It wasn’t acknowledged by AIDA but it was sanctioned by the U.S. Freediving Federation and the World Confederation of Underwater Activities. Medals, bragging rights and AIDA records were at ...

Fellow Taiwanese freediver Lee Po-yen briefly held the Asian DNF record with a 202m swim at the same championship before Chan ...

Paik competed under the International Association for Development of Apnea, or AIDA -- a French-born organization that has judged freediving records since its founding in 1992.

Freediving involves diving underwater — often in deep water— without using any breathing apparatus. Malaguti is a Canadian freediving record holder in the Aida Freediving World Cup , diving to ...

AIDA International, the world’s most popular freediving certification agency, reported in 2020 that Taiwan—a self-governing island slightly bigger than Maryland—received the second most ...

A freediving trainer, she currently holds the national record for freediving, at 41m without fins, which she accomplished at the International Association for the Development of Apnea (AIDA ...

Luca Malaguti professionally freedives and teaches others in the Sea to Sky how to explore under the water's surface. While oceans make up about 70% of the Earth's surface, more than 80% of it has ...

Burning desire for freediving: Suzy Malseed at the freediving world championships in Jeju, South Korea, when she had just set a New Zealand record for distance covered in the dynamic bifins event.