June 2011
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Jun 8th
April 2011
2 posts
Eric Sets a New Personal Best in FIM - 84m
Eric tried his hand at Free Immersion at the Blue Hole and completed a nice 84m dive. He found that the narcosis was much worse due to the fact that FIM dives are much longer than CWT. He’ll be back in the water with his fin before the competition is out!
Apr 16th
Eric Sets New Canadian Record - 104m in CWT!
Eric Fattah set a new Canadian and North American constant weight record today, at the Vertical Blue Competition, with a depth of 104m! This makes him the ninth-deepest man in the world. Here is what he wrote about his dive: “I did my new breathing pattern and over and over went over the complex execution of the ascent that I have been working on lately. I packed vertically, got light...
Apr 13th
November 2010
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Nov 5th
April 2010
2 posts
Eric sets a new 100m Canadian record in CWT!
Eric Fattah set a new Canadian and North American freediving depth record in the Constant Weight With Fins discipline, becoming the first person to break 100 meters on the continent. The dive was made on April 27, 2010 on the final day of the Vertical Blue 2010 diving competition in Dean’s Blue Hole, Lond Island, Bahamas. Eric set his sights on 100m back in 2000, when none believed that such a...
Apr 27th
Eric sets a new 90m Canadian record in CWT!
On April 21, 2010 Eric Fattah set a new Canadian record in the Constant Weight discipline, with a depth of 90m, during the Vertical Blue invitational competition in Dean’s Blue Hole, in the Bahamas. Eric enjoying a victory conch salad on the shores of the Blue Hole In his own words: I got in the water around 10 minutes before my start time, just in time to watch Rob King ascend from an...
Apr 22nd
July 2009
1 post
Eric's training this summer
Date: July 2009 Location: Vancouver, BC Goal: Deepest cold-ocean freedive Result: 92m/300 feet July 15th Thanks to the great Vancouver freedivers who helped with my training: Tyler, Roberta, Pete and Matt.
Jul 1st
April 2008
1 post
April 2008 Vertical Blue Diving Videos
I was trying to explore the limits of FRC diving and be the first to register FRC dives in an international competition Vertical Blue Invitational Competition - 67m FRC diveDean’s Blue Hole, Long Island, Bahamas April 7, 2008 Vertical Blue Invitational Competition - feet first FRC descentDean’s Blue Hole, Long Island, Bahamas April 2008   Vertical Blue Invitational...
Apr 1st