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Deep down into the big blue

By Xing Yi | China Daily | Updated: 2016-10-29 07:01

Deep down into the big blue

Zhuang Ni (center), a Chinese instructor, teaches an introductory course of freediving in Ying Tung Natatorium in Beijing. [Photo by Xing Yi/China Daily]

In April, during one of the sport's most important competitions, the Vertical Blue Freedive Challenge, held at one of the world's deepest blue holes, Dean's Blue Hole in the Bahamas, Wang dived to 85 meters in the constant weight section, setting a Chinese record.

In another competition in Bali, Indonesia, in August, he improved on that, diving to 96 meters. The world record of the discipline is 128 meters, held by Alexey Molchanov of Russia.

"It has opened a door for me to another world," says Wang, who quit his job in finance and founded one of a few emerging freediving clubs in China, Freefall, in 2014.

Deep down into the big blue

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