Record Breaking Practice in Progress!

Sean McGahern is in the water RIGHT NOW outside of Divewise and Dragonara house reef.
This is a biggie, an over-night stay if all runs smoothly. He's all set with gatorade for easy-squeeze re hydration and the ever-loved cheese triangles for nutrition and calories (without bathroom build up!). Sean is diving on 25% as this is deemed from experiment and practice to be the optimum mix to reduce nitrogen loading without too much Oxygen backing up in Sean's system.

Sean entered the water at 14:17 and we're due to send a replacement set down to him in a little over an hour. Obviously we deliver it far earlier than needed in case of emergency, make sure that the switch goes smoothly and then return the used twinset for queuing in a long line of Guinness World Record reserved twinsets at the filling station.

Tonight Divewise will be running night dive courses and pleasure night dives, with the added pleasure of dropping in on Sean and keeping him amused on his long stay.

Good Luck Sean!

T Minus 27! Preparation Time!

Don't get me wrong - you think we haven't been preparing for a llloooooonnnggg time before now?!

But as the first update on the record attempt, it's certainly the beginning of the big count down and time to get on to the final details of preparation.

Sean has been getting in the water with increasing numbers of cylinders as the practice runs continue to extend, hour by hour. It seems silly, but he's also having to practice some rather everyday exercises such as getting food and water into his system - not so everyday when you're underwater! Other little touches include fitting suits with pee-valves for convenience.

On the surface side of the team, Divewise are arranging staffing for the attempt and coordinating dive course classes to visit Sean on the reef with students! Imagine celebrating the final dive of your Open Water course by shaking the hand of a Guiness World Record attempt in the flesh!

There are all sorts of other events and entertainment being arranged - but we'll let you know more about these as they confirm... ooh, got you wondering now...

Watch this space - record breaking in progress...