Freediving: Frenchman Arnaud Jerald breaks the world record in bi-fins at 125 meters

Two years off and a return to the top. Frenchman Arnaud Jerald broke the freediving world record by diving to a depth of 125 meters in the constant-weight twin-fin category in the Bahamas on Monday, July 1, organizers announced.
The 29-year-old from Marseille spent 3 minutes and 54 seconds underwater on the first day of Vertical Blue, a prestigious gathering of the world's best freedivers at Dean's Blue Hole, a 202-meter-deep natural blue hole on the east coast of the Bahamian island of Long Island.
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"I was stressed the day before, I had hardly slept, but when it came to putting my head underwater I managed to concentrate. It had been a long time since I had gone to these depths in competition," said Arnaud Jerald.
The freediver, who set his ninth world record on Monday, had put his competitive career on hold until 2023 to focus on his private life. "Getting back to my best was the goal this year," he said, "relieved that it went well." "Beyond a certain depth, it gets completely dark. I could only see the reflections of my little headlamp on the tarpon scales around me. They are impressive fish," the Frenchman explained.
With this record stamped CMAS (World Confederation of Underwater Activities), one of the leading federations for deep freediving along with AIDA (International Association for the Development of Freediving), the Frenchman improves by one meter the mark set by the Russian Alexey Molchanov in Honduras in August 2023 (124 meters).
Constant weight means that the freediver descends and ascends using the same amount of weight, along a line. Bi-finning is considered a more physical activity, but less rapid than monofinning, where Molchanov reigns supreme with a record depth of 136 meters.
Libération