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Kay Dee
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Pardon. Failed posting, see next.
Kay Dee
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What Guinness did was stop reporting deep air records, not all scuba diving records.Sorry you don't seem to care about the truth.
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broncobowsher
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Michael Menduno published an article a couple years ago reporting on the theory that a men's deep dive record was achieved by cheating. It went into great detail on how that cheating could have been done. What I got out of it was that not only was the record accepted by Guinness, they supervised the attempt and built in safeguards to prevent such cheating. You can't just write to Guinness and tell them you broke the record.
Kay Dee
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I have never read it, but are you saying M2's article / theory was incorrect then? Dont suppose you recall / care to devulge the diver invloved in the record in question? I dont seem to recall (no surprise there though
) a depth 'record' that was seriously called into question, but then I've never cared much for records or followed them either.However, even if M2 was incorrect, it would'nt be the first time someone cheated / faked a dive to set a record, or claim a 'first', thats for sure!
But on the other hand, while a letter might not do, a Guinness representitive does not / is not present on every record set that they recognise.
I made no judgement on the article--I just mentioned it because of the belief expressed in this thread that Guinness does not record scuba depth records. The article described their efforts to verify the legitimacy of the record, clearly indicating that they do indeed recognize those records.I have never read it, but are you saying M2's article / theory was incorrect then? Dont suppose you recall / care to devulge the diver invloved in the record in question? I dont seem to recall (no surprise there though
However, even if M2 was incorrect, it would'nt be the first time someone cheated / faked a dive to set a record, or claim a 'first', thats for sure!
But on the other hand, while a letter might not do, a Guinness representitive does not / is not present on every record set that they recognise.
Ayisha
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I have never read it, but are you saying M2's article / theory was incorrect then? Dont suppose you recall / care to devulge the diver invloved in the record in question? I dont seem to recall (no surprise there though
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Kay Dee
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Karen van den Oever recently broke her own world cave diving depth record by a little more than 10m/33 ft at Bushmansgat cave in South Africa. The S.African cave diver conducted the 8 hour 14 min high-altitude dive on open circuit scuba, breathing trimix 4/90 bottom mix, and suffered mild High...
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