Tom Sietas
Encyclopedia
Tom Sietas is a free diver
. He specializes in the "static apnea
" event, holding his breath under water, and the "dynamic apnea
" event, swimming the greatest possible distance underwater without breathing. Sietas started free diving in the year 2000. Since then he has set a large number of world record
s and won many titles.
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...
. He specializes in the "static apnea
Static Apnea
Static Apnea is an AIDA International discipline in which the freedivers hold their breath for as long as possible with their respiratory tracts immersed, their body either in the water or at the surface...
" event, holding his breath under water, and the "dynamic apnea
Dynamic apnea
Dynamic Apnea covers two of the eight categories recognised by the International Association for the Development of Freediving. That of Dynamic Without Fins and Dynamic With Fins...
" event, swimming the greatest possible distance underwater without breathing. Sietas started free diving in the year 2000. Since then he has set a large number of world record
World record
A world record is usually the best global performance ever recorded and verified in a specific skill or sport. The book Guinness World Records collates and publishes notable records of all types, from first and best to worst human achievements, to extremes in the natural world and beyond...
s and won many titles.
History of records
- 12/30/08: World record static apnea on pure oxygenOxygenOxygen is the element with atomic number 8 and represented by the symbol O. Its name derives from the Greek roots ὀξύς and -γενής , because at the time of naming, it was mistakenly thought that all acids required oxygen in their composition...
- 17:28min (Madrid, Spain) - 09/19/08: World record static apnea on pure oxygen - 17:19min (New York, USA)
- 07/02/08: World record in dynamic apneaDynamic apneaDynamic Apnea covers two of the eight categories recognised by the International Association for the Development of Freediving. That of Dynamic Without Fins and Dynamic With Fins...
without fins: 213m (Hamburg, Germany) - 06/07/08: World record in static apnea - 10:12min (Athens, Greece)
- 05/12/08: World record in static apnea - 9:15min (Mainz, Germany)
- 02/22/08: World record static apnea on pure - 16:14min (Madrid, Spain)
- 11/27/07: World record static apnea on pure oxygen - 15:16min (Peking, China)
- 08/09/07: World record static apnea on pure oxygen - 15:02min (New York, USA)
- 05/01/07: World record in static apnea - 9:08min (Hamburg, Germany)
- 08/30/06: World record static apnea - 9:00min (Tokyo, Japan)
- 08/29/06: World record in dynamic apnea - 223m (Tokyo, Japan)
- 12/30/06: Best freediver 2006 - ICARE Trophies 2006
- 08/27/06: World record in dynamic apnea without fins - 183m (Tokyo, Japan)
- 08/13/06: World record in dynamic apnea without fins - 182m (Hamburg, Germany)
- 03/15/06: World record in dynamic apnea without fins - 180m (Tokyo,Japan)
- 03/04/06: World record in dynamic apnea without fins - 176m (Maribor, Slovenia)
- 12/21/05: Best freediver 2005 - ICARE Trophies 2005
- 08/25/05: World champion in dynamic apnea (Renens, Switzerland)
- 07/10/05: World record in dynamic apnea - 212m (Loutraki, Greece)
- 07/10/05: World record in dynamic apnea without fins - 175m (Loutraki, Greece)
- 12/19/04: German record (unofficial world record) in dynamic apnea - 215m (Hamburg, Germany)
- 12/18/04: German record (unofficial world record) in dyn. apnea without fins - 175m (Hamburg, Germany)
- 12/12/04: World record in static apnea - 8:58min (Eindhoven, Netherlands)
- 11/20/04: German record in dynamic apnea - 186m (Berlin, Germany)
- 10/30/04: German record (unofficial world record) in static apnea - 8:56min (Wiesbaden, Germany)
- 08/12/04: World Champion in Constant WeightConstant WeightConstant Weight is an AIDA freediving discipline in which the freediver descends and ascends using his fins/monofin and/or with the use of his arms without pulling on the rope or changing his ballast; only a single hold of the rope to stop the descent and start the ascent is allowed...
and Static Apnea (Vancouver, Canada) - 08/12/04: German record in dynamic apnea - 180m (Vancouver, Canada)
- 08/08/04: German record in constant weight - 70m (Vancouver, Canada)
- 06/11/04: World record in static apnea - 8:47min (Hamburg, Germany)
- 06/10/04: World record in static apnea - 8:27min (Hamburg, Germany)
- 06/09/04: World record in static apnea - 8:12min (Hamburg, Germany)
- 05/09/04: German record in constant weight - 67m (Nice, France)
- 02/21/04: German record in static apnea: 7:48min (Berlin, Germany)
- 09/06/03: German champion in constant weight and static apnea (Dellach, Austria)
External links
- Current Freediving World Records
- Portrait
- Tom Sietas
- DeeperBlue.com Interview with Tom Sietas