From Blue Seventy Sponsor Athlete News :
One of New Zealands top freedivers, has shown the NZ freediving community just what great technique and a great speedsuit can do! 
Kerian Hibbs, this last weekend, hit the apneists challenge held in Porirua with some uncertainty, after recently returning from the Bahamas for The Vertical Blue 209 depth comp, where he qualified for the Freediving Depth world champs.
Hibbs described his build up to the pool event as ‘ no where near the level I would like going into such an important event’.
The Competition was the second pool event Hibbs had entered since suffering a back injury last June and his only chance to put in qualifying swims for this years World Champs being held in Denmark in August.
Desipite the lack of conditioning, Hibbs added an incredible 49m on to his Dynamic no fins PB – swimming 160m, followed up by an strong 208m Dynamic with fin dive the following day.
‘The no fins dive was my first in competition in over 15 months, and while I had done some training for this discipline, I had absolutely no pre-conceived ideas that I would pull off such a dive. The dive itself was very comfortable, and I am still amazed at the gains I get when wearing the Nero, its efficiency through the water, requiring less effort to cover each metre in the pool’ said Hibbs.
The ‘no fins’ dive is 2nd in NZ only to World Record holder David Mullins, who covered 213m on a single breath of air last August, and sees him ranked 4th in the current world rankings.
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Hibbs Qualifies for Freediving World Champs.
New Zealand Freediver Kerian Hibbs has qualified for the Indoor world championships being held in Denmark later this year.
Hibbs, who has recently qualified for the Depth world champs being held in the Bahamas in November, has been named as one of the NZ athletes by AIDA NZ, the governing body of Freediving in New Zealand, to represent NZ.
Hibbs, wearing a BlueSeventy Comp Nero suit, pulled off one of the more remarkable performances at the apneists challenge held in Porirua last weekend, with a 160m ‘no fins’ dive, requiring the diver to swim underwater, with no propulsion aids, using a breaststroke style movement thought the water on a single breath of air. This dive sees him at the top of the current world rankings list, and 2nd in NZ behind World Record holder David Mullins.
He then went on to swim 208m in the ‘dynamic with fins’ discipline, which involves using a monofin to swim underwater on a single breath of air the following day.
For more information see :
http://www.blueseventy.com/news/story/blue_seventy_diver_makes_huge_gains_in_freediving_pool_events/
