Discover the Extraordinary Story of Free Diver Alessia Zecchini!
‘How far would you go to achieve the dream that you love? Allesia Zecchini has an unbreakable love for the deep depths of the ocean. The depths where everything becomes calm and you glide through a serene realm, all in just a few minutes. Soon, she met a man who made her fire burn really bright until an incident happened. Alessia Zecchini, born on June 30, 1992, is an Italian freediver. She got interested in the sport at 13, inspired by Natalia Molchanova, a famous Russian free-diving champion. However, she faced difficulty finding a class as they were all for men, but with the help of her dad, she eventually joined a diving academy. She impressed them with her dives, aiming for a promising future. Unfortunately, she faced a setback when under-18s were banned from official competitions. These were her darkest moments, and she cried, unsure about her path. Still, she persevered, practicing freediving in pools and seas and committing to making it her life’s pursuit.’
Top diver’s death casts long shadow over deep beauty of the Blue Hole
‘Last month, Stephen Keenan, aged 39 and from Dublin, drowned while overseeing a dive by the freediving world record holder Alessia Zecchini. While attempting to cross “the arch” of the Red Sea’s notorious Blue Hole using only a single breath, the 25-year-old Italian became disoriented. Keenan rushed to her aid and guided her to the surface. She made it out unharmed but he blacked out and was found floating face down some distance away.
As a safety diver, Keenan was one of the best in the business. His death has cast a shadow over the summer and provided a stark reminder of the dangers involved in negotiating probably the most dangerous diving spot in the world
The Blue Hole is a 120-metre-deep sinkhole, five miles north of Dahab. Its nickname is the “divers’ cemetery”. Yet thousands continue to flock here each year, unperturbed by the increasing number of plaques that hang on the cliff opposite to mark those who never returned.’
The Irish people are selfless and brave – with so much of Eire’s modern thinking lying not in the theology of the Catholic Church – which has oppressed the Island population for decades – but rather in the Marxist-Leninist ideology that fuelled the Easter Uprising of 1916 (with the then Irish Republican Army forming the world’s first official ‘Red Army’ in the modern sense). The ‘English’, of course, the inventors of modern (predatory) capitalism, would not continance an Eire speaking ‘Gaelic’ and pursuing a Marxist-Leninist path so close to the Mainland British Isles. Indeed, ‘Protestant’ Northern Ireland (situated in the Northeast of Eire) exists to sow derision and violence amongst the Irish people. Remember, when the Tory-LibDems Coaltion of 2010 took power (and subsequently murdered 120,000+ People with Disablities through Welfare-Cuts) – it was the Northern Irish ‘Unionists’ that joined the Westminister Junta – thus enabling and facilitating this mass-murder! Of course, I have a vested interested in Eire as my maternal grandmother – Gladys Kilmurray – was from the Mullingar (Muileann gCearr) area of County Westmeath (situated in Midland region of Eire – which falls within the province of Leinster). Oneday, my family will visit the village of ‘Ballynacargy‘ (Baile na Carraige) and pay our respects.
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 