Danai Varveri

Danai Varveri is a Greek freediver best known for her world record dive in 1999 to 40 metres, or 132 feet, without mask, fins or suit, in the discipline later established as constant weight without fins, which took her 71 seconds. The dive, made on 4 October 1999 when she was a 20 year old physical education student, inaugurated the Big Blue Games, a freediving competition held in Spetses, Greece, and was part of a mission to raise awareness of seabed contamination. It was the first in its category sanctioned by the Greek governing body for the sport, and some of its circumstances were the basis for the film The Freediver.