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"By the time her husband was able to bring her unconscious body to the surface it was too late and she was pronounced dead at a hospital on shore."

According to the David Blaine special (which had a segment on Audrey), a rescue diver who had gone down with her was the one who brought her up. Video supported this statement. The statement above implies her husband was either down there with her or dove in to save her.

CDNN :: Free Diving - Death for Sale: Audrey Mestre's Final Dive by Francisco 'Pipin' Ferreras - Death for Sale

Carlos Serra, Francisco 'Pipin' Ferreras blamed for death of free diver Audrey Mestre - Francisco 'Pipin' Ferreras blamed

Is Time Running Out for the Mythic Man Fish?
(Depicts 'Pipin's' cavalier attitude toward safety which would prove fatal to Audrey Mestre in 2002.) - Is Time Running Out

There has been an detailed accident report including video's in the past at the internet. I have somewhere a more detailed reported, but here I will give what I know out the top of my head.

Audrey tried to start the lift procedure but failed in it due insufficient air in the tank at -171 and probably the damaged teflon line. One of the deep divers assisted her by sacrificing air from himself to try to fill the lift bag, which started with an slow progression. At about 160 meters, this halted. afterwards she started with an unassisted ascent. She lost conciousness at about 100 meters and wasn't retrieved by a the safety diver there, probably due narcosis. (Using air!?) She fell down again and was retrieved by the deep diver who risked his live by starting an ascending to 90 meters where she was picked up by Pipin.

At the surface she was aledgedly still alive but uncouncious and the lack of medical equipment made it difficult to asure an patent airway. In retrospect, we now know that depts of 170 meters and deeper are associated with an increased risk on decompresionsickness, especially when staying there for a long time. (thusfar one can speak of staying long at depth while breath-holding). In other words, even if the right medical support and personel was availble, it would be questionable if she would have survived.

[edit] Sections and infobox

I added some sections to Audrey Mestre. It would be nice to add an infobox, but I did not see a suitable one here: Category:Sports infobox templates. Does anyone know of a suitable infobox template for free divers? --Teratornis 05:47, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

I suppose an {{Infobox Biography}} would suffice. --Teratornis 05:49, 5 April 2007 (UTC)