Alison Ellwood is an award winning documentary director, ... and “No Limits,” a film about the death of freediver Audrey Mestre for the new ESPN series Nine for IX. 20:39 . Audrey Mestre (11 August 1974 - 12 October 2002) was a French world record-setting freediver. An exploration of the life of Audrey Mestre, a world-class freediver, and the events leading up to the dive that ultimately took her life. Oct. 17, 2002 -- Champion free diver Audrey Mestre took a single breath, then dove 561 feet to try to try to break a world record. But the 28-year-old French woman did not make it back up alive. In October 2002, Mestre died in an early attempt to break the 160 meters no-limits free-diving world record that Tanya Streeter had established a few weeks before on August 17, 2002 (at that time this was both men and women's official AIDA record). In the final stages of her Ph.D., Mestre was drawn to Cabo San Lucas, where she became infatuated with free diver Pipin Ferreras, a Cuban defector whose dives had put him at the forefront of the sport. The footage was deeply disturbing. People, Sports. 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When I Googled it, the first thing that came up was a YouTube video of Audrey Mestre's death during her 2002 No Limits record attempt of 170 meters (558 feet). To be honest, the "sport" seemed crazy at best, maybe even stupid. The film, directed by Alison Ellwood, will be the fourth film to air in the series, currently broadcast every Tuesday night through July and August. On reaching 171 metres she opened the valve on the air tank to inflate the lift bag which would raise her rapidly to the surface but the cylinder had no air in it. No Limits – The Terrible Story of Free-Divers Audrey Mestre and…Pipin Ferreras. Join them and you will be notified about new & crazy videos, articles and innovations. However, a tragic 2002 dive changes their history. [6], Relationship with Francisco "Pipín" Ferreras, Francisco Rodriguez aka. In 2002, French free diver Audrey Mestre died while trying to plunge, on a single breath, 171 meters below the ocean’s surface — and beat a record set by Tanya Streeter. Audrey Mestre took the last of a series of deep breaths floating in the ocean off the Dominican Republic on Oct. 12, then plunged below the surface. There was lots of controversy surrounding Audrey Mestre’s death and two books have been written about the event: She began free diving at the age of 13 and scuba diving at 16. On October 4, 2002, with a dive team under her husband's supervision, she made a practice dive off Bayahibe Beach in the Dominican Republic to a record depth of 166 metres (545 ft). The dive was controversial and heavily criticised as the setup did not match common freediving safety standards. Directed by Hannah Storm. 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In October 2002, Mestre died in an early attempt to break the 160 meters no-limits free-diving world record that Tanya Streeter had established a few weeks before on August 17, 2002 (at that time this was both men and women's official AIDA record). A rescue diver arrived and inflated the lift bag with his air supply but the bag did not rise fast enough due to insufficient inflation, the riser rope being non-vertical and strong currents. [1] She was still in her teens when her family moved to Mexico City and, fluent in the Spanish language, she eventually studied marine biology at a university in La Paz, Mexico. Audrey had been married to 'Pipin' Ferreras, a world record free diver with cult-like celebrity status within the sport. A must to see in silence. Audrey Mestre Fansite. Tanya’s first world record was to 113m in NLT, a depth now matched in CWT by the women. On October 12th 2002 Audrey Mestre attempted to break the No Limits world record by diving 564 feet on a single breath of air. Directed by Alison Ellwood. Multiple FreeDiving World Record Legend & Mermaid August 11th, 1974 – October 12th, 2002 In Loving Memory to Audrey from Fans to Fans With Pascal Bernabe, Gido Braase, Matt Briseno, Nick Buckley. Much of the diving community critique targeted her husband Ferreras who had hurried an underfunded organisation for this record attempt, previously planned for a later date, notably with too few safety divers, lacking proper rescue equipment, with no doctors at sea and shore. As a teenager, Audrey Mestre suffered from scoliosis, but in those formative years, she discovered a passion for the ocean. Having completed practice dives even deeper in the weeks leading up to the record attempt, Mestre was prepared. Certainly, as recounted in No Limits, a documentary premiering as part of ESPN's Nine for IX series on 23 July, Mestre's death is tragic. 1.8K likes. [2][3][4] A dive that should have been no more than three minutes resulted in her remaining underwater for more than eight and a half minutes. Audrey Mestre was cremated, her ashes scattered at sea. No Limits (2013) - "The haunting story of Audrey Mestre, who died while freediving when someone forgot to fill the air tank that was supposed to bring her back up" [50:13] Close 7.1k After more deep dive practices, on October 12 she prepared to attempt a dive to 171 metres. She met the champion diver Pipin Ferreras and the two quickly became partners in diving and in love. Interesting documentary to learn about deep freediving. Mestre was not recovered to the surface until nine minutes into her dive, she had a pulse at the surface, but there were no medical doctors available to treat her and minutes were wasted with Ferreras attempting to resuscitate her in the water. Soon enough, Mestre moved from support team member to ardent free diver and then to a world-class competitor who outshone her husband. World’s Strongest Man: The Giants of Iceland. Years later, she discovered another reason to love the water: the elusive, often raucous free diver Pipin Ferreras. A final homage to Audrey Mestre. It is a light shone on French marine biology student Audrey Mestre’s entry into the “sport” of No-Limits free diving after meeting Francisco “Pipin” Ferreras, a relationship which pushed free diving to new depths and ultimately led to Mestre’s tragic death in 2002. You can select videos by topic, location or type. Through her battle with scoliosis, Audrey Mestre discovered a passion for the ocean that led her to competitive free diving. As Mestre follows Ferreras's almost spiritual quest to push his limits underwater, she moves from … The movie version of The Dive, the tragic story of “love and obsession” between freedivers Pipin Ferraras and Audrey Mestre, has taken a significant step forward with the apparent casting of Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence in the lead female role.