Extreme Dive Blue Hole of Dahab

About Tom and Pascal

Fantaseatec (Tom Steiner van den Ouweelen) and Pascal Bernabe (world record holder of the deepest dive on O.C. -330 meters)

has been organizing a deep trimix experience course in august 2009. They offer this program 4 times in the year, deep trimix "I" consist of dives up to 130 meters and deep trimix "II", up to 160-170 meters.

In August 2009 we had 4 students doing the dive, Raphael Courroux, Gregg van Loock, Nicholas Schiavon (on CCR Vision) and Guillaume Caillard, they where under the supervision of Pascal Bernabe.

For this dive that they always do at the same spot, the famous Blue Hole of Dahab, they dropped a rope to a depth of 170 meters between Bells and Blue Hole, there the drop-off goes to 175 meters and slowly drops on the outside to 217 meters!

For this dive they have been training for a full week, with a set-up dive at 60 meters, one dive at 100 meters, 110 m, 120 m, 135 m and finally the 167 meter dithey. They all had already experience in the 130 meter zone with around 30-40 dives @ 100 meters.

About The Dive to 167 metres

For the dive we had a total of 56 deco tanks, 8 twin-sets ( 12L, 18L,

20L) every diver was transporting all the gas for the all dive and the safety divers had all gases doubled for the all team in case of a problem.

There where 2 deep safety divers (Tom Steiner and Sebastien Kister) transporting the travel gases for the deep part, and @ 40 meters

We had 3 other safety divers (Ismail, Pritesh, Rick) transporting the deco gases,

On the surface we had 2 persons at the buoy, one surface support, one GP doctor and Dr.Heikel from the DAN chamber of Dahab.

The total amount of gas used reached 120'000 liters between all divers including the safety divers.

Total run time for the dive was 3 hours and 30 minutes.

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Tom and Gear Images

The Rigs for a 167 meter dive. Paul and Team Dive Planet will be catching up with Tom and hopefully Pascal in early February 2010 when they come to Dive in New Zealand. We are really looking forward to having some fun dives with these legendary divers capturing their trip on film here in NZ.