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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Three Do 217R versions were planned, the baseline Do 217R-0 powered by either DB 603As or BMW 801ML, the Do 217R-1 dive bomber/torpedo bomber, and the Do 217R-2 dive bomber. Four Do 217R prototypes were converted from existing airframes, the first of which flew on August 6, 1942, but the Do 217R did not go into production.
8 March 1973 (age 51) Aalborg, Denmark. Occupation. Freediver. Stig Åvall Severinsen (born 8 March 1973) is a Danish freediver. He is a four-time world freediving champion and holder of multiple Guinness World Records. He also wrote Træk Vejret – mere energi, mindre stress (2009), published in English in 2010 as Breatheology – The Art of ...
Natalia Vadimovna Molchanova ( Russian: Наталья Вадимовна Молчанова; 8 May 1962 – 2 August 2015) was a Russian champion freediver, multiple world record holder, and the former president of the Russian Free Dive Federation. Described as "possibly the world’s greatest freediver," Molchanova set an unparalleled ...
The Junkers Ju 87, popularly known as the "Stuka", [ b] is a German dive bomber and ground-attack aircraft. Designed by Hermann Pohlmann, it first flew in 1935. The Ju 87 made its combat debut in 1937 with the Luftwaffe 's Condor Legion during the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939 and served the Axis in World War II from beginning to end (1939 ...