William Trubridge
William Trubridge (born on May 24, 1980) is a world champion and double world record holding free-diver from New Zealand.[1]
Trubridge currently holds the world record in the Free Immersion and the Constant Weight without fins 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, 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 (331.36 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, dynamic apnea 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 at Dean's Blue Hole in Long Island, Bahamas 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
References
- ^ NZPA (6 December 2009). "Kiwi sets new diving record". stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 6 December 2009.