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Free-diving champion dies in accident
by AFP
NICE: French free-diving champion Loic Leferme died yesterday in a training accident off Nice on the Mediterranean coast.
Leferme, 36, suffered heart failure when the rope pulling him to the surface at the end of a practice dive snagged, colleagues said.
“The rope got caught on something under the water, I have no idea what,said Cedric Palerm, who was on the accompanying boat.
Another diver immediately went down and found Leferme at a depth of around 20m.
“He’d gone beyond the blackout stage.
We gave him heart massage, got out the oxygen.
Then we raced to the emergency services in Nice.
We were there in 10 minutes,said Palerm.
Leferme held for several years the record of the ‘world’s deepest man’, achieving a depth of 171m without breathing apparatus in 2004.
In 2005, he was surpassed by Austrian Herbert Nitsch.
The accident occurred as Leferme trained to recover his title.
Competitive free-diving — or apnea — is an extreme sport in which contestants spend time under water without breathing apparatus.
Born in 1970 into a family of swimming champions, Leferme founded the Nice-based International Centre for Free-Diving in 1999.
He had two children.
“This was his first accident. He wasn’t a daredevil. He was extremely safety conscious,said Palerm.
- if the rope got snagged, then i think he is using the new pulley sistem in No Limits, not the old lift bag system.
- condolences to his family and friends.
- to zimm..thats the price you pay for something you love doing.
HAIL!HAIL!HAIL!
