Follow us on Telegram for the latest updates: https://t.me/mothershipsg A Singaporean woman has set a new national freediving record at the International Association for the Development of Apnea (AIDA) Panglao Pool Championship Finale in the Philippines on Apr. 23, 2022. Patricia Paige Ong, 32, recorded a dive of 174m and came in second in her women’s Dynamic with Bi-fins event. Broke previous record by 8m The Dynamic with Bi-fins event, or DYNB for short, is a discipline in freediving where a diver attempts to travel a horizontal distance underwater in a single breath, and with the use of bi-fins. Ong successfully dived a distance of 174m, breaking the previous national record of 166m held by Elys Lai. For this dive, Ong held her breath for 2 minutes and 41 seconds. Though in a distance discipline like this one, the time taken is not measured. Some divers may choose to swim faster or slower, balancing between swimming too fast and burning oxygen faster, or swimming too slowly and not covering enough distance before having to resurface. Ong has held her breath for more than 5 minutes and 30 seconds outside of competitions. Ong started freediving two years ago, and has competed… Read full this story
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