Showing posts with label World Record in diving. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World Record in diving. Show all posts
New Zealand free diver William Trubridge battled the effects of narcosis to set a new world record in the Bahamas, diving to 116m without fins.
At great depths divers can suffer from nitrogen narcosis which produces a state similar to being drunk.
Diving in the Vertical Blue competition at Dean's Blue Hole, Long Island, the 29-year-old dived next to a vertical line using a form of breaststroke and spent 4 minutes 9 seconds under water, surfacing with a tag from the 116m mark.
The free-diving event runs until April 27.
Trubridge dives wearing a specially designed silicon-coated wetsuit.