caribbean cup 2015-01_C.indd - Roatan Freediving Caribbean Cup

MAYAN PRINCESS RESORT
AND THE BEACH CLUB SAN SIMON
PRESENT THE
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ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONALE
POUR LE DÉVELOPPMENT DE L’APNÉE
Located in the Caribbean Sea, the Honduran island of Roatan is surrounded by crystal clear waters that are calm and warm. It
is part of the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef, the second largest reef system in the world, where you can find walls that drop off to
hundreds of meters only a few swim strokes away from white sandy beaches.
A popular diving destination since the 70’s, Roatan has all the necessary infrastructure for hosting this world-class event and to
provide for the necessary comfort and safety to all participants and staff.
ROATAN, BAY ISLANDS
The island is served by the Juan Manuel Gálvez Roatán International Airport which has direct international flights from Miami,
Dallas, Atlanta, and Houston (2 hours flight connection) via American Airlines, Delta Airlines, United Airlines and Avianca Airlines
respectively, as well as domestic connections for international flights arriving into mainland Honduran cities including the
capital Tegucigalpa, San Pedro Sula and San Salvador, El Salvador (30 minutes flight). Canadian carriers Sunwing Airlines (via
Toronto) and WestJet also serve the Island with direct charter flights.
Roatan is also serviced by the Galaxy Wave express Catamaran ferry with two daily trips to and from La Ceiba.
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Since its inception in 2013, the Caribbean Cup has become one of the most important freediving competitions in the world.
World- and National Champions from countries in the 5 continents, high-level safety teams and distinguished international
judges participate in this exciting competition, held at one of the most appropriate venues on the planet. Free Immersion (FIM),
Constant Weight with Fins (CWT), and Constant Weight Without Fins (CNF) are the three disciplines in which athletes try to reach
greater depths hile holding their breath.
Since we began to look into the process of organizing an international competition in Roatan, we started seeking for advice
and expertise from professional freedivers and their governing body, AIDA. The first 2 editions of the Caribbean Cup (2013/14)
were held in a warm atmosphere, athletes from the 5 continents congregated and 1 world record was established, as well as 7
continental records and more than 40 national records; reaching important media outlets all over the world, such as CNN TV, CNN
International , CNN en Español, Fox Sports Latinoamerica, Huffington post, Deeper Blue, Silverkris Magazine (Singapore Airlines),
Acuadeus Magazine (France), Sun+ Magazine (UK), Scuba Diver Life (USA), The Inertia Magazine, Sportsub.net (Venezuela),
Winsports Magazine (Colombia), Voice Magazine (Honduras), Radio W (Colombia), Prawno Apparel, Publimetro Magazine
(Colombia), Centro de Actividades Subacuáticas (Venezuela).
(To see more, click over the respective media).
(To see more, click over the respective item)
Caribbean Cup trailer played in the 4 honduran airports
Caribbean Cup video promo 1
Caribbean Cup video promo 2
Caribbean Cup roatan travel network documentary
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Fox Sports Latin America 3 years supporting the Caribbean Cup!!
Fox Sport Pasion Xtrema tv show “William Trubridge Roatan 2012”
Fox Sport Pasion Xtrema tv show “Caribbean Cup 2013”
Fox Sport Pasion Xtrema tv show “Caribbean Cup 2014”
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West Bay is the beach where the event will take place. All staff and competitors will be housed in our
exclusive Resort Mayan Princess; the Roatan Organizing Committee will cover accommodation expenses
during competition days.
The diving platform will be located 3 minutes by boat from our headquarter, the “San Simon Beach Club”.
Organized and supervised training will be available from April 10th for free. O2 is available.
Also several hotels and restaurants in West Bay and West End will provide discounts to all the
competitors during the training weeks. Rooms, hotels, apartments, cabañas, condos, posadas, are all
available at low prices. Feel free to contact us in order to find the best option to your budget.
West End Town is a mere 10 minutes away from West Bay
by taxi boat or car (that run continuously until dark).
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This Beach Club has opened their doors to the freediving community and allowed us to use
the club as the event headquarter. At this venue, we will host the following amenities:
Registration area and Office Space / WI-FI
Room for staff/helpers
Judges Room
Room for award ceremony
Room for Event Committee
Safe storage / lockers
Showers and changing rooms
Full bar and restaurant
Lounge chairs and hammocks
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3 minutes boat ride
The site proposed for the competition is 0.70 m from shore ( N 16° 16´ 577´´ - W -86° 36´ 365´´ ), located in front
of West Bay Beach and within 3 minutes by boat from our headquarter at San Simon Beach Club. Two moorings
are installed permanently on a large submerged sand patch, at a depth of 189 meters (620 feet). These moorings
will then anchor the competition platform and the main event catamaran, see picture below.
A large and comfortable catamaran 60 feet long,
20 feet wide, with radio, internet and toilet
facilities will be our main event floating base
for the spectators, the media crew and will also
serve as the location of our live broadcasting
station. This catamaran can host up to 65 people
comfortably.
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“Deep Down” is a 12 x
12 feet platform, with
capacity to comfortably
host up to 15 people. Built
and designed sepcifically
for freedive training and
competitions, with an
integrated counter-ballast
system, sonar device, electric
winch, great buoyancy and
stability. This platform will
have one official line and
three warm-up lines.
NOTE: This platform is for the
exclusive use of competitors
and staff.
Two transfer boats with a capacity of up to 15 people per
boat will be permanently available to ferry competitors,
judges and staff from shore to the competition
catamaran. (3 minutes boat ride)
One additional boat will be permanently by the dive
platform for the exclusive use of emergency evacuation.
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Photo Lia Barrett, William Trubridge (NZ)
escorted by safety team staff
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6 Experienced, advanced life support trained
safety divers per competition line.
1 Doctor/medic on the platform per line.
1 Safety scuba diver on site for counterbalance
system backup.
4 Paramedics provided by Roatan Red Cross.
Traditional counter balance system capable of
2+m/s assisted ascent .
Electric winch.
1 Fast evacuation boat capable of making the
beach in 3 minutes.
1 Fully equipped ambulance on standby with
15 minute drive to advanced medical center
and decompression chamber.
1 High resolution sonar per competition line.
Caribbean Cup is fully dedicated to the safety of the athletes, being the first freediving
competition to implement a mandatory medical response course to its safety freedivers,
organizers and local medical personnel. Also on the Caribbean Cup 2015 medical doctor
Kerry Hollowell (US), will develope a course with an emphasis in basic and universal
freediving safety procedures, more advanced CPR and ACLS elements and overall team
building and leadership. All athletes and organizers are invited and encouraged to
attend at no cost. The course follows the assumption that head safety diver, Ren
Chapman has already set a universal standard of basic safety procedures for the
entire safety team.
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MEDICAL PROTOCOL
1. Persons on the platform
a. 6 Experienced, advanced life support trained safety divers per competition line.
b. 1 Doctor/medic on the platform per line.
c. Two operators for counterbalance system and deep sonar device.
d. 1 Safety scuba diver on site for counterbalance system backup.
e. 4 Paramedics provided by Roatan Red Cross.
2. Equipment per line
a. 1 oxygen bottle for decompression post-dive per line.
b. 1 oxygen bottle for use in injury only per line.
c. Medical bag on platform to include :
i.
Bag valve mask device
ii.
Laryngeal mask airway and/or King tube advanced airway
iii. Stethoscope
iv. Suction catheter
v.
16-gauge needle catheter
vi. Oropharyngeal airway
vii. Defibrillator in a dry bag
viii. BP cuff apparatus
ix. Pulse oximeter
x.
Epinephrine
xi. CPAP face mask
d. Equipment on the boat :
i.
Stethoscope
ii.
Oxygen
iii.
Pulse oximeter
iv.
BP cuff
3. Examinations
a. Examinations will occur at any point without disturbing the recovery of the athletes before/after dive
by any of the medical doctor on site.
i.
Includes any clinical relevant examination of the diver.
ii.
Including but not limited to: listening to heart/lung sounds, evaluating for sinus and /or lung
bleeding, examination of throat and ear, etc.
4. Decompression oxygen
a. May occur after any dive deeper than 60 mtrs.
b. Diver to breath oxygen on the surface only.
c. Diver may only breath oxygen for no longer than 5 minutes.
5. Evacuation Plan
a. One boat will permanently be available next to the dive platform exclusively for emergency
evacuation.
b. ambulance on land (3 minute boat ride from dive platform) and 15 minutes from emergency clinic and
hyperbaric chamber.
c. The whole event will be covered by the Honduran Red Cross and Bomberos Voluntarios (Volunteer
Firemen) Staff.
6. Grounding of athletes
a. May occur at the discretion of the lead medical doctor.
b. Will involve a thorough evaluation of the athlete and determination that subsequent diving may further
harm or worsen the present injury or put the athlete at significant harm or in danger of loss of life.
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The entry fee cost is US$ 1,000 for the first 20 competitors to confirm their participation by paging
the fee, and US$ 1,200 if you confirm after the first 20 registrants. You can also pay 50% before
April 1st. and the remaining 50% at the time of the official registration (May 24th).
Registration includes:
• Hosting at Mayan Princess Resort during the event.
• Participation in the 3 disciplines of the competition (CWT; CNF; FIM)
• Free access to the training lines in the weeks prior to the competition.
• Entrace to the closing ceremony party
MAY 24
Check in at the resort sponsor, official
registration & Open Ceremony.
MAY 25
Day 1 Competition.
MAY 26
Day 2 Competition.
MAY 27
Day 3 Competition.
MAY 28
REST DAY.
MAY 29
Day 4 Competition.
MAY 30
Day 5 Competition.
MAY 31
Day 6 Competition and Closing
Ceremony.
JUNE 1st
Check out and departure.
Classification and points:
• Ranking classification will be based on the average of the best performances done by the athlete
in each discipline • There will also be a ranking per discipline • The standard AIDA points system
will be used. (It is not mandatory to do an announcement per discipline; athletes can choose to
make announcements in the same discipline as many times as they want.)
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AIR TEMPERATURE:
Lows: 25 - 28 C (77 - 86 F)
Highs: 28 - 30 C (82 - 86 F)
CURRENTS:
Null to moderate.
WATER TEMPERATURE:
Average: 27 - 29 C (80 - 84 F)
( Water temperature decreases about 2
degrees at 100 mtrs )
VISIBILITY:
24 - 40 meters (80 - 120 feet)
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The Honduran Ministry of Tourism as well as the Municipality of Roatan, have expressed their enthusiasm for this event
to be hosted on our island.
They will provide us with local police support, medical assistance
from the Red Cross, ease of processing permits and both governmental entities will host a banner announcing this event on
their respective websites.
Photo Lia Barrett, Alexey Molchanov (Russia)
and Marina Kazankova (Russia)
“El Aguila wreck”; Roatan , May 2014
Bay Islands Triathlon
- ITU Sanctioned event - Held yearly since 2003 Fishing Tournament
- Bill Fish Foundation sanctioned 2010 as the first official “Catch and Release” Hosted yearly since 1999
Central American Golf Championship
- Established in 1944 - First held on Roatan in February 2012 Caribbean Cup 2015
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All necesary cameras will be available
to film the event according to the
“official rules and regulations”. There
will be several surface cameras as
well as one bottom plate camera
for each competition line. Freediver
and scuba diver videographers and
photographers will also be covering
the event.
The event will be broadcasted online.
Other media coverage:
Vertical banners (airport lobby
Tegucigalpa, San Pedro Sula
and Roatan), all participating
hotel lobbies)
Over the road banners (West
End, West Bay and Coxen Hole)
Posters and Flyers (all over
the island, including Utila,
La Ceiba, San Pedro Sula,
Tegucigalpa and Copán)
Roatan Chat Groups/Web
page/Facebook/Twitter Links
Fox Sports Latin America:
“Pasion Xtrema” TV Show
Aired in all Latin America
Repeated 3 times.
The following will receive complete
media kits (photos, videos, press
releases):
All Honduran TV Channels:
Channel 3
Televicentro
Maya TV (channel 66)
Roatán Cable Companies.
All Honduran Newspapers:
El Heraldo
La Tribuna
Diario Tiempo
La Prensa
Diez (all sports)
All Honduran Radio Stations:
Radio America
Radio HRN
Radio Caracol
Sun 107
Estero Red
In order to confirm your inscription or
get more information, please contact the
competition organizer: ESTEBAN DARHANPE
CONTACT: [email protected]
www.roatanfreediving.com
Facebook page: Caribbean Cup Freediving
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