Constant weight (CWT) is a
freediving
Freediving, free-diving, free diving, breath-hold diving, or skin diving, is a mode of underwater diving that relies on breath-holding until resurfacing rather than the use of breathing apparatus such as scuba gear.
Besides the limits of breat ...
discipline recognised by
AIDA
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, the International Association for the Development of Apnea, in which the freediver descends and ascends using their
monofin and/or with the use of their arms without pulling on the rope or changing their ballast; only a single hold of the rope to stop the descent and start the ascent is allowed.
[ Constant weight is one of the eight disciplines considered for international competition, the others being constant weight bi-fins (CWTB), constant weight without fins (CNF), static apnea (STA), dynamic apnea without fins (DNF), dynamic with fins (DYN), free immersion (FIM), and dynamic apnea bi-fins (DYNB).]
Current World Record Holders
* men: Alexey Molchanov (Russia
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), 133 metres in 4 minutes 13 seconds. (2023-06-30)Alessia Zecchini
Alessia Zecchini (born 30 June 1992) is an Italian freediver who has set world and Italian records in freediving.
At the age of 13, Zecchini completed her first federal apnea course in A.s.d. "Apnea Blu Mare". In 2009 she changed clubs and b ...
(Italia
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), 123 metres (2023-07-18)
References
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