ANDREA ZUCCARI
Born in Rome on 10/26/74 by Italian father and Suisse mother.
At the age
of 29, will travel to Sharm El Sheikh where he will born his new passion… Freediving!
After a few
sessions is clearly a natural predisposition for this sport. So Zuccari decides
to contact Riccardo Mura, Apnea Academy instructor how was living in Sharm El
Sheikh, to start his first course of apnea.
Between
2006 and 2008 establishes five Swiss National Record in the disciplines of CWT,
CNF and FI.
In 2008, Andrea
will become Apnea Academy International Instructor, the school founded by
Umberto Pellizzari.
Between
2009 and 2011, he will set 5 new Suisse national Records. The deepest will be
-131 mt in No Limits.
In 2011,
together with the German freediver Anna von Boetticher, will establish the No-Limits
Tandem World Record diving to -125 meters. Beats so the one who introduced him
to the Mouthfill tecnique, Patrick Musimu.
Spring 2012
he will creates an innovative didactic support, no longer a book but a DVD,
where he presented a series of exercises dry to develop the awareness of the
organs involved in the compensation. This DVD now has been translated into five
languages (Italian, English, French, German, Russian)
In the
autumn of 2012 Andrea opens his central apnea "Freediving World Apnea
Center" inside the Sharm Club in Sharm El Sheikh - Egypt
January
2013 during the training for the next record attempt, with the Greek Stavros
Kastrinakis set the new Male No-Limits Tandem World diving to -126 meters
beating the great Francisco Ferreras and Benjamin Franz (122mt.)
Immediately
few days later on the afternoon of January 24, 2013 diving to -155 m sets the
new Italian record No Limits.
During the
training for the next record he dives to -101 mt in CWT his new Personal Best
and unofficial Italian Record.
A few
months later establishes the new Italian Record in Variable Weight Regulated
down to - 135 mt.
July 2014 his
deepest result -175 meters in No Limits, with this deep he becomes the deepest man in the world using a
Freediving Mask and second deepest man in the world behind the Austrian Herbert
Nitsch
To date
Andrea continues his career as an athlete and coach and is involved in physiological
Freediving research to discover the human limits
