Karol Meyer

Karoline Mariechen "Karol" Meyer is a Brazilian freediver, born on 19 October 1968 in Recife, Pernambuco. She competes in apnea, the discipline of diving on a single held breath, and is credited with a Guinness World Record for a 100 metre dive lasting 18 minutes and 32 seconds, as well as a third place world ranking in the variable weight discipline after reaching 93 metres. Brazilian sports coverage describes her as the first Brazilian woman athlete to set world records and as the winner of more titles than any other athlete in the country's sporting history. She is also noted as the first diver in the freediving community to break a world record during an official competition. Across her career she took 13 victories in international events and 7 in national events, and in 2003 she became the first apnea diver to reach one of the deepest shipwrecks in the world, diving 63 metres to the Corvette Ipiranga.