A competitors view

Staff · Issue 37, Jul/Aug 2007 · pp. 39–40

A competitors view by Gerald Rambert Having won the Mauritian national competition in February, I was excited to be selected to represent the country for the 11th International Championship of the CMAS. Patrick Davy, my team mate, was participating for the second time, as for me it was my first. He warned me about the stress and the tension there was going to be at the event, and I was soon to discover what he was talking about. First we went to check out just how good the others were. We found out rapidly that some of them had blocked their websites and we couldn’t get access to any kind of information. We had phone calls from other competing teams and soon realised that the others were doing the same. The competition had already begun! I arrived in Mauritius three weeks before the event and started diving immediately with my fellow friends from the north and the southwest of the island…