Deans Blue Hole, Deadmans Caye, Bahamas

Kathryn McPhee and Kerian Hibbs have been invited to compete at the Vertical Blue Competition at Dean's blue hole, in the Bahama's alongside some of the worlds best freedivers. Both Athletes will set new NZ records in various depth disciplines during the 10 day competition.

Here you will be able to check on their pre-competition activity and track their progress during the competition.

Thursday, April 3, 2008

2 NZ records - and many more to come!

Today we saw another great dive by Kathryn who broke her own NZ record with a Constant Weight No fins dive of 41m and Big Dave Mullins pulled out a Big dive today - also breaking his own Constant Weight record - taking it to 108m. Both came up clean, however Dave did experience Narcosis - and was quite the joker because of it!

Both Kerian and William had good dives, however they both turned early - Kerian nominated 66m CWT and turned at 60.9m, and William ( pictured above during his warm up prior to his dive) nominated 101m FIM and turned at 97m - so these are still good dives - and Kerians PB in CWT.

Tomorrow we have more big dives ahead of us, Will has nominated 84m CNF - which will reclaim the world record he set last year, but which was later broken in October, Dave has nominated 111m CWT - pushing the NZ record out even further, Kathryn is going to dive without a wetsuit tomorrow , and is hoping for a 44m dive, with kerian attempting FIM at 73m - so it should be an exciting day ahead of us - and we are hoping for more good weather, rather than a return of the tropical storm we have had in the last few days!

Official results are being posted at http://verticalblue.net/news/