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Hopefully he'll surface both alive and intact... the rest is pointlessI think he is underwater now. A long dive for sure, he will surface triumphantly tomorrow morning!
Where did you find that information? Google doesn't seem to have anything newer than the original article. That article has already been shown by Andy Davis to have major factual errors (or as we say in the south "It was a load of ****".)I think he is underwater now. A long dive for sure, he will surface triumphantly tomorrow morning!
Egyptian diver Wael Omar survives astounding dive to 404.4 meters on open circuit scuba equipment, surpassing his original goal of 400 meters. The record breaking dive lasted an astonishing 22 hours and 22 minutes, surface to surface. The dive started at 7:36 on the morning of March 31st and concluded early in the first hours of April.
When asked how he managed such a seemingly impossible feat, Wael exclaimed that he held his breath for the portion of the dive that was below 360 meters, conducting that part of the dive in apnea to stave off the effects of high pressure nervous syndrome. Wael says that this is his last planned scuba depth record and that his next endeavor will be to settle down and marry his girlfriend Shadya. "Once is enough for something like this."