Enzo Maiorca is an Italian

Italy

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 multiple record holder in the extreme sport

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 of free-diving

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A native of Syracuse, Italy

Syracuse, Italy

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, he was a pioneer developer of free-diving in the 1960s and 1970s. Maiorca held 13 world records in the "No Limits" class of free diving between 1960 and 1974.

Maiorca was fictionalized in the 1988 Luc Besson

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 film The Big Blue

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as well as his rivalry with the French diver Jacques Mayol

Jacques Mayol

Jacques Mayol was the holder of many world records in free diving.Jacques Mayol was a French national born in Shanghai, China. He was the first free diver to descend to 100 meters , and he managed to descend to 105 meters when he was 56 years old...

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