Claire Paris, Evan Walther Smash US National Pool Freediving Records

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Clair Paris and Evan Walther only in the near past every living new girls folk’s and men’s US nationwide pool freediving records in the Dynamic with Bifins self-discipline.

In December, Paris shattered and prolonged the Dynamic Bi-Fins document by 11 meters with a efficiency of 159m/521toes in 2 minutes 40 seconds on the AIDA Tampa Bay Apnea Competition Yule Model.

Here’s Paris’ sixth Nationwide File in pool disciplines. She additionally broke a CMAS USA Nationwide File in depth with a Free Immersion (FIM) dive to 75m/246toes on the Vertical Blue completion in Long Island, Bahamas earlier that 365 days.

Paris acknowledged of the document:

“I preserve getting inspired by proper and spectacular competitors luxuriate in Talya [Semrad]. In this final competitors of the 2021 freediving season I surpassed my earlier DYNB document from Could per chance, with a stable efficiency all the device by technique of. Natalia Molchanova extinct to say that freediving is ready reaching emotions, not distances or depths. No longer every Nationwide File is equal, this one was once all about emotions, taking a peek inward and surrendering into my connection with water. The 2d after the dive was once additionally very emotional with warm embrace of my buddy Talya.”

Walther, for his phase, on the same competitors in December broke the united states DYNB document — twice. He swam 166m/544toes in 2 minutes 10 seconds on his first competitors dive, and which capacity truth swam 175m/574toes in 2 minutes 14 seconds the next day.

What a weekend,” Walther acknowledged:

“So infected to earn finished off the 365 days with my first comp, my first document, and my first take. Bigger than that I’m bowled over, amazed, and grateful how satisfactory, excellent, and caring the total freediving competitive community is. I came in not surely lustrous somebody, with no experience, and not remarkable of a clue. I left with guests, inspire from so called ‘rivals,’ and advice and encouragement from a pair of of the sphere’s best freedivers!”

Evan Walther (Image credit: John Oja)
Evan Walther (Image credit: John Oja)

John Lianghttps://www.deeperblue.com/

John Liang is the Files Editor at DeeperBlue.com. He first got the diving malicious program while in High College in Cairo, Egypt, the put he earned his PADI Start Water Diver certification in the Red Sea off the Sinai Peninsula. Since then, John has dived in a volcanic lake in Guatemala, amongst white-tipped sharks off the Pacific Wing of Costa Rica, and other areas including a pool in Las Vegas serving to to ruin the sphere document for the most indispensable underwater press convention.