Sorry a bit late, I am still very tired from last night's after party. I was the first to be thrown in the pool by my good friend Debby and I had to work very hard to detach her from Johan's leg and throw her in. I would not have been able to if I did not have help from Alexey. THANK YOU!!!

In the beginning of the struggle I was able to move the two of them about 2.5 M, then because I was I was soaking wet I slipped and fell on the tile. I won, that was the point, haha.

Later my body was very sore and tired and I was stretching at the party to relief the pain, anyway more details to come later once I recover....

There are no world records announced, but it should be a very exciting day regardless.

The women's category we see some very safe announcements from Natalia and Sara, fighting for a bronze medal, Misuzu, Klara and Jarmila are all within one meter of each other. Misuzu is announcing just one meter more then her current national record, Klara has added 11 M to her dive from the qualifications, and I believe Jarmila's personal best is 70M.

The men on the other hand have some very big announcements, all are deeper then they have ever done in competition except Herbert. It will be nice to see all white cards in their category, however I anticipate seeing some big fights on the surface. I believe all of their announcements are within their individual capacity, however with competition stress that may not be the case. We will see tomorrow...

I had an incredible day today, a clean dive to 54M, a bronze medal, and good times with friends the rest of the day.



Congratulations to all of my fellow competitors, today was an exciting and successful day.

It has been a great dive day at the blue hole, beautiful visibility. I saw some great dives today. A disappointing day for Ryuzo, he had an entire film crew here to film him and he had a sticky ear and had to turn early at 90M. Johan finally made the 100M, so it will be interesting to see what he does in the final.
I must eat breakfast now!

I think I am doing all right, 10th in the world in CWT and 5th in CNF going in to the finals!!!

It is surprising how well they go together. I’m not sure if I should be thanking or cursing the Japanese film crew for introducing to the best cheesecake that I have ever had. Immediately after I first tried it, within a few days I had an entire cheesecake in my fridge, and now for about two weeks, there has not been a day when I haven’t had cheesecake. Maybe it is was conspiracy?

Something crazy must have been happening for the women in the CNF qualification heats. I think it is possible that we were all under this cheesecake spell and many of us didn’t anticipate the effect this delectable dessert was going to have on our performances…

It is strange that 4 of the 6 deepest announced had issues on their dives. Hmmm I smell conspiracy, I think I will confront the film crew about this. Not that I am complaining since two of my biggest competitors had black outs at depths which should have been very easy for them. Over half the women had problems with their dives, there were more BO with 13 competitors then with the men with 27.

Personally I had a very sloppy dive, I got distracted by all of the underwater cameras, I think I passed four videographers before I passed 35 meters, not counting all of the photographers, so I was slightly distracted and not paying attention to my equalization. I swallowed my mouthful and that was my last equalization. I was in a lot of pain and I thought about turning early. I had my hand on the line and was about to turn when I looked down and saw the plate and decided to go a few more meters. I got the tag and made my depth, but I lost 5 points for grabbing the line.

Thank you to my coach Alexey, see us below, I felt very relaxed before my dive and had a nice easy warm up. I know what to expect tomorrow having to share my time in the deep with so many other people, so hopefully my ears and sinuses will be happy with me at 10:58 when I return to the surface.


It was an all around fantastic day for the men. The sun was shining all day, 11 national records, 7 men made the finals because of nice planning by the French team. It will be an interesting finals, I wonder how many of them were diving close to their limits? A few of the top seven looked very strong upon surfacing and others were a little shaky.

The woman finalists on the other hand, I do not predict seeing any big surprising, although rumor has it that Niki has her eye on the world record. Natalia is sure to do a solid clean deep performance, maybe even breaking her world record, Junko and Brigitte will likely add to their records, however there is always a chance that they may have a trick up their sleeves. Olga was pleasantly surprised to make it into the finals and I expect to see a clean, solid dive from her, slightly deeper then she did in the qualifying heats.

Today I rested and I was able to eat only one piece of cheesecake, this is what I look like two times a day, when I answer the call from the fridge…