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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 ...
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.
A freediver has broken a record for the deepest dive underneath a frozen lake without wearing a wetsuit. David Vencl, 40, swam 52.1 metres below Switzerland's Lake Sils in a single breath. The ...
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]
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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.
In the process, he broke another world record: the deepest free dive under the ice with fins. [6] He also became an ambassador of the Lake Baikal Foundation . In July 2021, Molchanov was a competitor of the nine-day international competition Vertical Blue at Dean's Blue Hole in the Bahamas.
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 ...