World Underwater Records!!
Records reported to have been set during 2007
Dinner Party - close to 500 people are reported to have put on tuxedos, formal gowns and dive gear and jumped into the Park Club swimming pool in West London to set a record for taking part in the largest sub-aqua dinner party. 40 PADI dive masters supervised the event and donned scuba gear to serve the dinner guest a three-course meal of salmon, crab and hazelnut praline packed in jelly. The previous record for diner guests eating a three-course meal underwater was just 100 (set in 1991) there is no doubt that a record has been set.
Pogo sticking and Hula hoop world records - Serial record setter New Yorker Ashrita Furman accomplished two underwater world records in just one day. He dove into the Nassau County Aquatic Center New York, and broke the world record for underwater pogo sticking by travelling 1,680 feet on his pogo stick at the bottom of the pool. He returned to the pool later that same day and broke his own record for continually hula hooping underwater, at 2 minutes 38 seconds (18 seconds longer than his original record).
Underwater Golf - Five scuba diving golfers have set a world’s record by competing in an underwater golf tournament. The first eversubsurface golf tournament was staged in a 50 ft deep tank in the Zuohai Aquarium in Fuzhou City China. The “aqua players were judged on how long it took them to complete the hole rather than the number of strokes taken.” The winning putt was made in one minute and 20 seconds
Free-Diving record (depth) - New Zealander William Trubridge (27) from Hawkes Bay set a new world free-diving record by reaching an unassisted free-dive depth of 81m, shaving a metre off the previous record set by Czech diver Martin Stepanek in 2005.
Free-Diving record (distance) - New Zealander Mullins set a free-diving record for length rather than depth. He swam 244 metres underwater on one breath, bettering his record by 18 metres. Mullins swam nonstop for four minutes and two seconds.
Scootering down a freshwater cave - A Florida team of Weeki Wachee Springs cave divers took underwater scooters 407 feet down to the base of an underwater mountain known as Mount Doom. Believed to be a record by exploring the deepest underwater, spring-connected tunnel in the United States; more than 6,700 feet of underwater tunnels were explored beyond the source of the river.