Miguel Lozano

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Miguel Lozano
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Born1979 (age 4445)
Montgat, Spain
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Sport Diving

Miguel Lozano is a professional freediver and freediving entrepreneur from Barcelona, Spain. [1] [2] He won silver medals twice in two of the three depth disciplines (Constant No Fins and Free Immersion) in the AIDA World Depth Championships in Cyprus in 2015. [3] [4] Lozano was the first Spaniard to reach a depth of 100m in Constant Weight (CWT) and 83m in Constant No Fins (CNF). [5]

Biography

Miguel Lozano was born in 1979 in Montgat, Barcelona, in a small fishing village on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. [5] In 2011, Lozano made the 'magic' depth of 100m in constant weight. A year later, he descends to 117m while competing in Free Immersion in the Bahamas. [6]

In 2015, Lozano won silver medals twice in two of the three depth disciplines in the AIDA World Depth Championships in Cyprus. [3] In 2016, he performed a 122-meter (400 feet) free immersion dive (FIM) at the Caribbean Cup Competition in Roatán, Honduras. [4]

In 2022, Lozano attempted to break the world record for the deepest dive with the target depth of 125 meters, but he blacked out due to low oxygen pressure. [1]

Currently, Lozano runs four freediving schools in the world: Apnea Canarias in Tenerife [6] and Lanzarote, Dahab Freedivers in Egypt, and Freedive Air in Indonesia. [5]

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References

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