“How do you feel when you are 201m under water?” – this is the most common question I have been asked.
The truth is that, when you are there, there is no time and space for feelings and emotions.
I have no fear from the water pressure nor the darkness, and neither from opportunistic underwater carnivore creatures.
The only thing I feel and it stays in the back of my mind is my insignificance in nature – subconsciously you know, that within a second a small mistake could cost your life and the life of your partner.
“How do you feel when you are 201m under water?” – this is the most common question I have been asked.
The truth is that, when you are there, there is no time and space for feelings and emotions.
I have no fear from the water pressure nor the darkness, and neither from opportunistic underwater carnivore creatures.
The only thing I feel and it stays in the back of my mind is my insignificance in nature – subconsciously you know, that within a second a small mistake could cost your life and the life of your partner.
“How do you feel when you are 201m under water?” – this is the most common question I have been asked.
The truth is that, when you are there, there is no time and space for feelings and emotions.
I have no fear from the water pressure nor the darkness, and neither from opportunistic underwater carnivore creatures.
The only thing I feel and it stays in the back of my mind is my insignificance in nature – subconsciously you know, that within a second a small mistake could cost your life and the life of your partner.
The rest you have to do is to follow step by step the procedures to the best of your ability and highest concentration. If a critical moment comes, you rely on your basic instincts.
This basic instinct of self-preservation in extreme diving is not genetically encoded, but it is the result of years of practice and experience, lots of training and rehearsals, until it becomes your developed software and almost like your autopilot.
The preparation for a similar dive is a long process and requires outstanding dedication, discipline and determination.
No one has gone down and resurfaced alive from similar depths, without many dives and trainings to gradually increase the depth.
If you have heard of someone who has done it without these, you must know – this is not the truth.
Similar extreme dives come rarely in your lifetime and very few people can share such experience. “ I.D.
The rest you have to do is to follow step by step the procedures to the best of your ability and highest concentration. If a critical moment comes, you rely on your basic instincts.
This basic instinct of self-preservation in extreme diving is not genetically encoded, but it is the result of years of practice and experience, lots of training and rehearsals, until it becomes your developed software and almost like your autopilot.
The preparation for a similar dive is a long process and requires outstanding dedication, discipline and determination.
No one has gone down and resurfaced alive from similar depths, without many dives and trainings to gradually increase the depth.
“How do you feel when you are 201m under water?” – this is the most common question I have been asked.
The truth is that, when you are there, there is no time and space for feelings and emotions.
I have no fear from the water pressure nor the darkness, and neither from opportunistic underwater carnivore creatures.
The only thing I feel and it stays in the back of my mind is my insignificance in nature – subconsciously you know, that within a second a small mistake could cost your life and the life of your partner.
If you have heard of someone who has done it without these, you must know – this is not the truth.
Similar extreme dives come rarely in your lifetime and very few people can share such experience. “ I.D.
If you have heard of someone who has done it without these, you must know – this is not the truth.
Similar extreme dives come rarely in your lifetime and very few people can share such experience. “ I.D.
14th of July 2015 was a big day for the SCUBA diving world. On that day, during training exercise in Dahab, Egypt, Ina Dimitrova descended to the unthinkable – 201m, which made her only the second woman in the world to successfully cross the frontier of 200 m.
The descent took 5 minutes and 40 seconds and the total dive time was 282 minutes. 7 types of breathing gas mixtures were utilised to reach the depth. Only LIQUIVISION computers were used during the dive. Her main safety partner diver has been Rosen Jeliazkov.
Her previous achievement has been – 174m recorded 10 months prior – in October 2014.
Special thanks for the given support to AVAIR, CNSys, Instrade Insurance Brokers, LIQUIVISION, Rosen Jeliazkov, Erik Brown, Aron Arngrimsson, Greg De Stanick, Vanessa Coronel, Jaimie Brown and Jenny, Kerstin and Andrea and Sellah.