Ocean Science Professor Claire Paris broke two USA national records whereas concurrently setting her first-ever Pan-American freediving narrative on the 2022 AIDA South Florida Apnea Mumble (held Saturday June 11 on the Herbert Wellness Center of the University of Miami).
Pan-American records embody all of North, Central and South The United States and the Caribbean national records. Within the main morning session, Paris enviornment a fresh Dynamic No Fins (DNF) narrative with a swim of 147m/482feet in 3 minutes 11 seconds.
Within the 2d session, Paris swam 182m/600feet in 3 minutes and 7 seconds in the Dynamic Apnea BiFins (DYNB) discipline and surpassed both the Males’s and Ladies folk’s USA Nationwide Records.
Fixed with Paris:
“These records are very special since they’re the main as grandmother of Naomi June. She represents hope for our future. Her era may per chance well well no longer ever allow marine mammals in captivity, will procure no elegance in stolen freedom and can also like the sign of wilderness.”
She provides:
“I dedicate on the present time’s records to the orca Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut, know as Lolita. Swimming in a limited tank for 52 years of her life she taught us resilience, patience, and kindness. It is now time to bring her abet home to the Salish Sea where her mom and pods awaits.”
Paris credit many others for her accomplishment:
“It takes work discipline to get right here, but I will also never be pleased done this by myself or without loving being underwater by myself! Placing off digital boundaries is the damage consequence of crew work. I thank my coaches Mirela Kardasevic for laborious core dynamic coaching, and Tom Peled for instructing me breathe and get stronger to reinforce my efficiency. And most of all I’d desire to particular my gratitude for my unfailing and supportive husband.”
That is Paris’s ninth USA Nationwide File (NR) and first legit Continental File (CR) and Pan-American File. Her DNF narrative surpasses the earlier Ladies folk’s USA narrative of 142m/466feet enviornment Would possibly well also 6, 2016 by Jacquelyn Dent on the Australian Pool Nationals. The DYNB narrative surpasses Paris’s beget USA NR of 159m/522feet enviornment on December 19, 2021 on the AIDA Tampa Bay Apnea Pool Opponents.
Ricardo Paris, a freediving instructor coach and President of USA Freediving, is Claire Paris’s husband and the organizer of the annual South Florida Apnea Mumble. He says:
“Claire is highly fervent about both freediving and science and excels in both fields. I’m persistently impressed by her, but these legit records are no longer a shock — they’re correct the damage consequence of her laborious work and dedication. She is an inspiration to her college students and fellow freedivers.”
