After a richly deserved relaxation day, athletes from across the realm persisted to push human boundaries and glimpse glory on Day 4 of the Vertical Blue 2021 freediving competition at Dean’s Blue Hole within the Bahamas.
It ended up being one other monster day for account-breaking dives with Russia’s Alexey Molchanov, France’s Arnaud Jerald, Slovenia’s Alenka Artnik, and Italy’s Alessia Zecchini each plight sleek world files.
On the Men’s aspect, Molchanov plight a brand sleek Constant Weight (CWT) world account with a 131m/430toes, 4mins 33secs dive.
Jerald surpassed his cling Constant Weight with Bifins (CWTBF) world account plight most efficient a few days earlier with a 3mins 35secs, 117m/384toes dive.
On the Girls folk’s aspect, Artnik surpassed her CWT account plight on Day 1 with a 120m/394toes dive in 3mins 28secs, whereas Zecchini plight a Free Immersion (FIM) world account with a 101m/331toes dive in 3mins 40secs.
Zecchini became as soon as interviewed by the BBC put up her dive that it is possible you’ll per chance gaze below.
As effectively as to the realm files, eight nationwide files devour been also plight.
For the Men, Alejandro Lemus surpassed his 95m/312toes Mexican nationwide CWT account plight on Day 1 with a 101m/331toes dive in 3mins 1sec. Taiwan’s Yun-Chieh Kuh added to his FIM account plight on Day 1 with a 102m/335toes dive in 3mins 10secs. Switzerland’s Florian Burghardt plight a CWT account with an 82m/269toes dive in 2mins 35secs, whereas Alex Davis of Barbados plight a nationwide FIM account with an 82m/269toes dive in 2mins 50secs.
On the Girls folk’s aspect, Isabelle Winner kept her unheard of make within the FIM discipline, extending her Bahamian nationwide account to 36m/118toes in 1mins 21secs. Turkey’s Sahika Ercumen extended her nationwide CWT account to 90m/295toes in 2mins 55secs. Canada’s Sheena McNally plight a CWTBF nationwide account with an 88m/289toes dive in three minutes and 5 seconds, whereas Jung A Kim plight a South Korean nationwide CWTBF account with an 84m/276toes dive in three minutes twenty seconds.
Strive the total outcomes below.
The birth list for Day 5 sees one World Characterize strive and 7 Nationwide Characterize attempts. The total birth list is below:
Featured Image courtesy of Daan Verhoeven.
Further reporting by Stephan Whelan
