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...every taste: from the elegant Library Hotel in midtown Manhattan, where room numbers are based on the Dewey decimal system of classifying books (900.004 for the Asian History room), to the adventurous Jules' Undersea Lodge at the bottom of the Emerald Lagoon in Key Largo, Fla., where guests scuba dive to the entry of their underwater accommodations. "This is a real trend for the traveler who has been there, done that," says Mary Tabacchi, professor of hotel management at Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration. "There's a whole market segment of travelers in Europe, the U.S. and Asia...
...knack for the ball,” Richardson said. “He was one of those players who never had to dive for loose balls because he always knew where he had to be at any point to just pick them...
...Free diving was first made popular by The Big Blue, a 1988 French movie about the sport that was inspired by real events and featured rapturous cinematography. Today there are more than 20,000 free divers around the world, in a sport that was barely heard of 15 years ago, and the number is growing. Most practice the "constant ballast" technique, in which a diver uses fins but no extra weights to dive as far as possible before coming up for air. No-limits free divers take it further, using a weighted sled running down a vinyl-coated steel cable...
...Mestre was aiming to break the record of 531.5 ft. set by Ferreras off Cozumel in Mexico in January 2000. Ferreras and other representatives of the group he founded in Miami, the International Association of Free Divers (IAFD), were present to monitor her dive, and a video camera was attached to Mestre's sled. Ferreras declined to comment to TIME on the accident, and the video footage has not been released...
...saying that "the only people responsible for this are myself, for introducing Audrey to the sport, and Audrey, for deciding to practice it." For that reason he said he would not disclose "any information whatsoever" about Mestre's accident. But Rudi Castineyra, director of the Miami-based FREE (Free Diving Regulations and Education Entity), another group that records deep dives, says Ferreras "has a moral obligation to let us know what happened. This could save many other lives." Three days before she died, Mestre completed a practice dive to 558 ft., and the IAFD posthumously posted that...