Just a couple of days before the competiton started , news from Eyjafjallajökull eruption crossed the world. The icelandic Vulcano spitted ashes to heights over 9 km causing significant disruption to European air travel. The whole competition came to a hold. From 55 registred athletes only 18 managed to arrive.The whole crew from the organization and the prizes where all stranded , spread out in many different countries. It was total chaos, every diver trying to travel by car train whatever it would take just to get to Dahab on time for some training or even to manage to get at least a day of participating of the comp. From there started a strain of events where one day the ashes would calm down and bring peoples hopes high to a next day with more ashes and more mess. Thats until the Organizer Sebastian decided to cancelled the whole competition and let other organizers make a smaller one to take care for the divers that were already in Egypt. Lots of frustrations but a good fair decision after all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_travel_disruption_after_the_2010_Eyjafjallaj%C3%B6kull_eruption