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Marina Kazankova is a Russian movie star and ‘champion free diver’ who also races sports cars.  We hope she will visit us in Australia one day?

An Italian TV station has filmed her underwater, some clips are on You Tube.

Her website says she is a ‘champion deep free diver’. There is no doubt she is a champ at holding breath.

Australian girls were ‘held back’ – none encouraged to try deep free diving in the 1970′s and eighties.  Why? It’s a question we can now ask ourselves.  There was no reason except the guys just didn’t think about it and there was no promotion for it to happen.

An  example of how promotion works is the Luc Besson movie The Big Blue which sparked greater interest in extreme breath holding underwater.

(Another fine film by the same  film maker is Atlantis.  Fabulous underwater scenes yet the film failed miserably in cinemas).