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Slavi Angelov Staff: Nova TV
The premiere of “233 meters between life and death”, a film by Slavi Angelov, is Saturday on Nova TV
In fact, Theodora and Michael are trying to set a double Guinness World Record: the first for the deepest dive for a woman and the second for a couple, as the men have dived 330 meters. One of her support divers descends to such depth. For the first time in the film, you will be able to see the complete immersion, as it is documented with cameras. The main actors, the supporting divers, will say what is happening. And one more thing that few people know: in fact, this fatal ending was the best possible option for Theodora, because after her death it turned out that she was suffering from short-term cancer and had 2-3 months to live. Such a heroic ending for her is a far better option than anything else that would have happened to her. This was stated to Nova TV Slavi Angelov, editor in chief of the newspaper 168 Chasa and of the magazine Cosmos for the documentary “233 meters between life and death.”
This type of deep diving is very difficult for several reasons. Most importantly, gases change their properties as a function of pressure. This air that we now breathe, 21% oxygen, 78% nitrogen and some other impurities, at certain depths it becomes toxic. From the nitrogen, you begin to breathe at slightly greater depths, you can fall into anesthesia. Divers who do these types of dives must have a special plan in which they breathe a certain type of gas at different depths. When you descend below 75 meters, you pass the gases, which are for great depths. Then they descend to 233 m in just 8 minutes. They stay at this depth for only about 20 seconds, because every second more at this depth means long minutes of decompression before reaching the surface to ward off box disease. Nitrogen builds up as bubbles all over your body, and if you go out at high speed, they begin to expand as the pressure decreases and you can explode on the surface. They often have a heart attack or stroke, he explained.
You advance in a specific plan and when you return to specific depths you begin to make these stops for a certain time. Everything is considered with special software. But in the end there is something to note, because there are people on the forums who blame them for what happened, and in particular Mikhail: there is no textbook that tells how to dive 230-250m. In what they do, they are pioneers. Naturally, to achieve this great dream, they run a very big risk, Slavi Angelov also spoke about Teodora and Mihail Balabanovi.
At 42 meters, they have to decompress and literally change the gases they breathe every 3 or 5 meters, eventually breathing only oxygen in order to clean up the nitrogen. And really in the last meters it is advisable to start as slowly as possible. But at 42 meters Mikhail collided with her when he saw that she was inadequate. There is also the second support diver, they are trying to help her. Theodora doesn’t know where it is, she takes the regulator out of her mouth, they put it back in her mouth, she takes it out again. In fact, it ends up being swallowed with water and they decide to just bring it to the surface, she said.
I did not know her personally. I met Mikhail after the incident. It was very interesting for me what happened. I found her phone and called her when she was in Thessaloniki hospital. I told him I wanted to make this movie. We traveled to Greece several times to take all of these photographs, including the day Theodora’s dust was ritually scattered in the same bay near the island of Kelifos where they made their dives. This was her last dive, added the editor-in-chief of 168 Chasa newspaper and Cosmos magazine.
This movie is not an investigation, because for anyone who understands the sport, it is clear what happened. Rather, it is a film about a great dream of two people and their battle to achieve it. Many people ask me “Why do you need to dive to this depth?” Just for the world to move forward, for civilization to move, there must be people who are making great strides, he concluded.
The film will air on Nova TV on Saturday, September 26 at 12:30 p.m. after the newscast.
What happened on the fateful day? This will try to show and tell the documentary “233 meters between life and death” by Slavi Angelov.
Cameraman Anna Andreeva and drone operators Borislav Stefanov and Ivan Kirov, son of kidnapped businessman Kiro Kirov, who tried to save Teodora with artificial respiration during the accident, also participated in its creation. Editing is by Ivan Gvozdev, color corrections by Asen Sokolov, sound director is Marin Lashev.
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