Talk:Audrey Mestre

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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.

Sections and infobox
I added some sections to. 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)

Question about sharing SCUBA
I read about this story in a book called Surviving the Extreme (Kenneth Kamler). It describes how the diver on the bottom, Pascal, saw she had a problem with the ascent bag and even used his regulator to try to start refilling it. He was the one who eventually brought her up. My question is, why didn't he just share his regulator with her when she was at the bottom? I assume he had enough air to do that and depressurize properly on the way up. My only guess can be that he was still trying to help her beat the record, and hence did not want to give her air (?) Was there any actual physical barrier to sharing his air at that time? Wilytilt (talk) 18:14, 12 December 2010 (UTC)


 * If a she had taken a breath at depth her lungs would have overinflated when she arrived at the surface, because of the change in pressure. http://www.usfreediving.org/freediving-gs-faq.htm.Steve K (talk) 01:03, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

what is her age
what is her age 72.255.3.61 (talk) 19:53, 19 February 2023 (UTC)

"won a gold medal in a 54-meter swimming competition at age 1 month" [citation needed]

No one will ever believe something like this without a citation. Have you ever see a one-month old? 2A02:1210:2642:4A00:4925:650A:C11F:AE17 (talk) 09:03, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

In media
She inspired the French movie Sous Emprise with the translated title "No Limits" 2022. 2604:3D08:EA85:DC00:CAAF:8677:29B5:4E5B (talk) 05:31, 4 July 2023 (UTC)

Death
12 or 15 October ? 95.237.30.97 (talk) 21:58, 4 September 2023 (UTC) on French and Italian wikipedia it is written 12 October — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.237.30.95 (talk) 20:39, 5 September 2023 (UTC)

NLT (No Limit)
From AIDA web site: NLT (No Limit) ... not NLT No-limits !

Sector No Limits and Sector are Italian wristwatch and diving watch brands by homonymous company, this has nothing to do with AIDA International's disciplines — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.237.30.78 (talk) 09:34, 24 September 2023 (UTC)