Hungarian freediver Zsófia Törőcsik reclaimed the women's world record in Free Immersion (FIM) on 6 August, reaching 107 metres on a single breath at the AIDA Lastovo Super Deep Week competition on the Croatian island of Lastovo. It was the third time the FIM depth record had changed hands in 2026, and it returned the mark to Törőcsik four months after she first set it. AIDA International, the sport's governing body, ratified the dive once she completed the mandatory surface protocol.
The dive took place in the sheltered waters of Zaklopatica Bay, where an annual training camp run by Adriatic Freediving and Lastovo Holidays draws competitors and coaches to the island each summer.
A record that moved three times in four months
In April, Törőcsik, 37, opened the year's contest with a 105-metre dive at the AIDA Mabini Depth Quest in the Philippines, breaking the 103-metre mark Croatian diver Sanda Delija had held since May 2025. Ukraine's Nataliia Zharkova pushed the record to 106 metres the following month, a depth the United States' Enchante Gallardo matched in July without going deeper.
At 107 metres, Törőcsik's 6 August dive settled the contest — for now — deeper than any woman has descended without fins in the sport's recorded history.
What Free Immersion demands
FIM divers descend and ascend a fixed vertical rope without fins, relying on arm strength and equalisation technique rather than propulsion. It is one of three depth disciplines recognised by AIDA International, alongside Constant Weight (CWT), which permits fins, and Constant Weight Without Fins (CNF), widely regarded as the sport's most physically demanding category.
In a newsletter issued by her media team after the dive, Törőcsik described conditions in the Adriatic: "One of the particular challenges of the Adriatic is that the water becomes dark and cold at depth," she said. "When I reached 107 metres and retrieved the depth marker confirming the dive, I already felt that I would have no problems with strength." She added that from that point she focused on staying calm and completing the surface protocol correctly.
Törőcsik already held two horizontal-distance world records — 280 metres in Dynamic Apnea with a monofin and 259 metres in Dynamic with Bifins, both set the previous year — and became the first woman to cover 300 metres in Dynamic Apnea at the World Games in China.
AIDA International has ratified 330 world records since the federation's founding in 1992, according to its own published tally. Its next scheduled depth event, the AIDA World Championships, is due to run in Limassol, Cyprus, from 27 September to 10 October.