The couple of Pipín Ferreras, a cuban man, and Audrey Mestre, a french woman, a pair of record setting free divers, seemed to be the perfect fit for each other. They spent time with each other. They loved and respected each other. They encouraged each other. They competed against each other. What more is there to ask for? With so much love in the relationship they had, why is it that Audrey ended up dead and that Pipín is to blame?
It all began when a woman by the name of Tanya Streeter set a new record by diving 525 feet deep, almost 100 feet deeper than Audrey's record. This cause Audrey's retaliation. But she was scared. Pipín's record was only 6 ½ feet away. She didn't have the guts to break his record so she said she would try to reach somewhere in the middle even though she knew she could do better, Audrey and Pipín both knew she could do better so Pipín encouraged his wife to go beyond his record. Maybe 538 ft deep? Or even 544 ½ ft. How about 551 ft? Scratch that, 558 ft. He even pushed her to go down to 597 ft deep. She told him she would not go that deep but only to 561 ft, 36 ft less than what he wanted.
Something about the day of the dive was off. The sky boomed with thunder and lightning, the waters were choppy, and most of their crew and safety hands were not there. Only 15 boats full a spectators and reporters, a few of their crew, Pipín, and Audrey was there. Before the dive the crew prayed to Changó, the Santería god of storms, and by mid afternoon, the sky was clear. Pipín prepared His wife for the dive since the shortage of crew members. While checking the are in the tank that would bring the sled back to the top, he only opened it to see if there was air in it and when he heard the hiss of the air he closed it back up. He never checked to see if it was at the right pressure; a huge mistake.
When she went under and reached her depth, she pulled the pin to inflate the bag to bring her back to the top but it didn't inflate; a common error that happens. But was this occurrence an accident? Audrey was stuck at 561 ft below the sea for more than 2 minutes, with more than 200 pound of pressure on her body. To help the lift, the bottom safety diver, Pascal Bernabe inserted his mouth piece tnto the lift bag to add air nad the sled began to ascend... But not high enough. Pascal offer her his mouth piece so she could breathe in air but she wouldn't accept it for some reason. Maybe because she thought people would render her dive a failure if she took a breath. She would've accepted it from Pipín. But he wasn't there.
After 3 minutes and 50 seconds, Audrey lost consciousness and drifted away from the sled. Pascal grabbed her limp body as he ascended. Pipín threw on a suit and dove in, meeting up with Pascal at some point to take his wife to the surface. 8 minutes and 38 seconds after her last breath, they surfaced. She was rushed to the hospital after been giving fail attempts at CPR. By then it was already too late.
There are rumors and questions going around. Where is the video of her dive, taken by the camera attached to the sled? Why were there so few safety divers? Why wasn't Audrey wearing a self-inflating wet suit? Why wasn't there a harness-and-pulley system that could've cranked her up from above the surface? Why weren't there any doctors or intubation tubes on site? Why is this the first death in this sport? What about Berttoni's and Fernandez's death? How does a man who doesn't even wear a seat belt in his car end up in charge of safety for the world's deepest dive?
All these questions circulated around the time of her death. I believe that this was an accident. Why would a man kill he was madly in love with since day one? There were some points that could've been changed so Audrey would still be alive. Pipín could've the air pressure. The complete crew and replacements should've been around so nothing went wrong and a crew of medic could've been there just in case something did go wrong.
Everyone is entitled to an opinion. I've stated mine based on the evidence I've collected. From what you have read in this article, you can compose your own opinion. you have the puzzle piece, connect them to see what kind of opinion you can create...
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