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Mark Andrews is a maverick, an adventurer, and an adrenaline seeker.
He drives his body to the peak of human endurance. He puts his success
down to 100% self-belief, rigorous training and disciplined mind
control. His visualisation techniques learned from his love of the
martial arts have enabled him to survive where medical opinion would
say otherwise. The risks he takes are tightly calculated, backed
by extensive experience and with nothing left to chance.
Mark has strong connections with Japan as a devotee of the martial
art of AIKIDO. He became a martial arts instructor in 1985 and operated
a busy school as a joint partner for 14 years.
At that time he was a psychiatric nurse at the infamous Broadmoor
Hospital for the criminally insane. Mark operated in the intensive
care unit for 10 years where the most violent inmates were incarcerated
and had to deal with violence on a daily basis.
He left Broadmoor in 1997 after becoming a scuba diving instructor
and moved to the warmer climate of Dubai to finally have the adventure
that he'd craved since leaving Broadmoor. He soon found this in
the form of deep diving and within a short time was exceeding the
recognised limits for recreational diving.
In 1996 whilst on a diving holiday to the Philippines Mark 'accidentally'
broke the British record for deep air diving with a dive to 127m.
It took only a week to make the decision to take on the world record,
which had stood since 1994. He trained with the legendary Hal Watts
- an ex-holder of the deep air record with a training regime was
nothing less than masochistic: physical training at the gym for
six days per week and a diet of chicken and fish with no other fluids
than water passing his lips for 8 months in an attempt to purify
his body as much as possible.
In July 1999 Mark Andrews smashed the world record deep air dive
with a descent to 156.4m surpassing his mentor Hal Watts by 27.6m.
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