Freediver Natalia Molchanova’s ‘amazing’ achievements

Freediving is a form of underwater diving in which divers hold their breath instead of using a breathing apparatus such as scuba gear.

Natalia Molchanova, 53, was recreationally diving Sunday, with three others without fins, on the coast of Formentera, her son, Alexey, told the New York Times, and has yet to turn up.

The seek for free-diving nice Natalia Molchanova was set to renew Wednesday with little hope remaining she can be discovered alive greater than two days after disappearing off Spain’s Balearic islands.

Kimmo Lahtinen, who is the president of the free diving governing body AIDA, expressed disbelief with regard to Molchanova’s disappearance, per Skolnick.

Natalia Molchanova, the 53-year-old Russian champion freediver, is feared dead after going missing on Sunday.

Her family and friends say Molchanova may have been caught by a strong underwater current. “Natalia has a passion for freediving that burned so deep inside of her that she dedicated her life to it”. We are one with world.

The mother-of-two boasted a 9 minute breath hold, could dive to a depth of 101m using a fin and swim a distance of 234m, also with a fin. After a career as a competitive swimmer, she took up freediving at the age of 40 and proceeded to break numerous records in the sport. An instructor at the Russian State University of Physical Education, Sport, Youth and Tourism, Molchanova was also the author of numerous instructional manuals for free-divers and her own training program. “Free diving helps do that”.

In 2002, French diver Audrey Mestre, 28, died while on a free dive off the coast of the Dominican Republic to 171 metres when her lift balloon failed to bring her back to the surface before she ran out of air.