Egyptian Ahmed Gamal Gabr, 41, became, with 332,35 meters, the first diver to ever descend so deep in combination with bottles and without assistance, the book said on Friday. Guinness World Records.
With some 15 hours of ascent in levels for a descent of only 12 minutes, this real human, medical and technological feat was achieved on Thursday, September 18 in the Red Sea, in Dahab off the coast of Egypt. A former combat swimmer in the Egyptian army, Ahmed Gamal Gabr is also an accomplished triathlete.
The previous record was unofficially owned by Frenchman Pascal Bernabé, who claims to have dipped 330 deep in 2005 off Propriano, Corsica. But the Guinness recorded only the mark reached, also in 2005, by the South African Nuno Gomes, descended to 318,25 meters, more or less in the same place as Ahmed Gabr.
Ahmed Gabr was trying to reach 350 meters deep according to the organizers. A depth where the risks associated with the pressure of the water are enormous since it reaches 36 bars, or 36 kg per square centimeter. Decompression accidents and other behavioral disorders (nitrogen narcosis or intoxication of the depths, nervous syndrome of high pressures) have already killed a previous world record holder, the American Sheck Exley, and nearly won other candidates.
According to the organizers, for the ascent, Ahmed Gabr used more than 60 bottles hung along a “lifeline”. These were filled with mixtures of gases - oxygen, nitrogen, helium and hydrogen - precisely dosed for each level by a team of French and Egyptian hyperbaric doctors. They patiently established, in four years of training and testing, dive tables specifically calculated for this diver.
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following the controversies raised by my humorous post, I am obliged to give these details which annoys me deeply. This newsletter is sent to a club that I would not say to respect their anonymity which is normal.
you're absolutely right, but it wasn't a tirade for the CMAS, it was just for fun. I know very well that their rescue is better done than the rifap for example having done several times the guinea pig ——— MDR and that the N1 is more complete. However, there is one point that annoys me with them is the lack of a stop, so when I dive on a 40-50 banana-style wreck I have to abort my dive to stay on the curve, and so on. he is like that all over the world ————- sometimes it annoys. Let's not talk about nitrox which are limited in depth and often I have to follow them and I don't have to. Don't worry about the wrecks it was also a joke because I never go into dangerous things and never of course without breadcrumbs, moreover I am as much as possible very vigilant on the danger of the nets. But you know very well that there are two kinds of wrecks, the real ones, and those that are safe and sunken for divers, which only represent a very relative danger. So I find it a bit silly when you surround yourself with the security of denying yourself a chance to get into it, especially since most of the time you do it with people who know very well. the combination was just for fun too. Admittedly, it is 2 different philosophies but it is clear that it is the PADIs which limit me in my dives and not the opposite.
In conclusion: when I wrote this post it was to swing a bit of humour where there is not often. If it slipped into something more controversial, I regret it because it was not my goal! one day I would do a post on the CMAS and I am going to attract the wrath of the said CMAS. But what has become of our France? nobody has humor anymore? is that why most people are sad? I know in diving there are two kinds of people, those who make a living from it and those whose hobby is. We cannot ask the latter to have the state of mind of the former, especially if they have a minimum of experience, then after all freedom of expression exists. Let us be careful to preserve this freedom which seems to me fundamental, which does not mean that we can say anything, except maybe in bulletins like mine who are not I repeat it again, a technical sheet or a plea for an organization for or against!
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