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Loic LeFerme dies during
training dive.
French diver Loic Leferme, former holder of
the world record for free diving, the sport celebrated in
the hit film "The Big Blue", has died in training,
rescue officials said on Wednesday.
Leferme, 36, was training off Villefranche-sur-Mer, near the
southern city of Nice when he could not get back to the surface,
the Nice nautical club said.
"He stayed at the bottom. His body was then brought up
by a rescue service diver but it wasn't possible to resuscitate
him," a club official said.
Leferme was one of the world's leading exponents of free diving,
in which divers descend deep into the sea unaided by any breathing
apparatus.
He held the world record for so-called "no limit"
diving, until Austria's Herbert Nitsch beat his record of
171 metres with a dive of 183 metres in August 2006.
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