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Herbert also won the AIDA Individual World Championships. His record of 66 m (217 ft) for Constant Weight without fins, set in 2004, [5] was beaten by 14 m in 2005 by Czech free-diver, Martin Štěpánek, who was also the holder of the Free Immersion record of 106 m (348 ft); Nitsch recorded 100 m (328 ft) in September 2003, but his record was ...
Sheck Exley died in 1994 at 268 m (879 ft) in an attempt to reach the bottom of Zacatón in a dive that would have extended his own world record (at the time) for deep diving. [44] Dave Shaw died in 2005 in an attempt at the deepest ever body recovery and deepest ever dive on a rebreather at 270 m (886 ft). [82] [83]
Nuno Gomes is a scuba diver who lives in New York City.Born in Lisbon, his family relocated to Pretoria when he was 14 years old. [1] He held two world records in deep diving (independently verified and approved by Guinness World Records), the cave diving record from 1996 to 2019 and the sea water record from 2005 to 2014.
This is the complete list of the World Aquatics Championships medalists in diving from 1973 to 2024. [1] Men. Bold numbers in brackets denotes record number of ...
Charls made his record-breaking dive at SeaWorld San Diego, which was viewed by millions of people on ABC's Wide World of Sports. [5] The dive was performed in conjunction with the Guinness World Records and the International Swimming Hall of Fame. Since 1983, many divers have tried to break this record, but sustained injuries upon impact with ...
A 96-year-old celebrated his birthday on Saturday by breaking his own record as the world's oldest active scuba diver for the third year running, plunging to the depths of the equivalent of a 15 ...
SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — China has won more diving gold medals than any other country, passing the one-time powerhouse United States for the top spot on the table Monday. Some record books ...
The current no-limit world record holder is Herbert Nitsch with a depth of 214 metres (702 ft) set on 9 June 2007, in Spetses, Greece, [6] however, in a subsequent dive on 6 June 2012 in Santorini, Greece to break his own record, he went down to 253.2 metres (831 ft) and suffered severe decompression sickness immediately afterwards [7] and subsequently retired from competitive events.