Coming clean.

Coming soon:
"Memoirs of an Insider". An expose on the tricks of the
trade and little and not so little secrets in the free diving arena/spearfishing world.:nono:Skeletons from "underwater closets" right up to the surface.
Stay tuned!

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Coming soon:
"Memoirs of an Insider". An expose on the tricks of the
trade and little and not so little secrets in the free diving arena/spearfishing world.:nono: Skeletons from "underwater closets" right up to the surface.
Stay tuned!

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A detailed analysis of "potential" fraud and the "possibility" of cheating in the freediving specialty of "No Limits".
Revelations in detail of what many suspected or imagined and some knew but no one dared to expose. "Whistle blowing" from the inside. Or just a theory?:confused2:
Keep posted.
A heavy conscience is hard to carry around living a suppressed lie.
Why now?
Reality or a hypothetical case? Product of a vivid imagination or a real fact?:crazy:
This will be for our members of all opinions to discuss and arrive to their own conclusions. Isn't that what this Forum is all about?:stirpot:

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Rick has a flair for the dramatic Lets hope his memory is still good and he'll come back to finish the thread

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You bet my dear Canadian friend! What life would be without drama?
By the way my memory is good, my souvenirs are all screwed up!:thumbsup2:

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Reality or a hypothetical case? Product of a vivid imagination or a real fact?
This will be for our members of all opinions to discuss and arrive to their own conclusions. Isn't that what this Forum is all about?
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Re: Coming clean.
For obvious reasons and in order not to offend anyone's sensibility this tale is going to be told in a hypothetical fashion. Inquiring minds will have food for thoughts. Let's call it a "A Royal Tale of Deep Deception" PART 1

In a hypothetical world it would go like this:

"Once upon a time in a Planet called Oceanus there lived this vain Emperor, king and master of "all things diving". HE, in his infinite vanity and ego maniacal ways, just had to be the absolute number one, always, compulsively, no matter what it would take!

In the beginning, HE had shined by his own legitimate luster, but as the years passed by and other thone seekers matched and surpassed him, his narcissism choke him.

He then devised a very simple and yet effective ruse for assured success on each and every new record setting "attempt". Of course the Emperor KNEW HE had it in his pocket before hand, full proof... here's HOW.

The royal chariot he used to plunge for assured ever deeper royal records :attempts" in his quest for ever lasting glory, his subjects acclaim, devotion and adoration was cleverly manipulated.
He rigged it in such a way that he would be filmed by this video camera ALL the way DOWN, and ONLY on his way DOWN, after all he was an athlete and could hold his breath that long.

Once arrived at the deepest part of the immersion, the royal chariot's upper part would then be released or separated by HIM from the bottom part which was the one that had the camera on. They would stay at the bottom, both the lower chariot section AND the camera.
Therefore, the camera would only be able to film HIM during the very few seconds of the beginning of the ascent following such a release or detachment of the ascending part of the chariot.

He had before personally rigged the ascending portion of the royal chariot making dammed sure the plastic HOSE that connected the "spare air" or "pony" air bottle used to inflate the royal balloon would NOT be secured inside the balloon.
He needed it to be LOOSE, ACCESSIBLE and (most of all) RETRIEVABLE for his trickery and deceptive ways to work. HE has done so, so many times before .Not a glitch!

He had even once punished one of his loyal servers when he tried to tie wrap it inside the balloon, precisely to avoid the risk of it coming loose. That didn't sit well with the Emperor, at all!
"Don't ever touch anything!" He yelled at the helper who, at that time couldn't understand why! Later, I knew why!
But the Emperor sure did.

After releasing the inflatable balloon or ascending section of the rigged chariot he KNEW he had a minimum of 150 to 200 feet BEFORE encountering the second deepest safety diver.
He would be ascending at first rather slowly, giving him more than plenty of time to execute his trick, all alone, all by himself, NO camera, NO witness. No one would be the wiser. He has confidence, you know the "practice makes perfect" kind of thing.

He then, could easily with one hand PULL OUT the air gushing hose from inside the balloon and, while the other hand held to the ascending balloon, at his leisure, HE could inhale as many times as he wished from it. The Emperor had successfully done it many times before! He has mastered and fine tuned the deception. So easy to inhale from a medium pressure second stage regulator hose.

The "blank or "dead" area from the deepest bottom safety diver he had left behind to the next one was free for the taking.All by himself... Those fool subjects and courtesans back at the surface will never know. How could them?

Once the deception deed was done and once he had replenished his lungs many times with compressed air enriched by the partial pressure of the oxygen he would only have to again replace the air-giving-helping hose back INSIDE the balloon and PROGRESSIVELY EXHALE the excessive air from the ascent on his way up.

The "illegal" surreptitiously originated expanding air bubbles would be masqueraded, merged into the massive "legal" bubbles coming of of the ascending balloon.
By the time HE would meet the second deepest safety diver, the fraud was already done.
"Fools", he thought.
And in his altered egotistic state of mind he even remembered that he even had the audacity of doing the exact same thing, this time in public, when he did the same stunt (yes the Emperor loved stunts!) in Alligator Island or was it called Cayman Challenge?
He had proved that one can inhale or breath compressed air at more than 200 meters! And safely surface. It was even on film.

This last time it was even easier, it was only 163 meters, but enough to be NUMBER ONE AGAIN!!!

Again he thought how HE had really always manipulated all those poor flattering, submissive and ignorant followers who would never know the Emperor's Reign was fake.
An Emperor made of "bubbles".

Keep posted or PART 2.0

Now, to each one his own opinion. After all, this is only a tale of a hypothetical vain, self absorbed and conceited Emperor in a watery called Planet Oceanus. Or is t it?