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FreedivingSaudi Freediving Champion's Body Recovered

Saudi Freediving Champion’s Body Recovered

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Rescuers have found the body of Saudi freediving national champion Bassam Bakheet in the waters off Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Bakheet was training for a freediving competition when he went missing last Thursday, according to press reports.

His body was subsequently found on the sea floor, 81 meters (266 feet) below the surface.

In May 2017, Bakheet set a Saudi national record in the Free Immersion (FIM) discipline at an AIDA freediving competition in Egypt with a 71-meter/233-foot dive.

SourceArab News
John Liang
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John Liang is the News Editor at DeeperBlue.com. He first got the diving bug while in High School in Cairo, Egypt, where he earned his PADI Open Water Diver certification in the Red Sea off the Sinai Peninsula. Since then, John has dived in a volcanic lake in Guatemala, among white-tipped sharks off the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica, and other places including a pool in Las Vegas helping to break the world record for the largest underwater press conference.

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