Johanna Nordblad

Johanna Nordblad, born in 1975, is a Finnish designer, ice diver and freediver. She began competing in freediving in 2000 and has taken part in world championships, setting a dynamic freediving record of 192 metres at the 2013 World Championships in Belgrade and a static breath hold of 6 minutes 35 seconds at the 2015 World Championships in Turku. She is best known for diving under ice: in 2015 she set a Guinness World Record by diving 50 metres under the ice of Lake Päijänne in a swimsuit and mask, and in March 2021 she swam 103 metres under 60 centimetres of ice in Lake Ollori without fins or wetsuit, a dive certified by CMAS and followed in the Netflix film Hold Your Breath: The Ice Dive. With her sister Elina Manninen she owns Greenwater Production, where she is art and creative director.