by Jorg Jansen
October 11, 2009 in World Record by Jorg Jansen
Today there was a Freediving Guinness World Record set in the Garda Lake in Italy. “La Scuola Del Mare 2″, The School of the Sea 2, organized this record and managed to complete it by gathering 284 freedivers who then dived down together at the same time. Impressive sight to watch!
by Jorg Jansen
September 29, 2009 in World Record by Jorg Jansen
The underwaterchannel has made a good video of the 101 meter world record from Natalia Molchanova. Unfortunately they stick to their stupid content lock-in method and only make a short version of their complete video available on youtube, so that I can embed it here. If you want to see a full version you have to go to their website. Old fashion way of delivering content…
Below the video also a graph of the dive.
by Jorg Jansen
September 27, 2009 in Champion Freediver, World Record by Jorg Jansen
Two days later and another world record for Russian Natalia Molchanova. Today she did a free immersion dive to 90 meters. That’s 5 meters deeper then her own former world record from 2008.
AIDA International recognizes her as the athlete with the most world records behind her name, beating Herbert Nitsch with 1 world record, who stands at 25 world records.
Congratulations to Natalia and her outstanding new record and complete list of accomplishments. The dive took place in Sharm el Sheikh in Egypt during the Ruler of the Deep competition organized by the Only One Apnea Center.
by Jorg Jansen
September 25, 2009 in World Record by Jorg Jansen
Today Natalia Molchanova (Russia) became the first woman to freedive to a 3 digit depth on her own strength. She made a 101 meter constant weight freedive in a time of 3 minutes and 50 seconds.
The dive took place in Sharm el Sheikh in Egypt during the Ruler of the Deep competition organized by the Only One Apnea Center. World record number 25 for Natalia and who knows what will follow.
The old record was in the hands of Sara Campbell with a 96 meter dive, done earlier this year.
by Jorg Jansen
August 4, 2009 in Event, William Winram by Jorg Jansen
Winram freeclimbing – photo Fred Buyle
What were Frederic Buyle and William Winram doing aboard a 30-meter sailing boat in the turquoise waters of the South of France? Well, it is summer time after all, one could think they were on vacation. On the contrary, the two gentlemen freedivers worked twentyone straight days for the purpose of filming one of several high-definition documentaries featuring freediving. Thankfully, Frederic Buyle and William Winram found a way to beat the “freediver blues” of having to dive daily in rather cold waters (15° C) all the while pursuing their quest to produce unusual underwater photographs, like the now infamous “A Beer Chez Dean” taken in the Bahamas last April.
In the little spare time away from the daily “chores” of having to dive for the cameras, they decided to take on freeclimbing. Freeclimbing, you ask? « It’s great », says Winram tongue-in-cheek « I am usually afraid of heights, but with underwater freeclimbing, I feel safe ». Indeed, no need for a harness, ropes or someone to belay at the bottom. The only caution one needs to exercise while practicing this activity is to mind the climbing surface: do not touch the coral !
Buyle and Winram’s next venture will be taking place in the beautiful Ionian Islands (Greece) later this month until early September. Aboard a fully-equipped 15-meter liveaboard yacht, they will take 8 participants out for a sailing and freediving experience of a lifetime. Tempted? A couple of spots are left for the second cruise week. More info on Ocean Encounters website: www.oceanencounters.net.
by Jorg Jansen
July 15, 2009 in Event, World Championships by Jorg Jansen
The first information about the depth world championships for 2009 are beginning to come out and the wild-cards are also known. It will be interesting to see which athletes are going to attend this competition which will take place in Dean’s blue hole, Bahamas, from November 25 till December 5. Below a first email and the wild-cards for this competition.
Information regarding the AIDA depth World Championships to be held in Dean’s Blue Hole, Bahamas from November 25 – December 5, 2009.
All AIDA National Associations have been sent a pdf file containing the information required for registration of the athletes selected for this event.
For athletes from countries where there is no national AIDA, you need to contact AIDA International at info@aida-international.org. If no one else from your country applies for your discipline then you will qualify automatically, otherwise AIDA will arrange a selection method with the other candidates from your country.
Once you have qualified and sent the entry fee, the organisers will send you information regarding booking accommodation, travel advice, and how to complete your registration.
If you believe you should have qualified then you need to contact your National AIDA. Qualification is as follows:
NB if an athlete qualifies for one discipline they will not be able to compete in the other discipline unless they have qualified for that also.
The minima are:
(must have been performed in an official AIDA competition with ranking after the 27th of November 2007).
Wild cards are:
Nicola Roderick
CNF WOMEN:
Last depth: 40m
CNF MEN:
Last depth: 45m (2 athletes)
Julie Gautier
Last depth: 65m
CWT MEN:
Last depth: 85m
by Jorg Jansen
July 13, 2009 in World Record by Jorg Jansen
Karol Meyer
On July 10 Karol Meyer from Brazil did a static of 18:32 minutes with the help of oxygen. She planned to take the Guinness World Record with this time. And while 18:32 minutes is indeed 29 seconds more the Gianluca Genoni his Guinness record set in november 2008, it is not more then the current oxygen static record.
Guinness record validation works in a slow way, so Karol Meyer probably asked Guinness what the current record was and got the response that Gianluca’s record was the latest. However, Nicola Putignano already set a new oxygen static of 19:02 minutes during a TV show in Italy in may this year. You can find more about his record here, and a video of the tv show here. This record is probably still in the big ratification queue at Guinness, but as there was a Guinness official present during the Italian TV show, my guess is that Nicola record is the real deal.
Still 18:32 minutes is a big number and because she already did it twice (also in training), my guess is that she’s capable of breaking the 19 minute barrier as well. Below the video of the attempt.
by Jorg Jansen
July 6, 2009 in CMAS, World Record by Jorg Jansen
And now for something completely different. Most of you know about all the different freediving disciplines that are out there, but I guess some of you don’t know about the freediving discipline called Jump-blue.
When freediving records were getting deeper and deeper and CMAS was still certifying freediving records in constant weight, a lot of CMAS people suddenly said it was enough with these dangerous depths and there should be a sportive solution for it. So they combined constant weight with dynamic and they invented the CMAS discipline Jump-Blue, also called the cube. Take a look at the following video which displays the discipline.
In this discipline freedivers dive to 10 meters depth and from there on dive around a square with 15 meter long sides, until they have to come up and swim 10 meters back to the surface. Most people agree it is a pretty dangerous discipline because of the perfect shallow water blackout you can get from this discipline, but that’s another discussion.
Monica Barbero
Yesterday it was time for the Italian championships in this discipline and Monica Barbero set a new CMAS world record for the women in this discipline. She swam a total distance of 143,33 meters. That is 10 meter down, 8+ lanes (or 2 complete squares) and coming back up again. Former world record was in the hands of Katty Macias from Ecuador with a distance of 142,28 meters.
Michele Tomasi was the winner with the men with a distance of 147,77 meters. Devrim Cenk Ulusoy from Turkey is the current men’s world record holder with a distance of 159,54 meters.
Complete results of the Italian championships below.
by Jorg Jansen
June 27, 2009 in Event, World Record by Jorg Jansen
All info, interviews, photos and videos will be place here!
Sandi Bitenc from Maribor (Slovenia) started yesterday at 18:00 hours with his grueling quest to do as many meters underwater as possible in 24 hours time. Today at 18:00 he finished this taks with a distance of 51.100 meters. That is a totaal of 1022 laps in a 50 meter pool!
We do an interview in half an hour or so. Exact time will be published here soon! Will be live streaming.
LIVE INTERVIEW STREAMING ON INTERNET AT 18:45
by Jorg Jansen
June 27, 2009 in Event, World Record by Jorg Jansen
Previous parts can be found here: Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3
Watch the video’s: introduction / 6 hour video / 12 hour video / 18 hour video or subscribe to our youtube Sharkchannel
15:00-16:00
15:00 Sandi is at 46km/920 laps after 21 hours. He got his crew working on him right now. foot massage, oil, neck, shoulders, gelfood, drink…
15:20 he made an unexpected stop at 46400 meters. skipping 2 cycles. he ate a sandwich! The first solid food after 4 days!
15:44 time cycle up to 1:35.
15:47 small stop for an interview for local tv. but only for 1 minute.
16:00-17:00
16:06 After 22 hours he has done a distance 47.700 meters/954 laps. Estimated end distance: 52 km.
16:30 only 1,5 hour to go! he’s at 48.500 meters.
16:50 he’s at 4900 meters.
17:00-18:00 Last Hour
17:00 entering the last hour he’s at a distance of 49.350 meters/987 laps! He’s coming out now for a small break and prepares for the last hour.
17:18 @49800 meters
17:24 he just arrived at 50 km! 1000 laps… I say it again 1000 laps….
17:50 50800 meters, only 10 minutes to go!
18:00 FINAL DISTANCE 51.100 METERS!!!!
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