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William Trubridge

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William Trubridge, born on 24 May 1980, is a New Zealand world champion and former world record holding freediver, born in Northumberland, England and raised in New Zealand from the age of eighteen months. He was the first diver to go deeper than 100 metres without fins, and held the free immersion world record from 2010 to 2018 and the constant weight without fins record from 2010 to 2025. In January 2011 he won the World's Absolute Freediver Award as the best all-round freediver, and he scored the highest individual total, 313.3 points, at the 2010 Team World Championships in Okinawa. He runs the Vertical Blue school and competition at Dean's Blue Hole in the Bahamas, and is the subject of the documentary Breathe.

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