New Unusual World Record

Posted By Sara-Lise Haith on Tuesday Jun 17, 2008 @ 06:26 in Freediving

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An unusual and new Guinness world record was achived last weekend, where Czech freedivers had a eight divers breathing from a single regulator during an hour. It is a mixture of scuba and apnea.

The previous Guinness record of six persons held by another Czech team was beaten by a team of eight freedivers from Brno.

The record was done in the depth of 5m, the regulator was connected to twin 10 liters bottles filled to 250 bars. It was actually an hour long hypercapnic table with a single breath between apneas. They write that after the initial 10 minutes, the breathing rhythm stabilized on about 1 breath per minute for each.

You may know some of the names of the participants:

• Jarmila Slovenčíková
• Mirek Svačina
• Pavel Popelka
• Petr Tanner
• Roman Ondrůj
• Vladimír Tichý
• Vladimír Franc
• Petr Vala

This record was done during a competition which other disciplines, for example; backward swimming with fins, underwater text reading without a mask, hovering in limited space, etc. The competition is called Trygoniáda and was organized by the Trygon diving club in Brno, Czech Republic.

More information in Czech, and some more photos, can be found here:
AIDA CZ - freediving, nádechové potápìní
Centrum potápìní TRYGON BRNO
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