Simone Arrigoni

Simone Arrigoni is an Italian freediver born in Rome on 4 September 1973 who holds multiple freediving world records. He has devised new dynamic apnea specialities, including Horizontal Free Immersion, created in 2009 so that disabled people can take part, and Dolphin's Breath, a monofin dive along a set distance with as few single breaths at the surface as possible. His records include dynamic dives without fins in the sea, under ice and in a lake, dives with a diver propulsion vehicle, and several dives pushed by dolphins at Zoomarine in Italy, for which he has worked with biologists on the comparative physiology of humans and dolphins. He is an ActionAid ambassador, a photographer whose work has won awards, and the author of a self-published autobiography.