Freediving 24hr relay World Record - 108.2 km

[trux]

Freediving Team Ostrava (Czech Republic) is planning to set a new world record in 24 hours relay dynamic apnea (sanctioned by Guinness). On 9th march, in training for the event, simulated in two lanes for 12 hours, they've set unofficial record of 108 200 meters. In each lane the were two teams of four freedivers, shifting each hour. The real attempt will take place on March 29th - 30th, in Ostrava.


More info can be found (in Czech) on the team's website. TV will be present, so hopefully some videos will be available online.

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Good Luck!

[alexrom1207]

Like Le Mans but for freedivers....interesting idea.

[rogam44]

Photogalery from the event:
Jarouskova fotogalerie - 12 hours relay Ostrava 9.3.2008
It was tough, but we have done it.

[jome]

Be sure to break the unofficial record of 94km

We've been having this sort of event 3 years in a row now. The emphasis has been "fun for everyone", I'm sure that breaking 94km will be pretty easy if you're taking it even half seriously. But it's really fun - I highly recommend it and wish you good luck! I think this kind of event is really great for generating a little bit interest and for for example big potential as charity events etc...

:: SUNKEN LOGS Freediving (in finnish only, but you get the picture)

[littlefreediver]

Wow, sounds like a lot of fun and great monofin practice! Good luck everyone, I'll be watching this with interest (on my birthday

xxx
Sara

[Kars]

Just wait for when the Danes hear of this Discipline!

Oh and sara, I can really recomment try the 16x50m It's fun and a quick way of training, especially if you got a good coach giving you the countdown and suggestions of improvements each time you come up. It help greatly to improve CO2 tolerance too.

What's the 16x50m world record for women?
For men it's Michael Asp's with a time of 11'16"

BTW, 108,2KM is not easy I think. In 24hours there are 86400 seconds, so on average people have to swim 1,2523 m/seconds or les than 40 seconds for a 50m lane, for 24 hours!

Perhabs I glanced over something vital?

Greetings,

Kars

[Evita]

Sounds like a fine flow event, good luck with breaking the 100.

I believe Jarmila Slovencikova holds the 16*50m record for women: 14:43 (Berlin 2006)

[martin_gk]

Originally Posted by Evita

I believe Jarmila Slovencikova holds the 16*50m record for women: 14:43 (Berlin 2006)

That is corect. She was the fastest women in Berlin so far. While our records go way back I do not know of any results in this discipline outside Berlin.

Dose anyone know about this disciplin in other places?

[trux]

There was another 24hr relay made by the Fins in 2006. If I understand correctly, they did 90,940 m.

The original website (http://www.markkuanttila.com/sunkenlogs/sltv/) hosting a video, photos, and documents about the even is unfortunaly no more online, but I found a copy of the document in Finnish:

http://web.mac.com/markkuanttila/iWe...h_19112006.pdf

[rogam44]

New benchmark for 24 hours dynamic apnea relay has been set. 16 members of Freediving team Ostrava did 121496,3 meters in one day. Average time for 50m lane was 35,56 seconds.

I will add some photos from this event later.

[trux]

Wow! Congrats, guys! Incredible performance! It won't be easy to beat. Any video available? Will it be on the Czech TV News? The photos I saw were mostly with bi-fins - how many freedivers were using bi-fins and how many had a monofin? What was the fastest / slowest lap? Please post any other details, including description how you organized sleeping, eating, etc. Were all freedivers from your Ostrava Team, or were there any guests from other Czech clubs? Very interesting event.

[rogam44]

I hope there will be some videos from this record attempt. I will post them here as soon as they will be available online.
Well, as I count correctly 10 people from team used monofins. Some of them sometimes switched to bi-fins due to leg condition. Although the others are using bi-fins just two of bi-finners are using scissor kicking style, others are using monofin style.
For statistics we have a pre-programmed excel sheet, so we have all laps well documented. The fastest lap was 21.89 seconds by Tomaš Hlaváč it was done with laminate bi-fins. The slowest lap was 51 seconds and this one with monofin.
All participants were members of our team, there were no guests from other teams.
Sleeping and eating was self organized. I think everybody found some quiet place at the pool where he could take a rest. Nobody was complaining and nobody missed his leg of swimming so I thik this went ok. In case of eating we had this 12 hours test, so everybody know what to eat and drink to survive without any harm. Before 12 hours attempt this question what to eat was a bit unknown territory because nobody had experience with such event.
Needful things was doubled. We had two notebooks with excel programs. For comparison of covered distance we had a hand written statistics. We had two people on the side of the pool to keep an eye on freedivers.
Now we will try to make some detailed statistics about overal progression and average speeds of each freediver. I will post them here as they will be available.

Regards Jiri B.

[trux]

Thanks, Jiri, for the detailed info. 50m in 21.89s with bi-fins, that's incredible! Are you sure the judge did not misread his stopwatch? My amazement goes not only to the freedivers, but also to those who counted and measured the laps and entered the data into the spreadsheet. I am not quite sure if it is not even harder than the actual swimming!

So, am I right that the previous record (though probably not supervised by Guinness) was 94km held by the Fins? Or was there any other record? It would mean beating it by almost 30% (more than 27km)! Do you know how many they were swimming in the 24hr relay? (Jome, if you check in, please let us know)

Looking forward to the video. I searched on the website of the Czech TV, but although news are available online, for some reason they do not include the sport block.

Seeing the stats will be certainly interesting too

Thanks, and congrats!
Ivo

EDIT: I will ping Sara - I think this event is worth of a news article on DB. And also Bill Stromberg will likely want to add it to his page of diverse records at Apneamania

[trux]

Ah, there is now a video from the event, on Youtube:

YouTube - 24 hours apnea dynamic relay

[jome]

Congratulations, that's pretty cool!

Trux: I'm not aware of any other attempts, and I think comparison is a bit vague since there is no specific rules. Or at least in our case, the rules are very relaxed. The idea has been that "anyone can contribute", so it's more of a event to gather all freedivers into once place with a good excuse. Some swam several km, others 15m (young child) - basically the only rule was that every meter must be covered under water and only one diver a the time moves. By the way it is a pretty surreal feeling spending 24h in a pool - I highly recommend it! It's not that hard to organize either. You need a pool, you need people, and then you dive a lot (of course official wr attempt is a bit more complicated)

Some statistics available here: Google Docs - Sunken Logs 24H 2007 Tulokset

21.89 with bifins is pretty impressive - I wonder is there a world record in bifins sprint and what would it be? (I'm sure finswimmers can go faster, but that's pretty good). Was this with dolphin kicks or normal bi-fin kicks?