New (inverted) dynamic apnea world record!

[trux]

Did you already realize that we freedivers have our alter-ego's in the underwater world too? Yes, just like we love doing our short apnea visits of their world under the surface, they do the same and use to ride short apnea trips above the surface. Yes, I am speaking about flying fish and their inverted apnea (and no, if you ask, flying fish does not breath air like some other fish species can do to certain extend. And although they perhaps may absorb little oxygen anyway through the gills, I believe it is fair calling it apnea).

Recently, a record flight of a fish was recorded on video in Japan. The fish was seen flying in parallel with the boat, which was moving at about 30km per hour. According to Junji Yonezawa at the Center for Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries on Outlying Islands, the flight time of 45 seconds beats the previous record of 42 seconds reported by an American researcher in the 1920s.

Well, the fish was able to continue flying by occasionally beating the surface of the water with its tail fin when it began to lose altitude, so we have to wait for AIDA's official statement, whether the records gets a white card, or rather some penalization for the fins touching the surface, but the performance is respectable anyway!

ITN - World record breaking fish?

YouTube - Amazing flying fish!

[ReefTroll]

45 seconds? Way to go little fish!! That's a pretty remarkable flight alright!

[QuIck ShOT]

ahh if only he had a mask and weight belt he might have gone atleast another 30 seconds or even caught himself a insect for dinner

[patrick.n]

Originally Posted by trux

Well, the fish was able to continue flying by occasionally beating the surface of the water with its tail fin when it began to lose altitude, so we have to wait for AIDA's official statement, whether the records gets a white card, or rather some penalization for the fins touching the surface, but the performance is respectable anyway!

I think breaking the surface is okay, long as his airways (waterways?) were completely submerged in the air.
going by those stats, we're looking at approx 375m dynamic. That's got to be a record?

[trux]

Well, AIDA penalizes breaching the surface, or touching the bottom, so let's hope AIDA jury tells us their verdict soon. However, the more serious problem could be the surface protocol - on the video it is not quite clear whether the fish completed it within 15 seconds after submerging.