Ocean Tec, supplier of top quality recreational and technical diving breathing gasses to Ocean College, custom blended heliox to the Recompression Chamber for specialised hyperbaric treatments and emergency oxygen for Sharms SAR and many local diving centres, is now also providing complete underwater support in the form of ‘Oceans Angels’.

Comprised of local Diving Instructors and technical divers, Oceans Angels has supplied deep, intermediate, shallow and surface support for several events including Leigh Cunningham and Mark Andrews’ ‘World Record Deepest Wreck Dive’ to 205 metres and Nina Preisners Deppest Woman Wreck Dive to 159 metres on the long lost wreck of The Jolande at Ras Mohamed.

Oceans Angels were called upon to provide deep and intermediate support during Sharm El Sheikhs ‘Apnea Week’ which saw a new World Record set by Carlos Coste in the variable weight free diving category to an astounding 140 metres!  Carlos was so impressed with the professionalism of Oceans Angels that he’s requested exactly the same team to be present when he returns to attempt a new World Record in the ultimate ‘No Limits’ category of free diving.

Free Diving requires a totally different kind of support from SCUBA diving, since the diver must rely on one single breath to complete his dive. The safest way to rescue a free diver in trouble is to get him or her to the surface as quickly as possible, to which end our support divers were equipped with 130kg independently inflated lift bags. In a ‘worse case’ scenario, these would be required to lift Carlos, his sled and the weighted line from 140 metres up to their level at 75 metres, from where they would attach a further lift bag to a ‘D’ ring fastened to his left wrist and shoot him up to the surface within seconds. Further support divers were standing by at 45 metres to assist both the free divers and our own deep support team, with surface support in the form of Sharms SAR doctors and medics in fast RIBs. Fortunately, Carlos made his dive unaided in an elapsed time of 4minutes and 14 seconds –
his 7^th world record !

Oceans Angels also stood by as a further two attempts on world records were made during the Apnea Week. Carlos Coste attempted to break the ‘Free Immersion’  record by diving to a depth of 107 metres but was unsuccessful due to a technicality. An attempt by New Zealander William Trubridge to 81 metres in the ‘Constant Weight without fins’ category, where Oceans Angels stood by at 85 metres, failed due to his blacking out upon almost reaching the surface.

World Record - VW Freediving
140 metres

Pictured with Carlos Coste are the original Oceans Angels.
Dave Summerfield on the left, Chad Clark, Martin Baker, Tim Pickard and John Kean.

World Record - Deepest Wreck Dive
205 metres

Oceans Angels support team with Leigh Cunningham and Mark Andrews.

World Record -  Deepest Woman Wreck Dive
159 metres

Oceans Angels support team with Nina Priesner