Ahmed Gabr 200 metre dive HD - مصري يكسر الرقم العالمي للغطس بـ90 أنبوبة أكسجين في 13 ساعة

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• published: 23 Sep 2014
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مصري يكسر الرقم العالمي للغطس بـ90 أنبوبة أكسجين في 13 ساعة. Ahmed Gabr, an Egyptian technical instructor trainer, smashed on the 18th of September 2014 the world record of the deepest dive on open circuit. The GUINNESS BOOK OF RECORDSTM officially certified Ahmed’s record at a depth of 332.35 meters off the shores of Dahab, in Egypt’s South Sinai. Ahmed beat the previous official Guinness world record held by South-African diver Nuno Gomez, who dived to a depth of 318.25 meters in June 2005 off the coast of Dahab also. After months of intense training, both physical and mental, Ahmed started his descent on Thursday the 18th at around 10:30 and descended along a line to his intended depth of 350 meters. It took him a mere 12 minutes to reach the depth of 335 meters, where he collected a tag stamped and witnessed by the Guinness adjudicator and marking the max depth he reached. It is at that depth that, having started feeling tremors in his hands and arms, Ahmed secured the tag and decided to turn around and start his long and slow ascent back to the surface. During his 824 minutes long dive (a bit less than 14 hours), Ahmed only spent around 40 minutes alone in the water ; from the descent to his ascent back to 110 meters, where Jaimie Browne, his first deep support diver, was waiting for him to secure his empty tanks and provide him with new gas mixes to breathe. During the whole dive, Ahmed breathed mixes of trimix, nitrox, oxygen and air specially prepared for him and his dive profile by another tec diving instructor trainer, Sam Helmy, friend of Ahmed and the brains behind this successful dive plan. At 110 meters, Jaimie, who descended to meet Ahmed with a video camera, secured Ahmed’s tag and collected the evidence necessary for Guinness to validate the depth and potential record of Ahmed’s dive. The two divers ascended together until Jaimie could hand over Ahmed to his next support divers. Around 12:30, the surface support team received the first news stating Ahmed’s state (excellent) and depth and could at least relax a bit, and cheer. Surface operations were conducted by Oliver Watkins from two boats with military precision on support diver’s entry and exit from the water, and amount of tanks going in and out with which mix.