5:03 William didn't wear the velcro to fix the tag therefore he chose voluntarily to skip it. Otherwise the swim up, with tag in the hands, would have been a huge problem.
One can also get a yellow card for not diving within certain period of time after the official top has been announced. Not sure if the rule includes all disciplines though.
When listening with headphones, when you are talking in front of the camera , it only comes through the left side . Just a heads up. Thanks for the video
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I don't want to downplay the extreme dedication, passion, HARD work, training, mental, almost superhuman toughness that is needed to reach this level, (apart from the teamwork, coaching etc.), but as athletes seem to be approaching their actual limits or maybe even the limits of what's humanly possible (for now, who knows?), I wonder if freedivers in general, competition organizers, schools, agencies (Aida, CMAS, SSI, etc) ask the question of when it will be too much? Surely, for every athlete there will always be one dive that is too deep/long. I mean: are there people in the freediving business that are genuinely and actively thinking about the ethical implications of these extreme dives? Sure, you can say you should not interfere with an individual's passion. And breaking records is part of any sport. But the thing is: new records in a lot of sports don't involve putting yourself in an environment that is as hostile as the environment in freediving where you can not breathe: depth records entail, by definition, much bigger risks as the freediver puts him/herself further and further away from the safe environment (the surface with fresh air). Do you know of any ethical committees that are involved in thinking about this and about how to deal with this? One day, there will be a specific depth that is simply not doable without blacking out, even for the world champions. Are they just going to wait, sit back and let it happen, or ... ? Is anyone actually making these considerations? Asking honestly and openly.
On one hand, I agree with you. On another - at least at this moment freediving competition on any scale is not that dangerous. You can check statistics and find out that on all competitions combine (all years), there was only one fatality. I think, some times in the future this question can be asked. But at this moment I wouldn't put sport freediving in "extreme" category (if we are talking about possibility of life threatening accident).
While I wouldn't want a family member doing it there are quite a few very dangerous recreational hobbies. Rock climbing, especially free rock climbing, base jumping and wingsuiting, hell even regular skydiving probably has had many fatalities. If a person is of sound mind I feel they should be able to live their life how they want
If you check the rules for the depth competition, both organizations have specific rules limiting the athletes’ announced performance. There are protocols and clearly nobody can go to extreme depth in their first day. And I doubt if there are any athletes wanting to do a blackout dive in a comp, so they will calculate how many meters they need and balance the pros and cons. But after all, the competition is set to bring the record deeper so the deeper they go the more likely danger may happen. It’s part of the game. That’s why the comp need to have emergency plans and doctors etc on site.
