I think the urge to go where no man has gone before is the very thing that keeps human beeing advancing itself...if that is something good or bad well may u be the judge...
Also it is very ... to think that somebody puts so much time/effort/money/risk in an endevor and after succesfully completing it he shouldn't be proud to state he had accompished smth nobody had before him...
Personally I'm happy that he came back alive to talk about it!!!
One last thing about records:
In my opinion a record should not count if the diver gets out of the water bent...ok he/she had the balls to go there but made mistakes in planning or executing the dive so it wasn't a succesfull atempt...
Of course this is a very hard statment considering that those dives are done beyond known limits of physiology...
That's the first time I participate in a threat like that...now I wait for the
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Sunny Greetings from the Yucatan,
Patrick