Living
with Pipin, I couldn’t look away from freediving. Although I had always dived
with Scuba, I wanted to experience what he experienced by going down without the
burden of the tank and the whole equipment. By that time, he was training a girl
to become a freediver, so I joined them. After a while, I learned all the
exercises by heart, and I would even train the girl when he was busy or tired.
He realized that I had the conditions to make freediving a career and he
proposed to train me harder to establish a record.
It
is very difficult to live with someone that experiences sensations unknown by
the rest of the world, sensations that can’t be described or shared. That is
why in 1997 I took the decision of setting my first record in Freediving and
after that I have set three more records. I thought that if I could enter his
underwater world, I could be closer to him…and I did. On August 18th,
1999 we got married over a dock, near the sea, of course…
Many
people ask how after just 4 years practicing freediving I have already reached
130 meters when previous generations dedicated their lives to get to the 100
meters mark. The truth is that I don’t think I have anything in special, only
the luck of living with an extraordinary person whom I trust and that
transmitted me his 15 years of knowledge and experience as a professional, with
no limits…