{"id":709,"date":"2021-11-07T11:09:08","date_gmt":"2021-11-07T11:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/?p=709"},"modified":"2021-11-09T15:07:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T15:07:32","slug":"audrey-mestre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/?p=709","title":{"rendered":"Audrey Mestre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Audrey Mestre<\/strong> (11 August 1974 &#8211; 12 October 2002) was a <strong>French world record-setting freediver.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-asset.jpeg\" alt=\"Audrey Mestre\" class=\"wp-image-313\" width=\"308\" height=\"428\"\/><figcaption><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-white-color\"> Audrey Mestre <\/span><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Mestre <\/strong>was born in <strong>Saint<\/strong>&#8211;<strong>Denis<\/strong>, to a family of <strong>snorkeling <\/strong>and <strong>scuba diving enthusiasts<\/strong>. She began <strong>swimming <\/strong>when she was still a baby and won a gold medal in a<strong> 25-meter swimming competition <\/strong>at only <strong>age two<\/strong>. She became a <strong>seasoned scuba diver <\/strong>by age <strong>thirteen <\/strong>but did not get full certification until her <strong>sixteenth birthday <\/strong>due to French law. She was still in her <strong>teens <\/strong>when her family moved to <strong>Mexico City <\/strong>and, fluent in the <strong>Spanish language<\/strong>, she eventually studied <strong>marine biology <\/strong>at a university in <strong>La Paz<\/strong>, <strong>Mexico<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/images333.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-824\" width=\"316\" height=\"492\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In <strong>1996 <\/strong>her <strong>interest <\/strong>in <strong>underwater sports <\/strong>led to her <strong>meeting <\/strong>free-diver <strong>Francisco <\/strong>&#8220;<strong>Pip\u00edn<\/strong>&#8221; <strong>Ferreras<\/strong>. They immediately developed a <strong>relationship <\/strong>and Mestre soon <strong>moved <\/strong>to <strong>Miami<\/strong>, <strong>Florida <\/strong>to live with <strong>Ferreras<\/strong>. In <strong>1999 <\/strong>the <strong>two married <\/strong>and the following year, off the coast of <strong>Fort Lauderdale<\/strong>, <strong>Audrey Mestre broke <\/strong>the female world record by free diving to a depth of <strong>125 meters <\/strong>(410 ft) on a <strong>single breath of air<\/strong>. A <strong>year later <\/strong>she broke her own record, by descending to 130 meters (427 ft).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/images.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-825\" width=\"398\" height=\"290\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In <strong>October 2002<\/strong>, <strong>Mestre died <\/strong>in an <strong>early attempt <\/strong>to break the <strong>160 meters <\/strong>no-limits free-diving world record that <strong>Tanya Streeter <\/strong>had established a few weeks before on <strong>August 17, 2002 <\/strong>(at that time this was both men and women&#8217;s official AIDA record).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Audrey Mestre (11 August 1974 &#8211; 12 October 2002) was a French world record-setting freediver. Mestre was born in Saint&#8211;Denis, to a family of snorkeling and scuba diving enthusiasts. She began swimming when she was still a baby and won a gold medal in a 25-meter swimming competition at only age two. She became a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/?p=709\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Audrey Mestre<\/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-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","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=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":826,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions\/826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}