This whole event looks like a murder - not intentional, but a murder anyway ! The husband should havve been responsible and put in jail. Have no idea how he was not tried for the gross negligence ??!!
I think you are right. Somebody should have initiated cardiopulmonary support maneuvers right away. I am very surprised that no standard resuscitation kit / qualified ER physician seemed to be aboard. And even more surprised that nobody even started chest compressions..... in a cardiorespiratory arrest, delaying CPS for as little as 30 seconds affects survival chances. Sad.
I read about this story in a book called Surviving the Extreme. 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 at the bottom, before she started drowning? My only guess is that he was still trying to help her beat the record. Was there any actual physical barrier to his sharing his air?
aun recuerdo ese dia en las noticias en la manana, creo que esto fue un descuido, no revisar el equipo previamente, y como es posible no tener ningun soporte medico en mismo lugar, ojala que su merte no sae en vano y que se tomen medidas de seguridad para estas personas, mientras e ella la sigo sonando rip
Humans are not marine mammals. We're very limited in our ability to hold our breath and dive deep underwater. We're not adapted to doing it to extreme depth.
To force yourself to go to such depths, relying on artificial means like weighted sleds and airbags is pointless. What does this accomplish? Just to break a record and show you can attain a number higher than someone else? There's no practical purpose.
This is for people who have a death wish. I guess her wish was granted.
@DrBuzz0 Many things in life don't have a practical purpose. Why should they? It's something that we call a passion. Hard to comprehend if you haven't experienced it yet. There are some things that are such an enrichment to someone's life that it's worth the risk. It's not a "death wish", it's a matter of doing what you love whether it's dangerous or not. It's a matter of living your life to the fullest. In the end,we all die but most ppl hardly get out of their "practical" office, damn shame..
@DrBuzz0 Yeah i do believe this is pointless at all... i mean ppl who do things like that should've start to take their lives with a bit of respect, cuz using only one plan to make ur way out of such depths is kind of madness! what happen if ur plan goes wrong? Well we just sadly saw it...
@lehandropinheiro He was right there at the bottom. He had 3 tanks. Why the hell did he not give her his emergency octopus? Then it would have been about decompression....
@lehandropinheiro Wrong. You cannont give somebody air at a dept like that if they're holding their breath. It has to do with differences in pressure. If she tried to take in oxygen at that dept after holding her breath her lungs would have pretty much exploded.
@vrwhitlockable At 2:16 you see her try to fiddel with something, its a balloon, thats meant to inflate and carry her to the surface. it doesnt inflate properlly, because the gas cylinder thats meant to inflate it is empty... you see the balloon partially inflate and she moves ever so slowly upward... the balloon should have raced her to the surface extremely quickly....... at that speed, and from that depth... there was no way she could get back up in time.
This is a summary of her accident in 2002, for all free divers to learn from...
Audrey's attempt was to dive to 171metres and break her husband's, Fransisco 'Pipin' Ferreras' World Record.
Audrey descended to 171metres on a single breath of air and met her friend and chief technical diver Pascale Barnabe. Pascale is highly experienced on such deep dives and is currently rated as the deepest diver on scuba - 330 metres in the Mediterranean Sea.
But why push your body to the limits like that? What are you conributing to mankind? Confirmation of the fact that if you can't breath you die? I'm sorry if it sounds callous but I just don''t get the selfishness of it.
that can happen anywhere in the world..i think is not fare blaming the Dominican Republic for it...the organizers should know what she needed in case of an accident, we have lots of divers practicing everyday...it needed to be planned for any situation
Did they even try to give her CPR on the boat. That shoulda been the first thing to do and why didn't that diver give her oxygen when he saw she needed it.
a freediver cannot accept oxygen from a scuba diver since the pressure of the O2 unferwater is greater, hence the hi risk of her lungs bursting when coming back up.
Seems like such a pointless death. I can understand wanting to set records, but simply showing you can be hauled down to the deepest depth and shot back up? Such a pointless one with no real substance. Why put your whole life in such extreme danger for something like that?
A question: going down obviously the air in her lungs compresses, but would it have been possible for one of the safety divers to let her buddy-breathe off of them before she reached the surface?
The thing is, this doesn't seem so much like a sport as an endurance thing and like the thrill comes from risking death. Its not like free diving without a sledge which actually seems like it would be pretty wonderful. Seems she was a thrill seeker who wanted to show off. This gamble she lost. Her choice but its hard to think of it as a tragedy so much as an inevitable outcome from time to time in this "sport".
About the safety precautions on that awful day: They had 12 safetydivers:from the surface to a depth of 90 meters (all at normal air!). And one singlediver, Pascal Bernabe, at the depth of 171 m., where the slede had to come to a standstill. Bernabe was on mixed gasses. It would take Bernabe more then 4 houres to safely resurface (decompression time) from that depth. After reaching 171 m. Audrey was slowly getting back. At 120m. Audrey lost consciousness.
It took Bernabe 15 sec. to reach her(again). He brought here back up as far as he could. The safety diver at 90 m. wasn't at his station. So he came from 171 to almost 70 m. where he met Pipin who was coming down to therescue. Pipin lead the corpse to the surface.
Awesome sport. I think we should also start a sport where people see who can jump from the highest elevation and not die; or maybe who can stand in front of the fastest moving bus. Better yet, lets see who can survive the largest dose of heroin or cocaine. We can develope "skills" and pretend it was anything other than dumb fucking luck each time someone lives through breaking a record. Chick's husband is an ASSHOLE for allowing her to attempt this.
t go up with audrey because he already missed a deco-stop at 100 meter so he tight up a deco balloon to bring her up but at that moment Pipin found her and brought her to the surface. Then when they reached the surface he tried cpr but because of the pink foam streaming out of her mouth it didnt helped at all, there also wasnt any kind of emergency kit ready and when they reached the beach it was already to late. it's a freaking sad story that happend to such an experienced diver
there was no safetydiver at 120 meters because this normally was the place of cedric, but he died a few months before and there was decided not to replace him. So probably audry passed out at this depth en she lost grip of the balloon. a few moments later the safety-diver from the botom pascal noticed audry floting and the he took her up to 90 meters where the next safetydiver should have taken over to bring her up, but he went already up because he thought that the dive failed but pascal couldn
la morta è cosa da deboli,i combattenti non muoiono mai,vivono nella gloria eterna della sfida vinta,per il solo fatto di averla affrontata senza timore. gloria e ricordo immortale a questi moderni samurai.vivi per sempre.
Its still a weird story. Such experienced freedivers (Pipin and Audrey) and still the preperations were awful. How could there be such a big gap between the safetydiver at 165 meters and the next safetydiver. Really weird!
pipin Ferreras was a fucking bith. he didn't save her , try to stop her or nothing , all he wanted was her money. i read it in a book! fucking cuban "come mierda" jajaja XDDD
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trabaje con ellos y conosco a pipin dede casi toda su carrera y se que este lamentable accidente marco a pipin por el resto de su vida, nadie tiene culpa de lo que Dios hace,solo Dios save por que lo hace. pipin sigue siendo mi amigo.
She was taken on to the beach chair on shore just like someone getting back from the fishing trip having the boat not prepared for any kid of accident.
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Awful. now we can say Youtube accepts Snuff movies to be posted. It's a shame this awful video is even shown freely on Youtube. We're talking about someone's death here. And to whoever was in charge of the equipment on that dive, that person is just as responsible for Audrey's death as if he'd shot her with a gun.
I couldn't understand wat the problem was. lift balloon malfunction may not be the cause for death 'cause there are lots of escorting scuba divers around, and they can share O2 with the diver.
", if you hold your breath and go down, you cannot accept any air but surface air,"
not as strictly true as that. at extreme depth it's a problem, but taking a hit off scuba at lesser depths merely converts a free diver to a breath-holding/releasing scuba diver, and is done commonly enough. seen it with me eyeballs.
After reading Pipin's book I remember blaming him for her death.Then I read Serra's book and I became enraged against Pipin.Many people involved could have made a difference.The only person free of guilt should be Pascal Bernabe who knowingly risked his life trying to save her. It is a sad chapter in the history of Apnea.Where ever you are Audrey, I hope it's blue and there are no clocks.
This whole event looks like a murder - not intentional, but a murder anyway ! The husband should havve been responsible and put in jail. Have no idea how he was not tried for the gross negligence ??!!
msnklc 3 weeks ago
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adrianorr10000 1 month ago
I think you are right. Somebody should have initiated cardiopulmonary support maneuvers right away. I am very surprised that no standard resuscitation kit / qualified ER physician seemed to be aboard. And even more surprised that nobody even started chest compressions..... in a cardiorespiratory arrest, delaying CPS for as little as 30 seconds affects survival chances. Sad.
skarfan 9 months ago
debieron meter a la carcel al pipin, inutil y estupidos todos.como es posible, ahi se ve en el video que ella todavia jadeaba
furer72 10 months ago
descansa en paz .
superperruno1 1 year ago
I read about this story in a book called Surviving the Extreme. 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 at the bottom, before she started drowning? My only guess is that he was still trying to help her beat the record. Was there any actual physical barrier to his sharing his air?
CholeraSC 1 year ago
deeply sad, love to all of her family!
indecostill 1 year ago
aun recuerdo ese dia en las noticias en la manana, creo que esto fue un descuido, no revisar el equipo previamente, y como es posible no tener ningun soporte medico en mismo lugar, ojala que su merte no sae en vano y que se tomen medidas de seguridad para estas personas, mientras e ella la sigo sonando rip
colchas2008 1 year ago
who charge the ballon?
because if it is not totally charge it's normal that that the air is not enough to open the ballon.
moreover..the scubadiver that help her...why without a second ballon?
someone have to think to safety and not just to dive deep and deep...
grecale 1 year ago
fuck!!the fucking thing didn't work???damn, don't the check those thinks first?a bunch of amateurs where around this brave girl that day
ultrameka 1 year ago
Humans are not marine mammals. We're very limited in our ability to hold our breath and dive deep underwater. We're not adapted to doing it to extreme depth.
To force yourself to go to such depths, relying on artificial means like weighted sleds and airbags is pointless. What does this accomplish? Just to break a record and show you can attain a number higher than someone else? There's no practical purpose.
This is for people who have a death wish. I guess her wish was granted.
DrBuzz0 1 year ago
@DrBuzz0 Many things in life don't have a practical purpose. Why should they? It's something that we call a passion. Hard to comprehend if you haven't experienced it yet. There are some things that are such an enrichment to someone's life that it's worth the risk. It's not a "death wish", it's a matter of doing what you love whether it's dangerous or not. It's a matter of living your life to the fullest. In the end,we all die but most ppl hardly get out of their "practical" office, damn shame..
Fepl 1 year ago
@DrBuzz0 Yeah i do believe this is pointless at all... i mean ppl who do things like that should've start to take their lives with a bit of respect, cuz using only one plan to make ur way out of such depths is kind of madness! what happen if ur plan goes wrong? Well we just sadly saw it...
jnecchi 1 year ago
Did she died?
cosmosgod 1 year ago
@cosmosgod
she died, unfortunately
proudmarie 1 year ago
segun veo en el video no tenian ambulacia cerca , tuveron que trasladarla en una silla de playa sin ningun doctor que la auxiliara, que mal.
maritzafeliciano 1 year ago
Maybe i´m talking some bullshit, but, if her husband was with her all the time and he had oxygen, why not lend her?
nkleber 1 year ago
@lehandropinheiro that would depend on how much water she breathed in and how long she had been w/o oxygen.
vrwhitlockable 1 year ago
@speedofli then what happened she just ran out of breath? Could he not give her any oxygen before she passed out?
vrwhitlockable 1 year ago 3
@vrwhitlockable During the ascent she had already breathed in water, first aid would be useless
lehandropinheiro 1 year ago
@lehandropinheiro He was right there at the bottom. He had 3 tanks. Why the hell did he not give her his emergency octopus? Then it would have been about decompression....
moiandtoi 1 year ago
@lehandropinheiro Wrong. You cannont give somebody air at a dept like that if they're holding their breath. It has to do with differences in pressure. If she tried to take in oxygen at that dept after holding her breath her lungs would have pretty much exploded.
TheArcher6999 1 year ago
@lehandropinheiro breathed in water? think again. pls.
apneistaanonymus 1 month ago
@vrwhitlockable At 2:16 you see her try to fiddel with something, its a balloon, thats meant to inflate and carry her to the surface. it doesnt inflate properlly, because the gas cylinder thats meant to inflate it is empty... you see the balloon partially inflate and she moves ever so slowly upward... the balloon should have raced her to the surface extremely quickly....... at that speed, and from that depth... there was no way she could get back up in time.
Born2Die83 7 months ago
@Born2Die83 man...
apneistaanonymus 1 month ago
@vrwhitlockable oxygen? in that depth? man ...
apneistaanonymus 1 month ago
Audrey Mestre was the greatest free diver!
This is a summary of her accident in 2002, for all free divers to learn from...
Audrey's attempt was to dive to 171metres and break her husband's, Fransisco 'Pipin' Ferreras' World Record.
Audrey descended to 171metres on a single breath of air and met her friend and chief technical diver Pascale Barnabe. Pascale is highly experienced on such deep dives and is currently rated as the deepest diver on scuba - 330 metres in the Mediterranean Sea.
speedofli 2 years ago 2
Never seen this footage, only two people had it
ja1662003 2 years ago
when you push ur body to such limits there is no room for error
lilblitz 2 years ago
@lilblitz
But why push your body to the limits like that? What are you conributing to mankind? Confirmation of the fact that if you can't breath you die? I'm sorry if it sounds callous but I just don''t get the selfishness of it.
thegirl44 1 year ago
Poor lady, she choose the dominican republic to do this... that was probably the cause of her death...
ledasile 2 years ago
@ledasile
that can happen anywhere in the world..i think is not fare blaming the Dominican Republic for it...the organizers should know what she needed in case of an accident, we have lots of divers practicing everyday...it needed to be planned for any situation
dominicanochamploo 1 year ago
Did they even try to give her CPR on the boat. That shoulda been the first thing to do and why didn't that diver give her oxygen when he saw she needed it.
debie01 2 years ago
a freediver cannot accept oxygen from a scuba diver since the pressure of the O2 unferwater is greater, hence the hi risk of her lungs bursting when coming back up.
idea000 2 years ago
Because when you're under water for over 8 minutes, there are serious consequences...death is one of them. Oxygen doesn't just revive dead bodies...
baseballismylyf4 2 years ago
Seems like such a pointless death. I can understand wanting to set records, but simply showing you can be hauled down to the deepest depth and shot back up? Such a pointless one with no real substance. Why put your whole life in such extreme danger for something like that?
A question: going down obviously the air in her lungs compresses, but would it have been possible for one of the safety divers to let her buddy-breathe off of them before she reached the surface?
DrBuzz0 2 years ago
The thing is, this doesn't seem so much like a sport as an endurance thing and like the thrill comes from risking death. Its not like free diving without a sledge which actually seems like it would be pretty wonderful. Seems she was a thrill seeker who wanted to show off. This gamble she lost. Her choice but its hard to think of it as a tragedy so much as an inevitable outcome from time to time in this "sport".
KraftwithaK 2 years ago
About the safety precautions on that awful day: They had 12 safetydivers:from the surface to a depth of 90 meters (all at normal air!). And one singlediver, Pascal Bernabe, at the depth of 171 m., where the slede had to come to a standstill. Bernabe was on mixed gasses. It would take Bernabe more then 4 houres to safely resurface (decompression time) from that depth. After reaching 171 m. Audrey was slowly getting back. At 120m. Audrey lost consciousness.
enzotheca 2 years ago
It took Bernabe 15 sec. to reach her(again). He brought here back up as far as he could. The safety diver at 90 m. wasn't at his station. So he came from 171 to almost 70 m. where he met Pipin who was coming down to therescue. Pipin lead the corpse to the surface.
enzotheca 2 years ago
Awesome sport. I think we should also start a sport where people see who can jump from the highest elevation and not die; or maybe who can stand in front of the fastest moving bus. Better yet, lets see who can survive the largest dose of heroin or cocaine. We can develope "skills" and pretend it was anything other than dumb fucking luck each time someone lives through breaking a record. Chick's husband is an ASSHOLE for allowing her to attempt this.
Blaphtome 2 years ago
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ssteacherme 2 years ago
¡pienso que es así que triste yo conseguí frialdades cuando encontraron su cuerpo!! Señora Mestre de R.I.P
jadieboo19 2 years ago
So please..whats the point of diving so deep... pure ego?
Is there a wonderful view? wonderful sea life? something to see that no one else can see?
or just emptiness, silence and darkness...and mechanical devices to help you along ...
seems like a niche sport with few followers...
good luck to all who choose this sport...
xpez 2 years ago
you do not understand anything
JohnStecchino 2 years ago
um...I believe I was asking a question.
You can enlighten me and even persuade me to think otherwise.
xpez 2 years ago
t go up with audrey because he already missed a deco-stop at 100 meter so he tight up a deco balloon to bring her up but at that moment Pipin found her and brought her to the surface. Then when they reached the surface he tried cpr but because of the pink foam streaming out of her mouth it didnt helped at all, there also wasnt any kind of emergency kit ready and when they reached the beach it was already to late. it's a freaking sad story that happend to such an experienced diver
dezaander 2 years ago
there was no safetydiver at 120 meters because this normally was the place of cedric, but he died a few months before and there was decided not to replace him. So probably audry passed out at this depth en she lost grip of the balloon. a few moments later the safety-diver from the botom pascal noticed audry floting and the he took her up to 90 meters where the next safetydiver should have taken over to bring her up, but he went already up because he thought that the dive failed but pascal couldn
dezaander 2 years ago
la morta è cosa da deboli,i combattenti non muoiono mai,vivono nella gloria eterna della sfida vinta,per il solo fatto di averla affrontata senza timore. gloria e ricordo immortale a questi moderni samurai.vivi per sempre.
marinaioecontadino 2 years ago
rip
harpinos 2 years ago
what??? that was weird, no emergency strategy??? no equipment on the boat to help her ???
MadCherry 2 years ago 2
Try and find a way to think of it as poetic.
Somewhere there is a poem in this.
Something along the lines of 'she discovered her limits'.
daveyork0 2 years ago
Its still a weird story. Such experienced freedivers (Pipin and Audrey) and still the preperations were awful. How could there be such a big gap between the safetydiver at 165 meters and the next safetydiver. Really weird!
Thymo1991 3 years ago
je fakt skoda ze zemrela tak skvela freediverka
JerryHuk 3 years ago
Porque demoraram tanto tempo para iniciar a ressucitação cardio - pulmonar???????Que absurdo!!!
ubirajara2362 3 years ago 2
pipin Ferreras was a fucking bith. he didn't save her , try to stop her or nothing , all he wanted was her money. i read it in a book! fucking cuban "come mierda" jajaja XDDD
kevinsantana95 3 years ago
r.i.p. audrey
checazscrivo 3 years ago 3
No one atempted CPR ????????
thegun50 3 years ago
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trabaje con ellos y conosco a pipin dede casi toda su carrera y se que este lamentable accidente marco a pipin por el resto de su vida, nadie tiene culpa de lo que Dios hace,solo Dios save por que lo hace. pipin sigue siendo mi amigo.
NACHO O EL POCHO
macao027 3 years ago
Ok.. Pipin tb mi amigo..
lehandropinheiro 3 years ago
tem que ter mais segurança
rogerAist 1 month ago
No oxygen? No nothing on the boat?
She was taken on to the beach chair on shore just like someone getting back from the fishing trip having the boat not prepared for any kid of accident.
Do I see it wrong?
xatellite 3 years ago 11
@xatellite you do see it wrong
apneistaanonymus 1 month ago
Por cierto quitar este video y destruirlo seria una buena idea...
olifemo 3 years ago
Chapuzas mas que chapuzas...en fin que bellisima deportista perdimos,Pipin titiritero.
olifemo 3 years ago
audrey sei stata coraggiosa!
andro43 3 years ago
beautiful audrey....i will always remember her,,,,RIP.
grinder70 3 years ago
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Awful. now we can say Youtube accepts Snuff movies to be posted. It's a shame this awful video is even shown freely on Youtube. We're talking about someone's death here. And to whoever was in charge of the equipment on that dive, that person is just as responsible for Audrey's death as if he'd shot her with a gun.
countzaroff 3 years ago
"now we can say Youtube accepts Snuff movies to be posted."
there are and have been thousands of vids on YouTube and other places showing people dying. you're living in some doowah fantasy land.
BTW, i guess you watched this clearly labeled "A Morte de Audrey Mestre" vid. couldn't figure out what "Morte" might mean?
2ndAsstJizzMopper 3 years ago 3
I couldn't understand wat the problem was. lift balloon malfunction may not be the cause for death 'cause there are lots of escorting scuba divers around, and they can share O2 with the diver.
isirganus 4 years ago
actually the divers cannot, if you hold your breath and go down, you cannot accept any air but surface air, thats why they couldnt share with her
hoootlilboy 4 years ago
", if you hold your breath and go down, you cannot accept any air but surface air,"
not as strictly true as that. at extreme depth it's a problem, but taking a hit off scuba at lesser depths merely converts a free diver to a breath-holding/releasing scuba diver, and is done commonly enough. seen it with me eyeballs.
2ndAsstJizzMopper 3 years ago
@2ndAsstJizzMopper She was already dead by the time they reached a depth where this would have been possible.
Babspace 1 year ago
Babspace, why are you talking to me?
2ndAsstJizzMopper 1 year ago
@2ndAsstJizzMopper Why are you such a twat?
Babspace 1 year ago
Babspace, click the wrong button?
2ndAsstJizzMopper 1 year ago
@2ndAsstJizzMopper Nope. You're the twat in question.
Babspace 10 months ago
thats sad
zimmcat 4 years ago
very upsetting video
what caused the lift balloon to malfunction???
bluewhale18 4 years ago
After reading Pipin's book I remember blaming him for her death.Then I read Serra's book and I became enraged against Pipin.Many people involved could have made a difference.The only person free of guilt should be Pascal Bernabe who knowingly risked his life trying to save her. It is a sad chapter in the history of Apnea.Where ever you are Audrey, I hope it's blue and there are no clocks.
oscareichelmann 4 years ago 12
I knew the Pipin in Brazil and in the world of the diving incalculavel was a loss.
lehandropinheiro 4 years ago
i want to know if you can send me this video, i'm on medschool and we are doing a research about this case.. please contact me.. thank you very much!
kissnkiss 4 years ago
You should be careful what you believe. Serra's book is misleading and filled with outright lies.
Darkwingpuck26 3 years ago