126 m
CWTB WORLD RECORD
10
WORLD RECORDS
2
WORLD TITLES
21
AGE AT 100 M
01 — THE MAN
“It was through freediving that I started to breathe.”
Arnaud Jerald is one of the deepest freedivers in history. A ten-time world record holder in Constant Weight Bi-Fins (CWTB), he reached 126 metres on a single breath at Vertical Blue 2025, in Dean's Blue Hole, Bahamas: the deepest dive ever achieved in the discipline.
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Born and raised in Marseille, he began diving as a child with his father in the Calanques. Dyslexic, he found school a struggle, but underwater he found calm and freedom: a place where he felt safe, a place he could call home. He started competing in 2017 and reached 100 metres at 21, the youngest freediver in history to do so. As he likes to say, more people have been to space than have dived to 100 metres on one breath.
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Since his first world record in 2019 (108 m), he has pushed the CWTB limit ten times. He is a two-time world champion (CWTB 2021, CWT 2022), a four-time French champion and holds 14 French national records. Out of the water, he is a Richard Mille ambassador, one of the very few freedivers associated with a fine watchmaking house. He still lives in Marseille.
Depth −126 m
02 — THE DIVE
DISCIPLINE · Constant Weight Bi-Fins (CWTB)
LOCATION · Dean's Blue Hole, Long Island, Bahamas
COMPETITION · Vertical Blue 2025
DATE · July 6, 2025
BREATH-HOLD · 3 min 45 s
AGE · 29
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WORLD RECORD PROGRESSION
108 m (2019) · 112 m (2020) · 116 m, 117 m (2021) · 117 m, 119 m, 120 m (2022) · 122 m (2023) · 125 m, 126 m (2025)
Vertical Blue 2022 · −120 m
August 9, 2022 — the first 120 m dive ever in bi-fins, in 3 min 34 s. Relive one of his ten world records.
Richard Mille
03 — WATCHMAKING PARTNER
One of the very few freedivers in the world associated with a haute horlogerie house. The same obsession with precision, lightness and resistance to extreme conditions.
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