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By Charlotte Boan
French technical diver, Pascal Bernabe, has set the new deep diving record at 330m; just weeks after South African Nuno Gomes reached 318m in the Egyptian Red Sea. Bernabe broke the record in Corsica on open circuit, with a descent time of less than ten minutes and at a cost of 529 minutes decompression.
The dive on Tuesday was the 41-year-old's fifth attempt at breaking the open circuit deep diving record, which he spent three years preparing for. Dive manufacturer Ralf Tech sponsored the event, which involved a thirty-strong dive team and 12 support divers.
The experienced deep diver completed the dive on trimix, carrying seven cylinders 20 cylinders were also placed on three decompression lines. According to Ralf Tech, Bernabe is safe and in good health following his 330m dive.
French technical diver, Pascal Bernabe, has set the new deep diving record at 330m; just weeks after South African Nuno Gomes reached 318m in the Egyptian Red Sea. Bernabe broke the record in Corsica on open circuit, with a descent time of less than ten minutes and at a cost of 529 minutes decompression.
The dive on Tuesday was the 41-year-old's fifth attempt at breaking the open circuit deep diving record, which he spent three years preparing for. Dive manufacturer Ralf Tech sponsored the event, which involved a thirty-strong dive team and 12 support divers.
The experienced deep diver completed the dive on trimix, carrying seven cylinders 20 cylinders were also placed on three decompression lines. According to Ralf Tech, Bernabe is safe and in good health following his 330m dive.
