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-8 Weeks – Bodrum dive training photos
Week 13 – Jamaica Diving Training
I’m finally getting to do some real diving. Real diving meaning not looking around enjoying the reefs or scuba, I mean some challenging deep freediving. The depth of our diving spot in Jamaica, 51 meters, is not that challenging in itself, but believe me Rudi has found ways. He’s quite creative when it comes to making any training challenging. He’s had me dive to 50 meters on empty lungs, spend bottom time, bring up heavy weights from the bottom, go down without weights in very buoyant wetsuits, so difficulty is never a problem. (more…)
“Return to the Depths” Video Series – Part 4
Week 13 – Where we finally get wet
Well, we have been a bit late to do last week’s update, since we just came back home, but here it is. We spent 5 days in Jamaica, 4 of which were diving days, for our first dive training since we started the record preparations and Yasemin’s first diving in over 4 years! We visited our friend and old trainee of mine David Lee, 5-time world record holder, all of them in the most difficult freediving category, unassisted constant ballast. (more…)
Week 13 – Jamaica dive training photos
Week 13 – Jamaica Dive Training Photos (more…)
Week 12 – Everything is going as planned!!!
Everything is going as planned. This is one of those phrases from the movies we laugh a lot at. Remember how in the TV show 24, after a few episodes where they take down the bad guy, at the end there is a “badder” guy that comes and says “no worries, everything is going as planned”. That’s how i feel now. Despite all our setbacks our plan is still in place. (more…)
Week 12 – “Relax! You’re NOT loosing your shape!”
Hello all and welcome back!
It’s been now 2 weeks since Yasemin was bitten by the dog, and although the first week we were able to salvage something and do some of the workouts we had planned, I really knew that it would only be on the 2nd week when she would start getting back to normal. (more…)
“Return to the Depths” Video Series – Part 3
“Return to the Depths” Video Series – Part 2
Week 11 – A tough week behind us
As Rudi wrote in his weekly report (click here to read), we had a dog bite incident this past week. It happened so fast, the dog sneaked up behind me and went for my foot real fast looking like she was hunting an animal down. The moment I reacted she ran away, but the damage was done already. It was tough to stop the bleeding at first and all I was thinking about was how this would affect the training. (more…)
.jpg "Celebrating the 86 meter dive in honor of the Turkish Republic's 86th Aniversary")
.jpg "Analyzing the dive with Rudi.")
.jpg "I love those Turkcell's hats with their bee antena!")
.jpg "Zero!!! The descent begins...")
