Shark Freediving

This weekend there is the Wellington Winter Champs in New Zealand. It consists of a 2 day pool competition and as you know I normally post results about weekend competition when they are over. But when results like this are already being done on day 1, it is for sure interesting to have a look what is going on over there.

Dave Mullins

5 national records! And if the correct type of judge was present the competition would have world record status and we would have 2 new world records as well. Dave Mullins improved the current world record in dynamic without fins with 18 meter to 232 meters. Kathryn McPhee did a 152 meter dynamic without fins, breaking her own world record by 1 meter. Guy Brew set a new national record in Static with a big 9:03 breath hold, which is the longest ever in competition.

All in all amazing results already in this competition. I’m curious what day 2 will bring. And it’s good to see Suzy Osler (formerly known as Kensignton) back into action! Bring on day 2! Press release about day 1 below.

An astonishing day first up, with five national records and some huge dives. Guy Brew kicked things off with a massive 9:03 static, with Dave Mullins doing a 232m no fins dynamic; 18m more than his current world record! Kathryn McPhee followed up with a 152m dive, pushing her national record out to 1m more than her world record, then Ruth Griffin and Suzy Osler both chimed in with dynamic records for their respective countries; with 164m for Britain and 188m for New Zealand. Phil Clayton also missed out on a British dynamics record when he blacked out at 191m.

Conratulations to all the divers, there were impressive performances across the board. Also a big congrats to our recreational grade divers: Darrell, Joy, Sam and Graham!