Patrick Musimu
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Patrick Musimu was a Belgian
free-diver
, Sport Business Mgr, Mkg & Event Mgr, former physiotherapist. On June 30, 2005, he cracked the previous "No Limit" world record in freediving by almost 40 meters, by diving to 209 meters of depth without the use of a breathing apparatus. Following his request, this dive was done without the supervision of the International Association for Freediving agency, from which Patrick Musimu dissociated since 2002. According to him extreme deep free diving should not be considered as a sport but as an adventure.
Musimu began diving in 1999 at the age of 28, intrigued by what he called "dolphin-men". His secret lies in years and years of training and preparation, but special attention should be given to his equalizing technique: instead of equalizing his ears by the regular maneuvers, he floods his air spaces (sinus and middle ears) with seawater before reaching the depth where ordinary equalization would become hard. He has a lung capacity of 9 litres and can hold his breath for more than 8 min 33 sec.
In Stan Lee's Superhumans, a show on History channel; he claims meditation and yoga to be the reason behind his apparent powers of holding breath.
On the 21st July 2011 Musimu died whilst pool training alone and was found by his wife and daughter.
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
free-diver
Free-diving
Freediving is any of various aquatic activities that share the practice of breath-hold underwater diving. Examples include breathhold spear fishing, freedive photography, apnea competitions and, to a degree, snorkeling...
, Sport Business Mgr, Mkg & Event Mgr, former physiotherapist. On June 30, 2005, he cracked the previous "No Limit" world record in freediving by almost 40 meters, by diving to 209 meters of depth without the use of a breathing apparatus. Following his request, this dive was done without the supervision of the International Association for Freediving agency, from which Patrick Musimu dissociated since 2002. According to him extreme deep free diving should not be considered as a sport but as an adventure.
Musimu began diving in 1999 at the age of 28, intrigued by what he called "dolphin-men". His secret lies in years and years of training and preparation, but special attention should be given to his equalizing technique: instead of equalizing his ears by the regular maneuvers, he floods his air spaces (sinus and middle ears) with seawater before reaching the depth where ordinary equalization would become hard. He has a lung capacity of 9 litres and can hold his breath for more than 8 min 33 sec.
In Stan Lee's Superhumans, a show on History channel; he claims meditation and yoga to be the reason behind his apparent powers of holding breath.
On the 21st July 2011 Musimu died whilst pool training alone and was found by his wife and daughter.