The United States Apnea Association (USAA) is pleased to announce that American freediving record holder Jessica Wilson and USAA Board Member Craig Gentry will appear on the National Geographic Channel Show, Humanly Impossible, airing Sunday December 6, 2009 at 8:00pm Pacific.
The show will feature Jessica holding her breath for over six minutes. Jessica is the current US Women’s Record holder in Static Apnea. The show will feature Jessica and Craig as her coach demonstrating her humanly impossible ability to hold her breath. Jessica is also accomplished in many other areas of freediving including diving to depth.
For more information about the show go to: http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/
Static apnea tests the athlete’s ability to hold their breath for time. The athlete lays face down in the shallow end of a pool with a coach providing for safety signaling and timing. Upon surfacing at the conclusion of their performance the athlete must perform a surface protocol by removing their facial equipment, signaling okay and saying, I am okay, to demonstrate he or she is in control of his or her performance. Other disciplines include tests in depth and distance.
The USAA is a nonprofit association founded on the democratic representation of freediving within the United States and internationally. Founded in 2003, the USAA consists of an active membership dedicated to furthering freediving in the United States and abroad. For more information about the USAA, the U.S. National Freediving Team, and membership please visit http://www.usfreediving.org.
The International Association for the Development of Freediving, AIDA, is the international sanctioning body for freediving, individual and team competition, and freediving world record attempts. For more information about AIDA please visit http://www.aida-
