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Out of curiousity, how much does it cost to fund a record attempt dive thingy?

 

Yeah.. can you use vaycay money to fund yourself?





Hit up other sponsors?

 

[quote name='Baldy' date='Sep 12 2005, 05:36 AM']Out of curiousity, how much does it cost to fund a record attempt dive thingy?


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If it's just me diving then it's about 27-30k...if I dive with my female training partner www.yasemindalkilic.com we split the bill 50/50



Now, the next question you ask is....Why so much?



First thing is, we do the record attempts in Turkey. Main reason is because the team that we have worked with for the last 5 years lives on that side of the world. We are diving in the Med. so it's deep right off shore. Only a 10 min boat ride and you are in 500m of water. Visibility is great, no current, weather great, so it's just a plus to do the record there. Also, it's cheaper to fly to divers and a trainer to the location then to find a different location and fly a team of 12 - 15 people to that location.



Reason we use the same people is we know them and they have been trained in freedive rescue and are extremely reliable and professional....



So the breakdown of costs go something like this...(rounded up)



- Airline ticket for me and my trainer: 3k (approximately 1.6k each)

- Acommodations for 3 weeks 18 people: 30k with 70% discount for logistical sponsorship: 4k

- Boat rental for 3 weeks: 3k

- Mixed gasses for trimix divers (the deep safety): 2k

- Misc Airline tickets for flying divers from various parts of Europe to dive site: 3k

- Transportation: 1.5k

- Dive Equip Rental: 3k

- Salary for safety divers and video team: 6k

- Miscellaneous 2k.



Total: 26.5k



The miscellaneous fund usually incudes bringing in 2 freediving judges from the freediving organization which verifies the record as good (or bad) Diving FREE



The kicker is this. For me, I basically do it for no money....Just fun for me. If we manage to get some of the stuff on the list above as logistical sponsorship like the baot, gasses, dive equip, air tickets (maybe...airlines are cheap) Then I get to come home with a few k in my pocket.



So it's not exactly cheap. I managed to raise my portion of the money via sponsorship and many supporting frined...However, I was counting on diving with Yasemin and her covering half the expenses...Basically the way it's been for the last 5 years...Well, she can't seem to come up with the money this year....Basically what i'll end up doing is sitting on my sponsorship money until spring when i can go for it again.





Whoooo, that was long..



But back to the where to go thing. I have an uncle that visits Beliz quite a bit so I will hit him up for some info....Red Sea, Egypt is also a consideration.

 

Eilat, in Israel, would be very nice. Coral reefs etc.

 

Sorry to hear about the diving record delay. And whats wrong with Australia?

 

[quote name='Girlpowerrx7' date='Sep 12 2005, 06:57 AM']Sorry to hear about the diving record delay. And whats wrong with Australia?


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Nothing at all. We just been there already

 

one word-



TAHITI

 

[quote name='Rob x-7' date='Sep 12 2005, 10:13 AM']one word-



TAHITI


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Surfing there is awesome!



http://www.wavehunters.com/tahiti/tahiti.asp

 

Dave, I'm really sorry to hear about the dive.... that sucks major ***! I'll keep my fingers crossed that good things will happen for ya by Friday.



I wanted to go to Tahiti for my honeymoon.... looks awesome there. Didn't get married though (thank goodness!) so that'll have to wait until another time.