[Andreas Triantopoulos]

Rebreathers record claim
An international diving team claims to have set a new world depth record for diving on rebreathers.


The divers descended to the wreck of the Milano at a depth of 236m (241m if compensating for altitude) in Italy's Lake Maggiore.

The bottom divers - Alessandro Scuotto (Italy), Mario Marconi (Italy) and Pim van der Horst (Netherlands) - used Delta P Ouroboros closed-circuit rebreathers.

Some 60 people contributed to the team effort, including support divers using Inspiration and Megalodon rebreathers.

For the bottom divers, total dive time was about 8 hours, with 4.5 hours in a bell that marked the final decompression element from a depth of 21m upward - all for about four minutes on the wreck. They were tracked by an ROV, which filmed both them and the wreck.

The dive was observed for a Guinness world records listing.