A short while ago, we gave you the best tips for scuba diving. If you are a lover of this kind of sport, stay tuned because today we are going to refer to the deepest freedive and the best free diving world records by discipline.
Freediving, or Free-diving, is an increasingly fashionable underwater sport that can be practiced by amateurs who want to discover this discipline as well as by professionals and top divers from all over the world.
It involves diving underwater while voluntarily holding your breath. The places where free diving can be practiced are very diverse and unusual. Specialists suggest free-diving by emphasizing its great health benefits both in the short and long term.
These benefits are based on wellness, self-awareness, avoidance methods, and breathing control, among others.
As you will see, there are different types of free-diving, so different people have reached the world record in this water discipline:
Static apnea is a discipline in which a person holds their breath underwater for as long as possible and does not need to swim any distance.
The men’s world record holder in static apnea is Stéphane Mifsud (France), with 11 min and 35 sec, 08/06/2009
Natalia Molchanova (Russia) = 9 min and 2 sec, 21/06/2013
Dynamic freediving can be done with or without fins and requires breathing dives where the diver moves horizontally underwater under their power without assistance/physical contact from a static surface.
The deepest free dive record made in the discipline of dynamic apnea with fins (monofin):
Mateusz Malina (Poland) = 300 meters | 0.186411 miles, 02/07/2016
Giorgos Panagiotakis (Greece) = 300 meters | 0.186411 miles, 02/07/2016
Dynamics without fins: Mateusz Malina (Poland) = 244 meters | 0.151615 miles, 01/07/2016
Dynamics with bialettes: Mateusz Malina (Poland) = 290 meters | 0.180198 miles, 27/03/2022
Dynamics with fins (monofin): Magdalena Solich-Talanda (Poland) = 257 meters | 0.159692 miles, 13/10/2019
Dynamics without fins: Julia Kozerska (Poland) = 197 meters | 0.12241 miles, 27/03/2022
Dynamics with fins: Magdalena Solich-Talanda (Poland) = 226 meters | 0.14043 miles, 27/03/2022
In this discipline, the freediver descends and ascends with his fins or with the use of his arms without pulling the rope or changing his weight. Only a single grab of the rope is allowed to stop the descent and start the ascent.
Constant weight with fins (monofin): Alexey Molchanov (Russia) = -130 meters | 0.0807783 miles, 18/07/2018
Constant weight without fins: William Trubridge (New Zealand) = -102 meters | 0.0633799 miles, 201/07/2016
Constant weight with fins: Alexey Molchanov (Russia) = -115 meters | 0.0714577 miles, 23/09/2021
Constant weight with fins (monofin): Alenka Artnik (Slovenia) = -114 meters | 0.0708363 miles, 07/11/2020.
Constant weight without fins: Alessia Zecchini (Italy) = 73 meters | 0.0453601 miles, 2/07/2018
Constant weight with fins: Jennifer Wenland (Germany) = -93 meters | 0.0577875 miles, 02/07/2021
In this discipline, the free-diver descends and ascends without fins using his or her arm strength by pulling on the rope.
Alexey Molchanov (Russia) = -125 meters | 0.0776714 miles, 24/07/2018
In this discipline, the diver descends with the help of a ballast weight and ascends with his/her strength: arms and/or legs, either pulling on the rope or not.
Nanja Van Der Broek (Netherlands) = -130 meters | 0.0807783 miles, 18/10/2015
In no-limit free-diving, the diver descends and ascends with the method of his choice.
Herbert Nitsch (Austria) = -214 meters | 0.132973 miles, 14/06/2007
Tanya Streeter (USA) = -160 meters | 0.09941939 miles 17/08/2002
These disciplines for free diving or free-diving require a lot of practice and consistency to be able to set world records like the ones described above.
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