Freedivers experience apnea — no movement of the muscles of respiration — and the pressure causes their lungs to shrink to the size of a baseball 29-year-old William Trubridge from New Zealand set a new freediving record on Sunday, reaching a depth of 116 metres (380 feet ) in the Atlantic Ocean, holding his breath for four minutes nine seconds — breaking the world record for the deepest free immersion dive. Wearing a silicon-coated wetsuit, Trubridge plunged into world's deepest blue hole in a bay west of Clarence Town on Long Island , Bahamas. Dean's Blue Hole is 202 metres (663 ft) deep. Using breaststroke and fins to decend, he said “It was hard to get the tag from the bottom as I struggled with some narcosis ". "[I] wasted some time fumbling for the tag, then set off for the surface. I had to use my arms a little from 20m". This record was for "Constant Weight Apnea with fins", where the diver cannot drop any weights during the dive, and follows a guide line, but cannot touch it. They may use fins to descend, but on the ascent they pull themselves up with the rope. Divers retrieve a velcro tag from a metal plate placed at a certain depth. The record was previously held by Austrian Herbert Nitsch , who reached a depth of 92m (301ft) on 19 April 2010. The 'no limits' record, in which competitors can use a weighted sled, is 214m (702 ft).
experience — no movement of the muscles of respiration — and the pressure causes their lungs to shrink to the size of a baseball 29-year-old from New Zealand set a new record on Sunday, reaching a depth of 116 (380 ) in the Atlantic Ocean, holding his breath for four minutes nine seconds — breaking the world record for the deepest free immersion dive. Wearing a silicon-coated wetsuit, Trubridge plunged into world's deepest in a bay west of on , Bahamas. is 202 metres (663 ft) deep. Using breaststroke and fins to decend, he said “It was hard to get the tag from the bottom as I struggled with some ". "[I] wasted some time fumbling for the tag, then set off for the surface. I had to use my arms a little from 20m". This record was for "Constant Weight Apnea with fins", where the diver cannot drop any weights during the dive, and follows a guide line, but cannot touch it. They may use fins to descend, but on the ascent they pull themselves up with the rope. Divers retrieve a tag from a metal plate placed at a certain depth. The record was previously held by Austrian , who reached a depth of 92m (301ft) on 19 April 2010. The 'no limits' record, in which competitors can use a weighted sled, is 214m (702 ft).
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