Tag: Şahika Ercümen

  • Turkish freediver Åžahika Ercümen breaks world record

    Turkish freediver Şahika Ercümen breaks world record

    Turkish diver Åžahika Ercümen broke a new world freediving record in the variable weight without fins discipline on July 23, off the coast of the Mediterranean resort town of KaÅŸ. Ercümen performed a 91-meter dive in 2 minutes and 49 seconds, taking the record from another Turkish diver, Derya Can, who broke it last year.…

  • Michele Tomasi to attempt longest dive under ice today

    Sunday 12th February 2012, freediver Michele Tomasi will attempt to break the current Guinness record of swimming a distance under ice (with monofin), at Lago Santo in Val Cembra (Trento – Italy). The record stands at 110 meters, swum by Turkish freediver Åžahika Ercümen in the Weissensee lake in Austria back in February 2011. Follow…

  • Time to freedive with Åžahika Ercümen

    26-year-old Åžahika Ercümen from Turkey is the Guinnes world record holder in the longest breath hold swim under ice (wearing fins and diving suit), with a 110 meter swim at Lake Weissensee, Austria, on 11 February 2011, beating both the women’s record of 70 meters and the men’s of 108 meters. Here is a nice…