Variable weight with monofin, women

What to remember

Sharm el Sheik, Egypt, June 25, 2022: Serbia's Lena Balta went down to 116 m in variable weight with a monofin. It is the women's world record for the discipline, recognised by CMAS and set at sea.

Some marine mammals go much deeper: the sperm whale, the southern elephant seal and the northern bottlenose whale dive beyond 2,000 m on a single breath, and Cuvier's beaked whale approaches 3,000 m. All of them share, to varying degrees, the same diving reflex as humans.

Among freedivers, competition is about depth, time or distance, always on one breath. Variable weight with a monofin belongs to the depth events.