exnewwavedivers
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Having previously set at world record deep dive to a depth of 254m, John Bennett did 308m not too long ago. What do you think?
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Originally posted by WYDT
I don't know the particulars of this dive but obsession with breaking "records" in this arena eventually gets the participants dead.
What's the point???
I sure with Sheck Exley was still around but his obsession with 1000ft made that impossible.
DSAO!!
Originally posted by Fetch
I agree that pushing the limits of the human body and life support equipment in deep/long/cold dives eventually gets many of its participants killed, however:
There are examples in almost every activity of people who are the best among the best, and push limits, thereby expanding science, technology, medicine, or whatever.
As to "why", although I'm sure it is a personal thing for each person, in general I suppose the answer to why mountain climbers climb is most appropriate "because it is there".
Jeff
Originally posted by newwavedivers
Ok, so doing 308m may be stupid for some people. However, would you say there is an analogy in doing extreme deep dive and let's say... car racing. Some people also think that race car drivers are out of their minds running at tremendously fast speed but it is in car racing that the evolution of modern car engines occured.
Originally posted by Burke
Ok, let me start out by saying that I know nothing of the equipment used to go that deep, but I would imagine that in extreme deep diving as in many other areas where people push the limits of technology and the human body, they are going to be coming up with ways to continually go deeper then before and that is going to mean new technology that may very well be of great use to the technical and even the recreational diver some time in the future. Have they contributed anything already, who got the idea to use helium, for example? Maybe it wasnt someone diving for records but I would bet that the people that are diving for records are looking for new and better gas mixtures that could eventually be used in recreational level deep diving.
That is just my 0.002 parts of a cent, like I said, I don't know jack about deep diving, I just know that when people break the limits they almost always come up with new ways to, well, break the limits.