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Re:The Disappearance of the World’s Greatest Free Diver by smt88 on Saturday August 08, 2015 @12:47PM (#10027838)
What about the fact that she was wearing weights? Could that have caused a lateral current to affect her vertically?
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Re:The Disappearance of the World’s Greatest Free Diver by soci on Saturday August 08, 2015 @01:03PM (#10027896)
Weights are small pieces of lead used to compensate the wetsuit buoyancy. They don't have a big surface so they don't have hydrodynamic impact.

In some freediving disciplines weights may be used to go deeper in less time, but then you leave the weight at the bottom, otherwise you would not be able to come back to the surface.

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Re:The Disappearance of the World’s Greatest Free Diver by smt88 on Saturday August 08, 2015 @02:36PM (#10028221)
I think the article I saw said that they believed she'd lost consciousness (somehow due to the current) and been unable to remove the weights. Could that explain it?
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