54-year-old Peter Balck has beaten his own previous record and dived 106 meters straight down – on one breath.
His previous record was 103 meters, set last year. The time was 3 minutes and 2 seconds.
"It was a brutal dive! I've been training all year for this, so I'm super pleased it was 106, which is also a Nordic record", Balck writes to TT.
However, Balck's Swedish record in the discipline known as CWT is still a good way off the world record of 130 meters. It was set in the Bahamas in 2018 by Russian Alexej Moltjanov. The dive took just over four minutes.
The world record for holding one's breath underwater, without diving (static apnea), is 11 minutes and 33 seconds.
