If any female freediver has a likelihood of diving deeper than a male, Slovenia’s Alenka Artnik is perchance the one which would perchance presumably moreover attain it.
Writer Xan Rice, in a recent half on longlead.com, profiles Artnik and her mosey from shut to-suicidal despair to holding ladies’s world records in additional than one freediving self-discipline.
This previous July at the Vertical Blue opponents in the Bahamas, Artnik arrangement a sleek ladies’s world document in the Fixed Weight (CWT) self-discipline with a 122m/400ft dive, simplest nine meters lower than Russia’s Alexey Molchanov.
As Rice writes:
“With favorable nine meters of respiratory room between him and Alenka, Alexey now has opponents in the monofin tournament. What she talked about to him in jest six years ago, at the very birth up of her ocean-diving occupation, no longer appears like a shaggy dog memoir.
— One day I’ll fracture the document.
— Undoubtedly?
— Certain, your document.”
Are trying the beefy memoir — which ingredients photographs and video by Daan Verhoeven — right here.
(Featured describe credit: Daan Verhoeven)
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John Liang is the Data Editor at DeeperBlue.com. He first got the diving malicious program while in Excessive College in Cairo, Egypt, where he earned his PADI Originate Water Diver certification in the Pink Sea off the Sinai Peninsula. Since then, John has dived in a volcanic lake in Guatemala, amongst white-tipped sharks off the Pacific Toddle of Costa Rica, and other places collectively with a pool in Las Vegas helping to interrupt the enviornment document for the final phrase underwater press conference.
