Leigh Cunningham in 205m Dive

[Mr T.]

Diving Pair Claims World Record with 205m Plunge; 'It is a Dice with Death'

Red Sea, Egypt (January 19, 2006) A diver from Borehamwood has plunged a death-defying 205 metres underwater to set a new world record.

Into the deep: Leigh Cunningham

Leigh Cunningham, 37, now carries the record for the deepest wreck dive, after making it down to a sunken cargo ship in pitch-black waters in the Red Sea, Egypt, last month.

His mother Deanna Cunningham, of Stratfield Road, Borehamwood, said she was proud of her son, who now lives in Egypt, but he was mad' to do it. "It is a dice with death," she said. "Nobody's ever been that deep before. It's unchartered territory. You need a back-up team of 50 people with nine doctors."

Mr Cunningham, who shared the record with his co-diver Mark Andrews, dives with a set of five gas tanks containing mixtures of helium, oxygen and nitrogen, which enables him to descend deeper than with pure oxygen. If he had breathed gas from the wrong tank, it could have been fatal.

It was the pair's third attempt at the record, which was made all the more difficult by fierce underwater currents Mr Cunningham's mother said he took up diving after being made redundant 13 years ago and has never looked back. "With his redundancy pay he decided to travel to Israel and got a job as a tour guide on a glass-bottom boat," she said. "Then he got sponsorship to dive, and now he's one of the best divers in the world."

Mr Cunningham is the second Borehamwood man in recent months to capture a diving world record in August, Will Goodman, 28, of Stapleton Road, stayed underwater for 24 hours to complete the longest open-water dive.

source: http://www.borehamwoodtimes.co.uk

[Red Sea Shadow]

Third world record in the Red Sea in the recent months.
On 13 June 2005, South African technical diver Nuno Gomes broke the world deep SCUBA diving record when he reached a depth of 318.25 meters (1,044 feet) in Dahab.
on 26 June 2005, Patrick Musimu broke the deepest freediving world record in the No Limit category at 200.3 meters (657 feet) in Hurghada.

[deeperthandeep]

wow hats of to you, iam interested and keane to understand what sort of gas mixes and run times you gettin on a dive like that i understand if you do not wish to give that sort of info

[Red Sea Shadow]

Originally Posted by deeperthandeep

wow hats of to you, iam interested and keane to understand what sort of gas mixes and run times you gettin on a dive like that i understand if you do not wish to give that sort of info

I don't know. You can have more info at http://www.nunogomes.co.za

[Mr T.]

Originally Posted by deeperthandeep

wow hats of to you, iam interested and keane to understand what sort of gas mixes and run times you gettin on a dive like that i understand if you do not wish to give that sort of info

Old fashioned concept though it might be - would you please use the tried, tested and trusted method of expressing yourself on these boards and use at least some form of puncutation? Otherwise, you might get mistaken for a recently binned idiot called Denalex48

[Bantam]

Originally Posted by Mr T.

Old fashioned concept though it might be - would you please use the tried, tested and trusted method of expressing yourself on these boards and use at least some form of puncutation? Otherwise, you might get mistaken for a recently binned idiot called Denalex48

Did someone leave this car outside?


Just Checking
Wondered if we'd had someone wandering in from a different forum.....

[Lou]

Originally Posted by Leigh's mum

unchartered territory

Nothing to do with the dive, but I wish someone would tell his mum that this phrase refers to maps and not bookings

ps Don't get the car???

[Bantam]

Originally Posted by Lou

Nothing to do with the dive, but I wish someone would tell his mum that this phrase refers to maps and not bookings

ps Don't get the car???

I was in response to Mr T's comment about the chap from Wigan who seems to have lost both his dictionary and any of the punctuation from his keyboard which seemed to have gone missing. I was enquiring as to whether the nice gentleman had left his car outside....
Actually I think I was being a bit of an arse and assuming because his textual habits are very poor, that he might be a chav, but that's probably very wrong of me.

[Lou]

Oh, it's changed. I liked the first one better. Very bling.

[Bantam]

Originally Posted by Lou

Oh, it's changed. I liked the first one better. Very bling.

On reflection, you're right.

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