What is your best time in static apnea?

Question

WR is 9:08 by Tom Sietas-beat that

Answer 1

Official world records as of June 16, 2007 (AIDA)

Static Apnea

women: Natalia Molchanova (Russia), 8m00s

men: Tom Sietas (Germany), 9m08s

Dynamic Apnea

women: Natalia Molchanova (Russia), 200 metres

men: Stig Severinsen (Denmark), 225 metres

Dynamic Apnea, without fins

women: Natalia Molchanova (Russia), 149 metres

men: Stig Severinsen (Denmark), 186 metres

Constant Weight

women: Mandy-Rae Cruickshank (Canada), -88 metres

men: Herbert Nitsch (Austria), -111 metres

Constant Weight without fins

women: Natalia Molchanova (Russia), -55 metres

men: William Trubridge (New Zealand), -82 metres

Free Immersion

women: Natalia Molchanova (Russia), -80 metres

men: Martin Štěpánek (Czech Republic), -106 metres

Variable Weight

women: Tanya Streeter (Cayman Islands), -122 metres

men: Carlos Coste (Venezuela), -140 metres

No limits

women: Tanya Streeter (Cayman Islands), -160 metres

men: Herbert Nitsch (Austria), -214 metres

The link below also has times for all the contenders, but could not find one better than ... Tom Sietas (born January 12, 1977 in Hamburg, Germany) is a free diver who specialises in the “static apnea” event (holding his breath under water) and the “dynamic apnea” event (swimming the furthest possible distance underwater horizontally without breathing). Sietas started free diving at age 23 after taking a course in scuba diving. As of 2007, Sietas holds two free diving world records:

183 metres in dynamic without fins

9 minutes and 8 seconds in static apnea.