Simone Arrigoni
Simone Arrigoni is an Italian free-diver. He holds multiple free-diving world records. He is an ActionAid Ambassador and Honorary Member of the Centro Studi Cetacei, a non-profit Italian association that is concerned with the study and rescue of marine mammals and reptiles since 1986.
Free-diving
Since 2008, Arrigoni has collaborated with biologists and students at Zoomarine Italia to carry on research projects on the study of free-diving and the comparative physiology of humans and dolphins.New disciplines
He opened two new specialties of dynamic apnea:- Horizontal Free Immersion, devised by Arrigoni in 2009 to allow disabled persons to play this aquatic sport, in which the freediver covers a horizontal distance pulling on a rope;
- Dolphin's Breath, which consists of freediving with monofin along a horizontal distance of predetermined length, periodically resurfacing to take a single breath of 1 second, and aiming at taking as few breaths as possible during the declared distance. The Dolphin's Breath was inaugurated by Arrigoni to disseminate two important slogans: "Mind the dolphins", to raise public awareness to protect marine mammals and their environment, and "Never alone", to remind people to never practice freediving alone for safety reasons, following the example given by dolphins which live and swim in a group, always helping each other in case of difficulty.
World records
Arrigoni set many world records:- Dynamic freedive without fins in sea, 60 mt, Porto Santo Stefano, Italy, November 9, 2003.
- Dynamic freedive without fins under ice, 30 mt, at the 19th Stage of Diving Under Ice A.N.I.S., Lavarone, Italy, January 31, 2004.
- Dynamic freedive without fins in sea, 83 mt, , Balestrate, Italy, June 17, 2004.
- Dynamic freedive without fins in lake, 70 mt, Bracciano, Italy, June 7, 2005.
- Dynamic freedive without fins under ice, 41 mt, at the 21st Stage of Diving Under Ice A.N.I.S, Lavarone, Italy, February 4, 2006.
- Dynamic freedive with DPV in sea, 231 mt, Giochi del Mare, Formia, Italy, June 25, 2007.
- Dynamic freedive with DPV in lake, 381 mt, Bracciano, Italy, June 2, 2008.
- Freedive pushed by two dolphins, distance of 9 Zoomarine's swimming pools length, Zoomarine, Torvaianica, Italy, May 17, 2009.
- Horizontal Free Immersion in sea, 101 mt, Giochi del Mare, Formia, Italy, June 17, 2009.
- Freedive pushed by two dolphins, 12 underwater loops, Zoomarine, Torvaianica, Italy, May 27, 2010.
- Freedive pushed by two dolphins, 13 underwater loops, Zoomarine, Torvaianica, Italy, May 19, 2011.
- Freedive pushed by two dolphins, 14 underwater loops, Zoomarine, Torvaianica, Italy, May 23, 2013.
- Dynamic freedive with DPV in sea, 500 mt, Tropea, Italy, September 30, 2013.
- Freedive pushed by two dolphins, 15 underwater loops, Zoomarine, Torvaianica, Italy, May 22, 2014.
- Freedive pushed by one dolphin, 7 underwater loops, Zoomarine, Torvaianica, Italy, May 28, 2015.
- Dolphin's Breath with monofin in sea, 1 km with 95 single breaths, Giochi del Mare, Santa Marinella, Italy, June 8, 2016.
- Dolphin's Breath with monofin in sea, 500 mt with 35 single breaths, Limnionas, Kythira, Greece, August 12, 2016.
- Dolphin's Breath with monofin in sea, 500 mt with 32 single breaths, Diakofti, Kythira, Greece, September 5, 2016.
- Dolphin's Breath with monofin in sea, 500 mt with 30 single breaths, Diakofti, Kythira, Greece, September 15, 2016.