Multiple World Records Set To Fall
Four Freediving World Records are poised to fall in two Wellington locations.
Saturday, August 9th through Wednesday , August 13th, four separate freediving world records and four national record are poised to fall at Trust Porirua Aquatic Centre, and Naenae Olympic Pools by two Wellington Free Divers in the Wellington Winter Champs hosted by the Lazyseal Freediving Club.
Kathryn McPhee and Dave Mullins have been training for the competition, in which it is likely they will attempt to break the freediving world records of Dynamic Apnea (completing underwater lengths in a pool with the use of a monofin) and Dynamic without Fins ( completing underwater lengths via self propulsion). McPhee must achieve a distance of 150m on one breath of air in the Dynamic without Fins discipline, while Mullins will be attempting a distance exceeding 213m. Mullins will also attempt to break his own World record of 244m in the Dynamic Apnea discipline.
29 Year old McPhee, an Architect from Wellington has been competitively freediving since 2005, and currently holds all New Zealand Womens freediving records. The latest of these records being the Dynamic No Fins record which was set in May 2008 at 150m, this record exceeds the current world record held by Natalia Molchanova from Russia. McPhee also has the Dynamic Apnea record in her sights, again this world record is currently held my Russia’s Molchanova at 205m
Mullins, a 27 year old Information management adviser and competitive freediver for 4 years, is the current world record holder in Dynamic Apnea, (244m) New Zealand Record holder in Dynamic without Fins (175m) and Constant Weight (108m) and won a Silver medal, in the AIDA World Constant Weight Championships 2007 (110m) The Current Dynamic Nofins world record of 213m was set 4 weeks ago by German Tom Sietas.