by Jorg Jansen
Sandi Bitenc 51,1 kilometers Underwater in 24 hours!
June 27, 2009 in Event, World Record by Jorg Jansen
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Sandi Bitenc from Maribor (Slovenia) started yesterday at 18:00 hours with his grueling quest to do as many meters underwater as possible in 24 hours time. Today at 18:00 he finished this taks with a distance of 51.100 meters. That is a totaal of 1022 laps in a 50 meter pool!
We do an interview in half an hour or so. Exact time will be published here soon! Will be live streaming.
LIVE INTERVIEW STREAMING ON INTERNET AT 18:45
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I received the press release below about the US National Freediving Championships that will take place in Hawaii from April 22-25. Looks like it’s going to be an interesting competition, so if you’re in the neighborhood, go for it! US National Freediving Championship set for April 22 through 25, 2010 at Freedive Paradise event. 
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Here I am, still kicking
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Thanks for all the support. I wouln’t have done it without. Jorg did a great job reporting, supporting and relaying messages. Reading through it today was very emotional for me.
Today I’m having a bit trouble sleeping. Good that I could sleep yesterday and regenerated a bit.
I’m planing to write a report about everything in the upcoming week and I will also try and answer all the questions you may have.
Kars wanted to know:
. In 24 hours I lost aproximately 1,5kg. My weight loss was kind of this:
How many KG did he loose, how many calories were burned?
I don’t know how many calories were burned, I didn’t know how to calculate them and I don’t trust the polar watches on this because they never show the same value twice
- 2008 April: around 81kg and around 11% body fat, doing mostly fitness and cardio only for maintaing condition
- 2008 august: around 76kg with 9% body fat, doing almost only cardio (swimming, cycling running) and prepairing for the IronMan
- 2008 december: around 78 kg with 10% body fat doing mostly fitnes again
- 2009 april: droped to 74kg with 9% BF still doing fitness, swiming, cycling running and of cours fining
- before the atempt: 73kg with 8% BF did only freediving in the last 2 months.
I don’t know what he put in his foot pockets to protect his toes, but I like to use a plastic bag to prevent blisters and have a snug fit
I tried plastic bags but didn’t like them. They got thorn, moved around, the feeling wasn’t good. The best thing I tried and also used it on the event was a lot of Xenofit Second skin creme.
Did he experience any Co2 narcosis? – Like one has during a 16×50m race.
No CO2 narcosis. In the rest periods I actualy felt hiperventilated and a bit dizziy.
I guess he will now sleep 24 hours
Slept for 9,5 hours first day, but couldn’t sleep good the second day… Still tired today.