The earliest origin of free diving can be traced back to ancient times. In order to survive, people hold their breath, dive into the sea to touch snails, catch crabs and fish with homemade harpoons. In ancient times, due to the lack of oxygen supply equipment and backward technology, especially fishermen who lived on the island all the year round, held their breath to catch food in the sea at first, and then some people who loved this sport gradually became systematic and professional, creating the extreme sport of free diving. Nowadays, many countries still retain the ancient custom of holding their breath and diving to eat seafood.

The record of unrestricted diving first began at 19 19, when Raymond Butscher set a world record for 30-meter diving.

In 1953, Italians Alberto Novelli and Ennio Falco set a world record of 43m.

1965, Enzo Maaoka set a world record of 54m.

1970, Ma You set a record of 76 meters, 1976, and achieved the amazing achievement that the infinite diving depth of human beings exceeded 100 meters.

1983, 56-year-old Ma You announced his retirement from diving competition after setting the 10th world record of105m.

June 5438+October 2002 10, Audrey mistry, known as the "diving queen", tried to break the record of unsteady weight diving in Dominican waters. Because the buoyancy bag did not fully expand, it slowed down the floating speed, and Audrey began to faint at the depth of 130 meters, eventually leading to death.

On April 3, 2009, in London, England, British female diver Sarah Campbell set a new world record for free diving. She held her breath for 3 minutes and 36 seconds, dived 96 meters under the Atlantic Ocean in one breath, deeper than any female player, and returned to the surface alone without the help of airbags.

20 14, 18 On July 8, 38, a 38-year-old British female diver Coles held her breath in a swimming pool in Manchester for two and a half minutes and swam 587 feet (about 179 meters), breaking the British free diving record.