Hungarian diver Gusztav Riczler recently set a world record for the "deepest unaided scuba dive." Diving to a depth of 885 feet, the 37-year-old man achieved this feat in Egypt's Blue Hole. In the end, it took Riczler 14 minutes to reach the 885-foot-mark; the long return to the surface required 8 tanks, several decompression stops, and 8 hours.
[Via Scuba Geek]
3. That is funny: according to all my maps here in Dahab, the bottom of the Blue Hole is at 110 meters, not 268 meters (or 885 feet!). Anyway, if you do something, do it right and report it right. This is just going to attrack more adventure seekers that will loose there lives here...
Unaided: probably without brain or buddy?
Posted at 11:55AM on Apr 21st 2007 by pauline
4. Oh yeah..try diving into a "black hole" unaided! Tanks what tanks? you mean sherman tanks, Panzer tanks, Abrams tanks? And like the other coments posted: unaided what does that mean? Is there a video or photos of this major event? Can't be it was "Un-aided" right? Totaly bogus man, if hes hungry (hungrian) tell him to go to Turkey ok?
Posted at 7:23AM on Feb 17th 2008 by michael giovanniello
5. It seems like you guys have no idea about tech diving. Unaided means he carried all his scuba tanks (stage, deco, etc) and didn't have any help from other divers. That's quite remarkable! He had six tanks on his back plus the deco tanks.
This "hungry Hungarian" joke of Michael is jut miserable...
Posted at 2:38AM on May 10th 2008 by BoGyesz
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1. What the heck is an "unaided" dive? How does that differ from the other solo divers who've made these "records". Does that mean he didn't have any safety divers? Or that he carried all the bottles himself?
If it means he didn't have safety divers, that is like saying "longest NFL game played without helmet".
Posted at 1:50PM on Jul 10th 2006 by Bill Reals