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Freedive records set
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New Zealander William Trubridge and Briton Sara Campbell have set new world and national records in unassisted freediving.
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On 11 April, Trubridge dived to 82m in the sport's Constant Weight Without Fins category. Observed by freediving governing body AIDA, Trubridge had already dived to 81m on 9 April, to break the 80m record of Czech Martin Stepanek. Two days later he made the 82m dive.
Trubridge dived at Dean's Blue Hole off Long Island, Bahamas. At 202m, Dean's is the world's deepest known oceanic blue hole and second-largest submerged cave.
On 3 April Sara Campbell, of the British Freediving Association, set a new British women's Constant Weight Without Fins record of 30m, beating Olivia Phillips' 27m mark. The world record is 55m, held by Russian Natalia Molchanova.
Campbell (pictured) started freedive training in Dahab, Egypt only a year ago, and made her record dive at her first competitive meeting, a Dahab-based competition sanctioned by AIDA. She had suffered a seven-month bout of hepatitis A, and resumed training only a week before the Dahab event.
Constant Weight Without Fins is an athletically demanding discipline in which the diver descends and ascends as a pure swimmer, with no aid except for the line.
The exception is that the diver can carry a weightbelt - but must return to the surface with whatever weight is chosen, necessitating an accurate pay-off calculation between ease of descent and difficulty of ascent.
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