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William Trubridge is a world champion and double world record holding free-diver from New Zealand.

Trubridge currently holds the world record in the Free Immersion

Free Immersion

Free Immersion is a AIDA International freediving discipline in which the freediver dives under water without the use of propulsion equipment, but only by pulling on the rope during descent and ascent....

and the Constant Weight without fins

Constant Weight without fins

Constant Weight Without Fins is an free-diving discipline in which the free-diver descends and ascends by swimming without the use of fins or without pulling on the rope or changing his ballast; only a single hold of the rope to stop the descent and to start the ascent is allowed...

disciplines, and is the first human ever to break the 100m barrier unassisted.

World Records:

• 81 m (265.74 ft) Constant Weight without fins, 9 April 2007

• 82 m (269.02 ft) Constant Weight without fins, 11 April 2007

• 84 m (275.59 ft) Constant Weight without fins, 4 April 2008

• 107 m (351.04 ft) Free Immersion

Free Immersion

, 8 April 2008

• 86 m (282.15 ft) Constant Weight without fins, 10 April 2008

• 108 m (354.33 ft) Free Immersion, 11 April 2008

• 88 m (288.71 ft) Constant Weight without fins, 10 April 2009

• 90 m (295.27 ft) Constant Weight without fins, 3 December 2009

• 92 m (301.83 ft) Constant Weight without fins, 19 April 2009

• 116 m (380.57 ft) Free Immersion, 22 April 2010

• 95 m (311.67 ft) Constant Weight without fins, 26 April 2010

• 96 m (314.96 ft) Constant Weight without fins, 10 December 2010

• 100 m (328.08 ft) Constant Weight without fins, 14 December 2010

• 101 m (331.36 ft) Constant Weight without fins, 16 December 2010

• 121 m (396.98 ft) Free Immersion, 10 April 2011

Though Trubridge's passion lies in the depth disciplines, he accumulated the highest total number of points for an individual at the 2010 Freediving Team's World Championships held in Okinawa, Japan.

On 18 January 2011, Trubridge won the World's Absolute Freediver Award (WAFA) naming him best all around freediver, with the highest combined score in six freediving disciplines: 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...

, 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...

with fins, dynamic apnea without fins (pool disciplines), constant weight apnea with fins, constant weight without fins, and free immersion (depth disciplines).

Trubridge is an Apnea Academy instructor and he currently operates a freediving school and annual competition both called Vertical Blue

Vertical Blue

Vertical Blue is a freediving school that operates at Dean's Blue Hole, in The Bahamas, and is presided over by freediving world record holder William Trubridge...

at Dean's Blue Hole

Dean's Blue Hole

Dean's Blue Hole is the world's deepest known blue hole with seawater. It plunges in a bay west of Clarence Town on Long Island, Bahamas.-History:The full depth of the cave was reached by Jim King in 1992....

in Long Island, Bahamas

Long Island, Bahamas

Long Island is an island in the Bahamas that is split by the Tropic of Cancer. Its capital is Clarence Town. Long Island is one of the Districts of the Bahamas and is known as the most scenic island in the Bahamas. The population is roughly 4,000 inhabitants.-Geography:Long Island is about 130...

from September-May. During the summer he teaches courses in Europe and trains at Tenerife Top Training Center.

Trubridge is also sponsored by Suunto and Orca.

His website is www.verticalblue.net

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