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50 m (164 ft) - Steve Bateman (United Kingdom), Dorothea Quarry, November 8, 2009. Steve is a member of the UK’s Magic Circle and the International Bureau of Magicians (IBM). He is also a PADI Master Instructor and he uses several card tricks at depths of 40m+ for testing skills, dexterity, co-ordination, and to check levels of narcosis. ... More...
World champion freediver; specializes in Unassisted Constant Weight, considered by many to be the purest form of apnea; freediving instructor; first non-Italian instructor at Umberto Pelizzari’s prestigious Apnea Academy in 2004.
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