Freediving Recap: May 2009 | Shark Freediving

Freediving Recap: May 2009

May 31, 2009 in Recap by Jorg Jansen

It’s already the last day of the month again, so it’s time for our monthly look back at the freediving scene. What was the most important freediving news of the month May 2009?

May 22 – Martin Stepanek 122 Meter Constant

Martin Stepanek has set a new freediving world record by diving to 122 meters on a single breath. He did this in the discipline constant weight with fins, using a monofin and wearing normal mask. Total dive time was 3:36 minutes.

May 23 – Martin Stepanek 110 Free Immersion

Martin Stepanek did a 110 meter Free Immersion! With this dive he breaks the current world record of 109 meters done by Herbert Nitsch. It’s sure he’s in amazing form!

Dive time of this amazing world record is 3:56 minutes. What is even more amazing that he was amazingly clear, smiling at the safety freedivers at 30 meters depth when coming up and finishing the surface protocol is just 4 seconds.

Summary about Shark-Freediving – May 2009

2 AIDA World records
1 Guinness World record
18 National records
8 Reports about competitions
21 Video’s
36 Posts

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