On April 11 in the Bahamas concluded the championship Vertical Blue. These 11 days have brought a whole bunch of new world records in free-diving:

April 2 – Sara Campbell – CWT (dive with the constant weight in fins) – 96 meters
April 4 – Herbert Nitsch – CWT (dive with the constant weight in fins) – 114 meters
April 6 – Herbert Nitsch – FIM (free dive – on cable) – 109 meters
April 10 – William Trubridge – CNF (immersion with constant weight without fins) – 88 meters
April 11 – Herbert Nitsch – CWT (dive with the constant weight in fins) – 120 meters

The main hero of these events was Herbert Nittssh, who set a new world record in the final of the competition CWT, the previous record was established here by him a week earlier.

At the same time, in Dubai (UAE) was held international tournament of static-freediving. According the rules athlete should be immersed at depth of 2 meters without a costume and goods, masks, glasses and chronometer as long as he can. The tournament took place in sea where the water temperature was around 26 degrees. In the first round Russian sportsman Aleksey held his breath underwater for 6 minutes, 10 seconds, and in final he improved results making it 7 minutes. Congratulations on winning Aleksey!

«I put myself between Ryan and the shark, and had moment delay, hoping that it will leave, – explained the 32 year old diver – I noticed that the shark, circled around us, coming ever closer, and behaves aggressively. The shark made a roll and looked like it was going to charge us so I just went ahead and took the conservative route and put a shaft through its gills.

And Cameron, and I have are many years familiar with the sharks, experience is enought. But this time I had a special feeling. I clearly felt that a shark is looking for a lunch, but I was not satisfied that role. After the first shot in the gills, I realized that I need to bring the case to the end.

I shot at this fish, as in any other, and made every effort to kill her so quickly and humanely as possible. To harpoon a shark in the gills would have died anyway, so I tried to get into his head to achieve it rapidly. I shot her six times, but I was not lucky, so the process was delayed. Sharks are very tenacious of life – no wonder they have survived for millions of years. The best and fastest way to kill the shark – that tie her to the tail to the boat and drag it along until it dies. In the end had to finish her with a knife as soon as I was able to pick up quite close to him – after attempting to drown her».

Mr Klas is a freediver and underwater hunter, born in Mississippi, raised in a fishing family, and is an expert in all fishing disciplines.

Despite the experience, Dr. Klas m not very happy with the outcome. «This is one of those moments, which then you are sorry – explains Dr. Klas – Personally, I never kill what I do not want to eat. We saved the tail and head, cut a big piece and ate part of it.

I’m not going to hunt the shark, it was a protective effect, and I will do it again. Unfortunately, it was necessary, but it is not something to be proud of. So the circumstances. It was one of the rare cases where it was necessary to defend themselves.

At the Lake Lutvann near to Oslo (Norway) first time in the history will be held competition «Oslo Ice Challenge» – Free-Diving under the ice. This competition is recognized by the International Association for free-diving – AIDA.

Diving will take place in the hole 3 × 3-meter, water temperature is 2 ° C and visibility under the water – about 20 meters, the thickness of ice – 25 cm

Official website of the competition – www.fridykking.net/osloice.

P.S. Freediving is any of various aquatic activities that share the practice of breath-hold underwater diving ( source Wiki ).

Will be interesting to see results , the world record for men in 10 min 12 sec , jeez can you imagine not to breathe for 10 min , for women it is about 8 min. Though I’m not sure in what temperature they made freedive. Oh well I’m scuba fan , so I think this is enough