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Freediver Valentina Cafolla bagged herself a new Guinness World Record by ice diving to a depth of around 140 metres with a single fin without oxygen.

The Croatian diver set the new record only 36 hours after Japanese diver Yasuko Ozeki set the previous record. Cafolla went in the Guinness World Records when she set the previous record of 125 meters in 2017, but it was broken by Ozeki.

The record was set at Laco di Anterselva in Italy and broke the previous record of 126 metres. Cafolla set the record on a day when it was cloudy and snowing with the air temperature at -3 degrees Celsius and the water temperature at 1 degree Celsius.

Freediving is a very dangerous sport that relies on breath-holding until resurfacing rather than a breathing apparatus such as scuba gear. Besides the limits of breath-hold, immersion in water and exposure to high ambient pressure also have physiological effects that limit the depths and duration possible in freediving.

 

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Check out The Deepest Breath, a documentary on Netflix about the perils of freediving and the addiction to taking just that little bit further every time:

[source:euronews]