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31st October 2022

Balbriggan Free Diver Sets New World Record in Turkey

A Balbriggan woman has set a new world record in free diving, as the Northside People reports.

Nina McGowan logged the deepest ‘no fins’ dive ever recorded for her age category at the CMAS Outdoor Freediving World Championships in Kas, Turkey in early October.

Her warm-up dive of 43 metres beat the previous world record by three metres — and she went on to win gold in her Masters class at the event while setting two other national records.

“When my coach suggested a world record was within my reach, I thought it was a crazy,” McGowan (50) said of her achievement.

“But because water is both my sanctuary and playground, anything is possible. The limitations of the land do not apply.”

The Northside People has much more on the story HERE.

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William M Nixon has been writing about sailing in Ireland and internationally for many years, with his work appearing in leading sailing publications on both sides of the Atlantic. He has been a regular sailing columnist for four decades with national newspapers in Dublin, and has had several sailing books published in Ireland, the UK, and the US. An active sailor, he has owned a number of boats ranging from a Mirror dinghy to a Contessa 35 cruiser-racer, and has been directly involved in building and campaigning two offshore racers. His cruising experience ranges from Iceland to Spain as well as the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, and he has raced three times in both the Fastnet and Round Ireland Races, in addition to sailing on two round Ireland records. A member for ten years of the Council of the Irish Yachting Association (now the Irish Sailing Association), he has been writing for, and at times editing, Ireland's national sailing magazine since its earliest version more than forty years ago