Free immersion (FIM) is an
AIDA International freediving
Freediving, free-diving, free diving, breath-hold diving, or skin diving is a form 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 breath- ...
discipline in which the freediver dives under water without the use of propulsion equipment, but only by pulling on the rope during descent and ascent.
Performances may be done ''head first'' or ''feet first'' during the descent, or a combination of the two.
The current record holders are Petar Klovar (Croatia) with a depth o
132m (433ft) set on 6 Oct 2022 in Kaş, Antalya, Turkey,
William Trubridge
William Trubridge (born 24 May 1980) is a New Zealand world champion and world record holding freediver.
Trubridge was the first diver to go deeper than without oxygen and as of 2013 held the world record in the free immersion and constan ...
(New Zealand) with a depth of 124 meters (406 feet), set on 16 June 2016 in
Dean's Blue Hole,
Bahamas
The Bahamas (), officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the West Indies in the North Atlantic. It takes up 97% of the Lucayan Archipelago's land area and is home to 88% of the archi ...
and Sayuri Kinoshita (Japan) with 97 meters (318 feet), set on 26 July 2018 in the
Bahamas
The Bahamas (), officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the West Indies in the North Atlantic. It takes up 97% of the Lucayan Archipelago's land area and is home to 88% of the archi ...
.
See also
References
External links
AIDA disciplines definitionsWorld Record for William Trubridge "Free Immersion" -121 m (396,98 ft){{Underwater diving
Competitive apnea disciplines