Francisco Ferreras

Francisco Rodriguez, better known as Francisco Pipin Ferreras, born on 18 January 1962 in Matanzas, Cuba, is a Cuban freediver known for deep diving and for his marriage to the freediver Audrey Mestre. He began freediving at the age of five, started in spearfishing and diving for black coral, and set his first world record at 27. He made his name in the No Limits discipline, with a first known record of 112 metres in November 1989, then defected to Italy and later settled in Florida. Over the 1990s he set a long series of records, often in rivalry with Umberto Pelizzari, a rivalry that became the 2001 IMAX film Ocean Men: Extreme Dive, and his last logged record dive reached 162 metres in January 2000.