By Nazario Rodriguez Jr.
Horizon news staff

Nitsch Herdert, who holds three world records in free diving, is here in Palau for several activities from February 26 to March 7.
Free diving literally means diving without using the oxygen tank.
The 36-year old Herdert and two other Austrian divers conducted a free lesson among local dive shop people on Friday night at the NECO Marine.
The session was to promote free diving and its different techniques and as a form of competition.
"I never went to school for this," said Herdert, the former pilot who said he owns the world record of 111 meters (swimming) and 183 meters or about 600 feet with vest.
It was in Egypt that Herdert set the record of nine minutes and four seconds in Dec. 2005.
The other two Austrian divers were Dafert Wolfang, a 32-year old psychologist and Schrader Marcus, a 40-year old Geologist.
Herdert said that free diving is much easier because it’s not dangerous. There are people to help you, but if there’s no one you will face a problem," he said.
The three Austrian divers shared their experience in other parts of the world like in Mexico and the Red Sea, presenting videos to some 20 individuals who showed up at the session.
They also talked about how they execute their dives like preferring more weight while coming down.
"But everybody has philosophies about the weight. But then it is hard to relax when you are heavy," he said.
Herdert shrugged off the notion that eating before diving is dangerous saying that "when you don’t eat, your metabolism goes down."