Today at 4p.m. Martin Štěpánek descended to the depth of 122m thus setting a new world record. The dive lasted 3 minutes and 36 seconds.

By this feat, Martin Štěpánek has become the holder of a world record in constant weight freediving with fins for the fifth time. By descending to 122m Martin broke Herbert Nitsh's current record.

But the record week doesn't end just yet. Martin still wishes to set new records in two other freediving categories: constant weight apnea without fins and free immersion.

current records are:
cnf – 88m held by William Trubridge
fim – 109m 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).