{"id":703,"date":"2021-11-07T11:06:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-07T11:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/?p=703"},"modified":"2021-11-09T19:04:54","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T19:04:54","slug":"patrick-musimu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/?p=703","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Musimu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Patrick Musimu <\/strong>(12 October 1970 \u2013 21 July 2011) was a Belgian freediver<\/strong>, sport business manager<\/strong>, marketing <\/strong>and event manager<\/strong>, and physiotherapist<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Patrick Musimu<\/span><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

He was born in Kinshasa<\/strong>, Zaire<\/strong>. On 30 June 2005, he beat <\/strong>the previous “No Limits<\/strong>” world record <\/strong>in freediving <\/strong>by almost 40 meters <\/strong>by diving to 209 meters<\/strong>. Following his request, this dive was done without the supervision of the International Association for Freediving agency<\/strong>, from which Musimu dissociated since 2002<\/strong>. According to him, extreme deep freediving <\/strong>should not be considered <\/strong>as a sport but as an adventure<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Patrick Musimu freediving<\/span><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Musimu began diving <\/strong>in 1999 <\/strong>at the age of 28<\/strong>, intrigued <\/strong>by what he called “dolphin<\/strong>–men<\/strong>“. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Patrick Musimu<\/span><\/strong> <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

His secret lay in years and years of training and preparation<\/strong>, but special attention <\/strong>should be given to his ear clearing technique<\/strong>: instead of equalizing his ears <\/strong>by the regular maneuvers, he flooded his air spaces (sinus and middle ears)<\/strong> with seawater before reaching the depth where ordinary equalization would become hard. He had a lung capacity of 9 litres<\/strong> and could hold his breath <\/strong>for more than 8 min 33 sec<\/strong>. In Stan Lee’s Superhumans, a show on the History Channel, Musimu claimed meditation and yoga to be the reason behind his apparent powers of holding breath<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On 21 July 2011<\/strong> Musimu died <\/strong>while pool training alone in Brussels<\/strong>, Belgium and was found by his wife and daughter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Patrick Musimu (12 October 1970 \u2013 21 July 2011) was a Belgian freediver, sport business manager, marketing and event manager, and physiotherapist. He was born in Kinshasa, Zaire. On 30 June 2005, he beat the previous “No Limits” world record in freediving by almost 40 meters by diving to 209 meters. Following his request, this… Continue reading Patrick Musimu<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":842,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions\/842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}