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Alessia Zecchini (born 30 June 1992) is an Italian freediver who has set world and Italian records in freediving. [1] [2]At the age of 13, Zecchini completed her first federal apnea course in A.s.d. "Apnea Blu Mare".
There, she took up serious free-diving and with Ferreras as her instructor was soon reaching record depths. In 1999 the two diving aficionados married and the following year, off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Audrey Mestre broke the female world record by free diving to a depth of 125 meters (410 ft) on a single breath of air. A year later she ...
In 1960, Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard were the first two humans to reach Challenger Deep, completing that dive as a team. [4] 52 years later, James Cameron became the first person to solo dive that point. Piccard, Walsh and Cameron remained the only people to reach the Challenger Deep until 2019, when regular dives in DSV Limiting Factor began.
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.
Kathy D. Sullivan describes what it was like to be the only person to both walk in space and reach the earth's deepest point. The First Woman to Dive to the Ocean’s Deepest Point Wore Two Omega ...
She is a public speaker, presenting "The Deepest Dive Ever" at TEDx in Austin, Texas in 2012, and also at the Divers Alert Network UHMS DAN 2006 Breath-hold Proceedings. She appeared on a set of five commemorative postage stamps distributed by the Turks and Caicos Islands in 2003. [6]
At age 16 Kathy Troutt made the Guinness Book of Records for the deepest female deep sea scuba dive, breathing ordinary air to a depth of 320 feet (97.5 m) [clarification needed] off Sydney Harbour with former Royal Australian Navy diver, Wally Reynolds. [1] Kathy dived on Sydney Harbour shipwrecks in 1965. [2]
Gomes' dive was a close call, as he got stuck in the mud on the bottom of Bushman's Hole for two minutes before escaping. [2] On 24 November 2004, Verna van Schaik set the Guinness Woman's World Record for the deepest dive by diving down to a depth of 221 metres (725 ft). [3]