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Herbert Nitsch (born 20 April 1970) is an Austrian freediver, the current freediving world record champion, and "the deepest man on earth" [1] having dived to a depth of 253.2 meters (831 feet). Nitsch has held 34 world records in all of the eight freediving disciplines recognised by AIDA International and one in the traditional Greek ...
In September 2009, she became the first woman to pass 100 meters (328 ft.) diving with constant weight, in a dive to 101 meters (331 ft.) in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt. [7] Molchanova was also the first woman to dive on one breath through the Blue Hole arch in Dahab, Egypt. [8] Her record was a dive of 127 metres (417 ft.). [9]
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.
Molchanov achieved his first world record in 2008 in a pool discipline called Dynamic Apnea, in which he swam 250m underwater with a monofin on one breath. Since then he focused on the depth disciplines and began to compete in the open water. In 2012, Molchanov set a world record in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, when he
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - "I can't breathe!" - the exclamation made by a black man, Eric Garner, while being placed in a police chokehold - was chosen as the most notable quote of the year in an ...
The Deepest Breath is a 2023 documentary film directed and written by Laura McGann that profiles Italian freediver Alessia Zecchini on her quest to break a world record with the help of safety diver [clarification needed] Stephen Keenan [1] and her competition against Japanese freediver Hanako Hirose.
On 8 September 2015, during a pre-competition leading up to the individual world championships in Cyprus, Néry broke his own personal best and set the second deepest dive in history to -126m, two meters away from the world record, held by his friend Alexey Molchanov. [5]
Trubridge in 2010 Trubridge while freediving. William Trubridge MNZM (born 24 May 1980) is a New Zealand world champion and world record holding freediver.. Trubridge was the first diver to go deeper than 100 metres (330 ft) without oxygen and as of 2013 held the world record in the free immersion and constant weight without fins disciplines.