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Diver Breaks Guinness World Record for Longest Dive Ever Recorded With One Breath
YB WEB DESK. Dated: 1/15/2021 12:05:31 PM
For the average person, not very much before we start gasping for air again. But for Danish free diver Stig Severinsen, he can make it 202 meters (or about 663 feet) underwater. Guinness World Records has announced that Severinsen has claimed the title for "longest distance swam underwater with one breath using fins (open water, male)." The 47-year-old achieved this goal on Nov. 26 in La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico, according to Guinness. The record was previously set back in 2016. Severinsen beat the previous record by 25 meters (about 82 feet). "When the world was hit by Covid-19 almost a year ago, I was looking for a way to show that the pandemic was not an excuse to forget our priorities for nature, or put our ambitions on standby," Severinsen told Guinness World Records. "On the contrary, my message is that the globe is an amazing place and that our body together with our brain can achieve the most incredible things. Rather than allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by fear.