Enzo Maiorca
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Enzo Maiorca (also spelled Majorca; born June 21, 1931) is an Italian multiple record holder in the extreme sport of free-diving.[1][2]
A native of Syracuse, Italy, he was a pioneer developer of free-diving in the 1960s and 1970s. Maiorca held 13 world records in the "No Limits" class of free diving between 1960 and 1974.
Maiorca was fictionalized in the 1988 Luc Besson film The Big Blue as well as his rivalry with the French diver Jacques Mayol.
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- ^ "Taking danger to a new depth". The Times. 12 February 2006. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article729361.ece. Retrieved 27 January 2011.
- ^ Ecott, Tim (2001). Neutral buoyancy : adventures in a liquid world (1st Grove Press paperback ed. ed.). New York: Grove Press. p. 317. ISBN 9780802139078. http://books.google.com/books?id=5Dw7htaxwtUC&pg=PA317&dq=Enzo+Maiorca+record#v=onepage&q=Enzo%20Maiorca%20record&f=false. Retrieved 27 January 2011.
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