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- By Stephen Weir
- Published 06/19/2008
- Diving Records...This Month
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Stephen Weir
Stephen Weir is a well-known Toronto based communicator. He has been writing and taking photographs for Diver Magazine for almost 30 years.
View all articles by Stephen WeirMore underwater world records….
We continue our on-going series of underwater fears with some hits and near-misses:
§ Underwater chess in Spain. Chess players donned scuba gear as they played underwater in a Spanish aquarium’s shark tank. Earlier this year the chess players set a world’s record while playing underwater in the Benalmadena’s Sea Life Aquarium, they were thereto promote the town’s Chess Festival.
§ For Peat’s sake. Snorkellers gets bogged down. A Welch teacher made her way into the record books earlier this year when she set the world’s record for the fastest time to swim through a bog! According to the BBC the winner is Joanne Pitchforth, a teacher and underwater hockey player.
“The annual event is held outside the small Welsh town of Llanwrtyd Wells,” reports the BBC. “Competitors clad in snorkels and flippers have to complete two lengths of a 60 yard trench cut through the peat bog without using conventional swimming strokes.” She won the World Bog Snorkeling Championship with a winning time of one minute 35:18 seconds.
§ Divers paint a new underwater record. This spring 44 diving artists painted the world’s longest underwater painting on a 56.4 metre canvas. According to a Malaysian government press release, the painting was created to commemorate World Earth Day.
“It was completed in three dives by 44 artists and divers from Malaysia and Singapore, which was also the first of such collaboration between the two nations,” read the press release.
A spokesman for the Malaysian National Arts Gallery Director of Exhibition and Services, Haned Masjak said the painting would be documented and showcased at its Gallery in Kuala Lumpur soon.
§ Record Not Set. Earlier last month, Canadian Press reported that Canadian free diving sensation Mandy-Rae Cruikshank failed in an attempt to break a world record for deepest dive in one breath. 33 year-old Cruikshank was in the Cayman Islands attempting a dive of 90-metres.
According to the Canada Press she “was approaching the surface after swimming 91 metres below the waves off Grand Cayman Island, when she was pulled from the water and resuscitated by her husband, free diving coach Kirk Krack.”
§ Record holder has time on his hands. UK diver Will Goodman has set a world’s record for staying underwater for a long long time. According to the Borehamwood Times, Goodman was in diving near Gili Trawangan, and managed to stay underwater for 33 and a half hours.
§ Underwater chess in Spain. Chess players donned scuba gear as they played underwater in a Spanish aquarium’s shark tank. Earlier this year the chess players set a world’s record while playing underwater in the Benalmadena’s Sea Life Aquarium, they were thereto promote the town’s Chess Festival.
§ For Peat’s sake. Snorkellers gets bogged down. A Welch teacher made her way into the record books earlier this year when she set the world’s record for the fastest time to swim through a bog! According to the BBC the winner is Joanne Pitchforth, a teacher and underwater hockey player.
“The annual event is held outside the small Welsh town of Llanwrtyd Wells,” reports the BBC. “Competitors clad in snorkels and flippers have to complete two lengths of a 60 yard trench cut through the peat bog without using conventional swimming strokes.” She won the World Bog Snorkeling Championship with a winning time of one minute 35:18 seconds.
§ Divers paint a new underwater record. This spring 44 diving artists painted the world’s longest underwater painting on a 56.4 metre canvas. According to a Malaysian government press release, the painting was created to commemorate World Earth Day.
“It was completed in three dives by 44 artists and divers from Malaysia and Singapore, which was also the first of such collaboration between the two nations,” read the press release.
A spokesman for the Malaysian National Arts Gallery Director of Exhibition and Services, Haned Masjak said the painting would be documented and showcased at its Gallery in Kuala Lumpur soon.
§ Record Not Set. Earlier last month, Canadian Press reported that Canadian free diving sensation Mandy-Rae Cruikshank failed in an attempt to break a world record for deepest dive in one breath. 33 year-old Cruikshank was in the Cayman Islands attempting a dive of 90-metres.
According to the Canada Press she “was approaching the surface after swimming 91 metres below the waves off Grand Cayman Island, when she was pulled from the water and resuscitated by her husband, free diving coach Kirk Krack.”
§ Record holder has time on his hands. UK diver Will Goodman has set a world’s record for staying underwater for a long long time. According to the Borehamwood Times, Goodman was in diving near Gili Trawangan, and managed to stay underwater for 33 and a half hours.