In all three cases, the athletes were reclaiming records they had previously owned but lost. There are three more
event days scheduled this week, and all indications are that more records will be set. If you’re interested,
don’t forget to follow Deeper Blue’s near real-time
coverage of the events.
For those of you who struggled just to get out of bed this weekend, I wanted to
let you know that several freediving records – including a
new World Record and 2 National Records – were smashed
this weekend. Not to rub it in or anything.
1 Freediving World Record, 2 Freediving National Records Set This Weekend
Finally, Dr. George 'Doc' Lopez secured a US National
Record for the Free Immersion discipline, down and up in the heads-up posture for 51 meters.
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1. Saw a report on Good Morning America and the depths are incredible. I have to give props for the amount of focus they have. I wonder if the lungs just burn doing that.
Posted at 8:28AM on Apr 5th 2006 by Jim Broersma