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COUSTEAU'S FOLLOWERS: ARMENIAN DIVERS SET WORLD RECORD IN NORTHERN HEMISPHERE
Siranuysh Gevorgyan
ArmeniaNow
26.07.11
Armenian divers have managed to set a world record in the Northern
Hemisphere. They were able to submerge and explore the bottom of an
Aragats mountain lake located 3,207 meters above sea level.
Although three Armenian divers went only 12 meters deep in Stone Lake,
it does not diminish their victory. Member of the Armenian Extreme
NGO Chairmanship Board Armine Harutyunyan, who participated in the
organization of the expedition, said at a meeting with media that at
the kind of altitude diving that deep in a lake can be considered to
be a 'real extreme' for any diver, as human body is not accustomed
to such high pressures.
(The world record in scuba diving is 127 meters).
According to Armenian divers, before that in similar conditions
an attempt at diving was made by famous French traveler and ocean
explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau's team at Lake Titicaca in the Southern
Hemisphere (South America) in 1959.
The expedition was organized by the Ayas Nautical Research Club and
the Armenian Extreme NGO. The divers were international category
instructor Rafael Lazarian, Ayas club chairman, Kilikia Ship captain
Karen Balayan, Emergency Situations Ministry special diving group
commander Artak Elmasakyan.
The event took place on July 21, at the moment of diving the
temperature of the lake water on the surface +5 degrees Celsius, and
only +3 on the bottom. The divers stayed underwater for 80 minutes,
although there had originally planned to stay there for 40 minutes.
According to Armenian Extreme organization doctor Gevorg Shahsuvaryan,
the divers were subject to medical examination before and after the
dive and it turned out that their organisms managed to return to
normal within only an hour.
Armenian divers highlight the importance of the expedition in the
sense that it opens the way for all researches to be made in difficult
conditions in the future.
Siranuysh Gevorgyan
ArmeniaNow
26.07.11
Armenian divers have managed to set a world record in the Northern
Hemisphere. They were able to submerge and explore the bottom of an
Aragats mountain lake located 3,207 meters above sea level.
Although three Armenian divers went only 12 meters deep in Stone Lake,
it does not diminish their victory. Member of the Armenian Extreme
NGO Chairmanship Board Armine Harutyunyan, who participated in the
organization of the expedition, said at a meeting with media that at
the kind of altitude diving that deep in a lake can be considered to
be a 'real extreme' for any diver, as human body is not accustomed
to such high pressures.
(The world record in scuba diving is 127 meters).
According to Armenian divers, before that in similar conditions
an attempt at diving was made by famous French traveler and ocean
explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau's team at Lake Titicaca in the Southern
Hemisphere (South America) in 1959.
The expedition was organized by the Ayas Nautical Research Club and
the Armenian Extreme NGO. The divers were international category
instructor Rafael Lazarian, Ayas club chairman, Kilikia Ship captain
Karen Balayan, Emergency Situations Ministry special diving group
commander Artak Elmasakyan.
The event took place on July 21, at the moment of diving the
temperature of the lake water on the surface +5 degrees Celsius, and
only +3 on the bottom. The divers stayed underwater for 80 minutes,
although there had originally planned to stay there for 40 minutes.
According to Armenian Extreme organization doctor Gevorg Shahsuvaryan,
the divers were subject to medical examination before and after the
dive and it turned out that their organisms managed to return to
normal within only an hour.
Armenian divers highlight the importance of the expedition in the
sense that it opens the way for all researches to be made in difficult
conditions in the future.