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20 April 1970 (age 54) Austria. Occupation (s) World Record Holder Free-diver and Air pilot. Herbert Nitsch (born 20 April 1970) is an Austrian freediver, the current freediving world record champion, and "the deepest man on earth" [ 1] having dived to a depth of 253.2 meters (831 feet). Nitsch has held 34 world records in all of the eight ...
Alessia Zecchini. Alessia Zecchini (born 30 June 1992) is an Italian freediver who has set world and Italian records in freediving. [ 1][ 2] At the age of 13, Zecchini completed her first federal apnea course in A.s.d. "Apnea Blu Mare". In 2009 she changed clubs and became an athlete of Dive Free Roma and Nuoto Belle Arti.
Freediving. Freediving, free-diving, free diving, breath-hold diving, or skin diving, is a mode of underwater diving that relies on breath-holding until resurfacing rather than the use of breathing apparatus such as scuba gear . Besides the limits of breath-hold, immersion in water and exposure to high ambient pressure also have physiological ...
Deep diving. Scuba diver using a rebreather with open circuit bailout cylinders returning from a 600-foot (180 m) dive. Deep diving is underwater diving to a depth beyond the norm accepted by the associated community. In some cases this is a prescribed limit established by an authority, while in others it is associated with a level of ...
Alexey Molchanov ( Russian: Алексей Олегович Молчанов, born 6 March 1987) is a Russian champion freediver, multiple world champion ( AIDA and CMAS ), world record holder, and freediving promoter. He is also president of the "Freediving Federation" association, head of freediving school named in honor of Natalia Molchanova ...
Trieste is a Swiss-designed, Italian-built deep-diving research bathyscaphe. In 1960, it became the first crewed vessel to reach the bottom of Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, the deepest point in Earth's seabed. [ 2] The mission was the final goal for Project Nekton, a series of dives conducted by the United States Navy in the Pacific ...
On 25 July 2013, FINA Technical Swimming Congress voted to allow world records in the long course mixed 400 free relay and mixed 400 medley relay, as well as in six events in short course meters: the mixed 200 medley and 200 free relays, as well as the men's and women's 200 free relays and the men's and women's 200 medley relays. [6]
Highest military expenditure, share of GDP. The following lists are lists of countries by military spending as a share of GDP - more specifically, a list of the 15 countries with the highest share in recent years. The first list uses the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute as a source. The second list gets its data from the ...