Shark Freediving

Photo by Kerian Hibbs

Herbert Nitsch and William Trubridge decided that the world championships were not enough to cover their need for records. They both announced several freediving record attempts for the week after the world championships at the same location, Dean’s Blue Hole in the Bahamas.

From December 6 till 12 Herbert Nitsch announced record attempts in Free Immersion, Constant weight with and without fins and Variable Weight (currently at 140 meters by Carlos Coste).

In that same week William Trubridge announced Constant without fins, Free Immersion and Variable Weight as well.

I’m curious what is coming. Fact is that whatever record will be broken during the world championships, it won’t hold long with these two amazing freedivers attempting some deep divers in the week after!

While Yasemin Dalkilic is already training for some time for a new freediving record attempt, until now it was not clear yet which discipline she would attempt the record in, besides being a depth record.

Yasemin’s trainer, Rudi Castineyra, has revealed that she will attempt to do a 125 meter variable weight dive on December 27. That’s 3 meter deeper then the current AIDA record which is in hands of Tanya Streeter  since 2003.

There is ofcourse still the question if the record attempt will be ratified by AIDA or any other organization, but Rudi promised more on this later on their blog.

In the mean time Yasemin keeps training and just finished a training in Turkey where she already reached 92 meters without any problems, and if the weather would have permitted she would already have done 100 meters.

Good luck with training and preparation to Team Yasemin. More info on their website and facebook page.