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Herbert Nitsch. 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 ...
Occupation. Professional Freediver. 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". In 2009 she changed clubs and became an athlete of Dive Free Roma and Nuoto Belle Arti.
FINA World Junior Records in 25m pool are recognised starting on January 1, 2015. Records are recognized for long course (50 m pool) and short course (25 m pool) in the following events: relays: 4×50 free (short course only), 4×100 free, 4×200 free, 4×50 medley (short course only) and 4×100 medley. Also recognized are mixed relay records ...
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.
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, 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 and subsequently retired from competitive events.
Freediving. Freediving, free-diving, free diving, breath-hold diving, or skin diving, is a mode of underwater diving that relies on breath-holding until resurfacing rather than the use of breathing apparatus such as scuba gear . Besides the limits of breath-hold, immersion in water and exposure to high ambient pressure also have physiological ...
Deep diving. Scuba diver using a rebreather with open circuit bailout cylinders returning from a 600-foot (180 m) dive. Deep diving is underwater diving to a depth beyond the norm accepted by the associated community. In some cases this is a prescribed limit established by an authority, while in others it is associated with a level of ...
Alexey Molchanov. Alexey Molchanov ( Russian: Алексей Олегович Молчанов, born 6 March 1987) is a Russian champion freediver, multiple world champion ( AIDA and CMAS ), world record holder, and freediving promoter. He is also president of the "Freediving Federation" association, head of freediving school named in honor of ...