Talk:Patrick Musimu

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Removed:I think 'performance' should be used instead of 'prestation'.

>His dive does not constitute a formal world record, because he has broken all >ties with the worldwide freediving organization AIDA.

AIDA is not *the* worldwide freediving organization. There are others: FREE, IADFSA (or how is it spelled). There is (or still recently has been) much of fight between these. There were disputes between AIDA and Mr. Musimu about the safety of some of AIDAs regulations (Musimu would probably not do the dive under current AIDA rules, he considers them dangerous for this kind of depths!). He explains very reasonably on his website. These troubles are well known in the free diving community and have been a subject of dispute for a long time. For example another top free diver, Francisco Ferreras, also failed to agree with AIDA and this led to the creation of IADFSA with its own ``official records which AIDA did not recognize and vice-versa.

Unless we are able to point to a basic article about these internal fights, which provide a context to such information, I don't think it's good or objective to use the word ``official in any way related to free diving.

As for the credibility of the depth reached, it was verified by a company who makes the computers that are also used by AIDA. There is a video of the whole dive. Patrick Musimu reached the depth and he didn't blackout or samba or anything after he surfaced.

I'm not an expert on freediving. But this is my understanding of the situation.

--hhanke 16:12, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] prestation

I found a definition of prestation which identified it as an African word meaning a kind of forced labour.

Mr Musimu may be of African origin, but there's no indication that he's forced to dive to these extraordinary depths.

I agree with the earlier suggestion that 'prestation' should be replaced with 'performance' Pavium 13:09, 24 October 2006 (UTC)