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People, Sports. In 2002, after news arrived that a rival female diver named Tanya Streeter had successfully gone to a record-breaking 525 feet, Ferreras began preparations for Mestre to make a 561-foot dive off the coast of the Canary Islands. 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. Soon enough, Mestre moved from support team member to ardent free diver and then to a world-class competitor who outshone her husband. But because of a fateful decision before the dive, Mestre never resurfaced alive. But the 28-year-old French woman did not make it back up alive. is an American documentary film directed by Jeremy Seifert. No Limits – The Audrey Mestre Documentary. There, she took up serious free-diving and with Ferreras as her instructor was soon reaching record depths. 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. Directed by Alison Ellwood. 1.8K likes. Ferreras was in charge of Mestre's lift bag air tank and did not allow any of the team to check that the tank had been charged. By the time her husband put on scuba gear and dove down to pick up her unconscious body to the surface it was too late and she was pronounced dead at a hospital on shore. Multiple FreeDiving World Record Legend & Mermaid August 11th, 1974 – October 12th, 2002 In Loving Memory to Audrey from Fans to Fans The choice is yours. They immediately developed a relationship and Mestre soon moved to Miami, Florida to live with Ferreras. 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The two became a couple, and Mestre followed the often elusive, often raucous Ferreras on his almost spiritual quest to push his limits underwater. In 2002, after news arrived that a rival female diver named Tanya Streeter had successfully gone to a record-breaking 525 feet, Ferreras began preparations for Mestre to make a 561-foot dive off the coast of the Canary Islands. Before starting this film, I had never heard of No Limits Freediving. World’s Strongest Man: The Giants of Iceland. Premise. Audrey had been married to 'Pipin' Ferreras, a world record free diver with cult-like celebrity status within the sport. Suffering from scoliosis as a teenager, Audrey Mestre found freedom in the ocean. She was attempting to perform a dive of 171 meters deep in the ocean by the Dominican Republic. In 1996 her interest in underwater sports led to her meeting free-diver Francisco "Pipín" Ferreras. 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. 4. She began swimming when she was still a baby and won a gold medal in a 25-meter swimming competition at only age two. 20:39 . Through her battle with scoliosis, Audrey Mestre discovered a passion for the ocean that led her to competitive free diving. 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). Mestre was born in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, to a family of snorkeling and scuba diving enthusiasts. In 2002, she was inducted posthumously into the Women Divers Hall of Fame and in August 2004 a book that tells her story was written by her husband and published under the title The Dive: A Story of Love and Obsession (.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:linear-gradient(transparent,transparent),url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:linear-gradient(transparent,transparent),url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:linear-gradient(transparent,transparent),url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:linear-gradient(transparent,transparent),url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}ISBN 0-06-056416-4). You can select videos by topic, location or type. On October 12th 2002 Audrey Mestre attempted to break the No Limits world record by diving 564 feet on a single breath of air. In 1999 the two diving aficionados married and the following year, off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Audrey Mestre broke the female world record by free diving to a depth of 125 meters (410 ft) on a single breath of air. With Pascal Bernabe, Gido Braase, Matt Briseno, Nick Buckley. 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. No Limits – The Terrible Story of Free-Divers Audrey Mestre and…Pipin Ferreras. It offered her a sense of freedom, and the burdens she faced on dry land soon dissipated as she slipped below the surface. 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. Years later, she discovered another reason to love the water: the elusive, often raucous free diver Pipin Ferreras. 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). 20:39 . Audrey Mestre was born in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, Île-de-France on August 11th, 1974. Audrey Mestre Film – “No Limits” The ESPN documentary film “No Limits” that aired 23rd July 2013 has been made available online via Vimeo. This breath taking movie relates the bad ending story of the beautiful mermaid free-diver Audrey Mestre and her husband Pipin Ferreras. 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. Directed by Hannah Storm. 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). A year later she broke her own record, by descending to 130 meters (427 ft). Audrey Mestre was cremated, her ashes scattered at sea. 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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). As a teenager, Audrey Mestre suffered from scoliosis, but in those formative years, she discovered a passion for the ocean. With our World-Map you can travel the world and select drone, timelapse or 360 videos. World Premiere, Documentary Suffering from scoliosis as a teenager, Audrey Mestre found freedom in the ocean. 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. A must to see in silence. 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 Join them and you will be notified about new & crazy videos, articles and innovations. As Mestre follows Ferreras's almost spiritual quest to push his limits underwater, she moves from … The next film in ESPN Films and espnW’s Nine for IX series, No Limits, will premiere on Tuesday, July 23, at 8 p.m. The dive where Audrey Mestre died was subject to an ESPN documentary in 2013 called “No Limits” and featured many of the people involved on the day, including the DeeperBlue.com writer Paul Kotik who was covering the event. Having completed practice dives even deeper in the weeks leading up to the record attempt, Mestre was prepared. People, Sports. The dive was controversial and heavily criticised as the setup did not match common freediving safety standards. 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.