Longest underwater swim

[burna]

Has anyone ever gone for a distance record underwater on scuba?

 

[dive_lover88]

well you could try...

 

[Rainer]

Wkpp.

 

[Riger]

Hmm, do you mean something like this ?

YouTube - William Trubridge freedives THE ARCH at Blue Hole, Dahab

 

[Walter]

AN EXPERIMENT IN MAINTAINING HOMEOSTASIS IN A LONG DISTANCE UNDERWATER SWIMMER.

Diving Almanac & Yearbook Blog: Our World-Underwater 2008

January 2008

Neal Watson, who swam 66 miles in 1978, holds the current record for the longest underwater swim. The record apparently remains unbroken, but Baldasare believes his proposed 250-mile dive is doable. "I could do it for my 85th birthday," Baldasare said in the Ocala Star Banner. "All I'd have to do is pace myself and get into the Gulf Stream."

 

[Blair Mott]

The Diving Almanac is the best! It has so much info in it I highly recommend it!
The Diving Almanac And Yearbook
There is a whole section on records!
66 miles (106 KM)
Neil Watson Freeport (Bahamas) to Florida coast!

 

[fisherdvm]

On One Breath??????

 

[Walter]

Yep, on one breath. Pretty amazing. (OK, so it was really on SCUBA)

 

[scubadale]

Yep, on one breath. Pretty amazing. (OK, so it was really on SCUBA)

So, one breath at a time.

 

[seaducer]

On a spare air no less! The nitrox version of course...