Diving Records...Fall 2007
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Stephen Weir
Stephen Weir is a well-known Toronto based communicator. He has been writing and taking photographs for Diver Magazine for almost 30 years.
By Stephen Weir
Published on 11/8/2007
The ongoing chronicles of underwater feats ranging from the impressive to the dubious. The rush to establish new underwater records has subsided, at least temporarily, as winter approaches in the Northern Hemisphere. However, there were a number of subsurface records set in the fall of 2007.
The ongoing chronicles of underwater feats ranging from the impressive to the dubious. The rush to establish new underwater records has subsided, at least temporarily, as winter approaches in the Northern Hemisphere. However, there were a number of subsurface records set in the fall of 2007. The ongoing chronicles of underwater feats ranging from the impressive to the dubious.
The rush to establish new underwater records has subsided, at least temporarily, as winter approaches in the
Northern Hemisphere. However, there were a number of subsurface records set in the fall of 2007 including:
§ In September a group of a divers set an underwater record in Italy by living underwater for two weeks. The divers were taking part in an experiment to see if people can live below the surface of the sea for an extended period of time.
§ Sara Campbell is a newcomer in the field of competitive free diving, and after only a year in the sport she has set a world's record. The 35 year-old British public relations expert and part-time aerobics instructor took part in a competition in Egypt, where she set a world record of 90 metres (295ft) in the "constant weight" freediving class. Using a mermaid style single fin flipper, Campbell made the dive in 3min 46sec. According to the British press, the 90 metre record was just one of three new world records she set over the weekend match.
§ Using a weighted sled, free-diver Patrick Musimum was able to reach a depth of 209.6 (629ft) metres without the use of scuba. The dive, which was reported by the Globe and Mail newspaper, was not sanctioned by any world freediving organization, the dive mark is considered unofficial.
§ It has got to be a record of some sort! A French company raised crates of red and white wine from the northern coast of France earlier this fall. The wines had been left on the bottom of the ocean for a year. 600 bottles (300 red and 300 white) were put in the ocean to see if wine stores better in water or in a dry wine cellar. According to thescotsman.com, after opening the barnacle covered bottles, the wet wines were found to have aged better than spider web covered land bottles of the same vintage.
§ Should we toast the memory of Indian spiritual leader Sri Chinmoy, who died of a heart attack earlier this month with wine from the underwater cellar or with a can of Guinness beer? Chinmony was best known for achieving feats of strength and endurance will preaching peace. He has led an annual 3,100mile marathon for many years. The swami inspired devotees to set world records of their own. One of his followers was Ashrita Furman, who holds the Guinness World Record for most Guinness World Records broken (70) and set (166). He balanced the world's tallest stack of milk crates on his chin (weighing 93 pounds, seven ounces) in June 2006 and as noted in this web-column hula-hooped underwater for two minutes and 38 seconds in August of this year.
§ BioShock, a new Xbox game hasn't sent a record, but, it has been named the best game for 2007 at the recently held British Academy Video Game Awards held earlier this month in London, England. BioShock is a very violent science fiction game where the player has to battle, among many other foes, "scary Little Sisters - genetically mutated little girls with giant robotic minders called Big Daddies". What makes BioShock of interest to Divermag.com is that the game is all set underwater in Rapture, an Art Deco undersea city built by a crazed genetic experimentalist.
Northern Hemisphere. However, there were a number of subsurface records set in the fall of 2007 including:§ In September a group of a divers set an underwater record in Italy by living underwater for two weeks. The divers were taking part in an experiment to see if people can live below the surface of the sea for an extended period of time.
§ Sara Campbell is a newcomer in the field of competitive free diving, and after only a year in the sport she has set a world's record. The 35 year-old British public relations expert and part-time aerobics instructor took part in a competition in Egypt, where she set a world record of 90 metres (295ft) in the "constant weight" freediving class. Using a mermaid style single fin flipper, Campbell made the dive in 3min 46sec. According to the British press, the 90 metre record was just one of three new world records she set over the weekend match.
§ Using a weighted sled, free-diver Patrick Musimum was able to reach a depth of 209.6 (629ft) metres without the use of scuba. The dive, which was reported by the Globe and Mail newspaper, was not sanctioned by any world freediving organization, the dive mark is considered unofficial.
§ It has got to be a record of some sort! A French company raised crates of red and white wine from the northern coast of France earlier this fall. The wines had been left on the bottom of the ocean for a year. 600 bottles (300 red and 300 white) were put in the ocean to see if wine stores better in water or in a dry wine cellar. According to thescotsman.com, after opening the barnacle covered bottles, the wet wines were found to have aged better than spider web covered land bottles of the same vintage.
§ Should we toast the memory of Indian spiritual leader Sri Chinmoy, who died of a heart attack earlier this month with wine from the underwater cellar or with a can of Guinness beer? Chinmony was best known for achieving feats of strength and endurance will preaching peace. He has led an annual 3,100mile marathon for many years. The swami inspired devotees to set world records of their own. One of his followers was Ashrita Furman, who holds the Guinness World Record for most Guinness World Records broken (70) and set (166). He balanced the world's tallest stack of milk crates on his chin (weighing 93 pounds, seven ounces) in June 2006 and as noted in this web-column hula-hooped underwater for two minutes and 38 seconds in August of this year.
§ BioShock, a new Xbox game hasn't sent a record, but, it has been named the best game for 2007 at the recently held British Academy Video Game Awards held earlier this month in London, England. BioShock is a very violent science fiction game where the player has to battle, among many other foes, "scary Little Sisters - genetically mutated little girls with giant robotic minders called Big Daddies". What makes BioShock of interest to Divermag.com is that the game is all set underwater in Rapture, an Art Deco undersea city built by a crazed genetic experimentalist.