Shark Freediving

Dave Mullins from New Zealand, Patrick Schnorf from Switzerland and Sara Campbell, our own guest writer from the UK, set some awesome new national records yesterday in Dahab, Egypt. Dave already did a clean and easy 95 meters a few days ago but topped that by doing a nice round number; 100 meters! So Dave is now officially the 5th deepest guy in the world in constant weight. And only 2 months ago he set a new personal best of 80 meters, so talk of progression here!

Dave had the following to say about it: “I did the 100m dive today in 3:43 with a clean SP. It was a pretty shocking dive really, I was really relaxed and focused so much on equalizing that I went way too slowly, hence the long dive time. Thank god there is no video of this one…. But at least it was a successful dive, though I have never experienced anything like that level of narcosis (the slow descent must have made it heaps worse).” You can watch a video of his 95 meter dive here.

Sara is also improving like crazy. Only into freediving for a year she’s already putting down very deep dives with her little body of only 1.52 meters tall. She started with a great 62 meter constant weight dive but improved that yesterday by doing 65 meters! Also she did a good 62 meters in free immersion. Great performances.

Patrick Schnorf from Switzerland had to leave early, but also managed to set two good national records; 70 meters constant weight and 70 meters free immersion. Excellent work as well.

Sara will post a personal article here soon about the event, so watch out for that!

Photos by Seamus Murray, video by Alain Bauermeister.