In April 2009 the Bahama Islands saw a competition in apnea diving in which some world records were broken, both in the men and women categories. Especially one diver from Austria and one from New Zealand had a field day, since they both broke current world records in the main depth disciplines, setting the goal for others a lot further again.

These are the current world records which Martin Štěpánek wants to beat from 22nd to 30th May 2009 in Sharm El Sheik in Egypt:

• Constant weight apnea – 120 metres (the record held by Herbert Nitsch)
• Constant weight apnea without fins – 88 metres (the record held by William Trubridge)
• Free Immersion – 109 metres (the record held by Herbert Nitsch)

Aida International association selected Jonas ANDERSSON from Sweden and Panagiota BALANOU from Greece to judge Štěpánek’s attempts.

These attempts to break world records were made possible for the second time thanks to a considerable support by SONY Corporation under the name SONY Free like.no.other 2009 and by Aquasoft which is also the official partner of the Czech free-diving national team. The records are under auspices of F.I.I. (Free-diving Instructors International).

Complete press release for download TZ_30_04_09_en.pdf (548kB)