Claudia Serpieri
Encyclopedia
Claudia Serpieri is a world record
-holding Italian
technical diver
& instructor. She is co-director of team BioHazard, which has partnerships with space agencies, hyperbaric researchers, universities and the Navy. She is a PADI
Staff Instructor, PTA Instructor Trainer, and lives and works in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt
.
She also holds the Italian women’s record for deepest dive in a sinkhole
(103 m (338 ft)) and in a cave
(86 m (282 ft)), and leads the exploration team at the sinkhole Merro in Italy
(199 m (653 ft)).
World record
A world record is usually the best global performance ever recorded and verified in a specific skill or sport. The book Guinness World Records collates and publishes notable records of all types, from first and best to worst human achievements, to extremes in the natural world and beyond...
-holding Italian
Italian people
The Italian people are an ethnic group that share a common Italian culture, ancestry and speak the Italian language as a mother tongue. Within Italy, Italians are defined by citizenship, regardless of ancestry or country of residence , and are distinguished from people...
technical diver
Technical diving
Technical diving is a form of scuba diving that exceeds the scope of recreational diving...
& instructor. She is co-director of team BioHazard, which has partnerships with space agencies, hyperbaric researchers, universities and the Navy. She is a PADI
Padi
Padi or PADI may refer to:* Padi, Chennai, India* Padi , a musical group* Paddy field, a type of cultivated land * Professional Association of Diving Instructors, a scuba organization...
Staff Instructor, PTA Instructor Trainer, and lives and works in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt
Egypt
Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
.
World records
She holds a number of world records:- women's deepest diveDeep divingThe meaning of the term deep diving is a form of technical diving. It is defined by the level of the diver's diver training, diving equipment, breathing gas, and surface support:...
on open circuit (211 m (692 ft)), - women's deepest altitude dive in cold water (180 m (591 ft)),
- women's deepest wreck dive (129 m (423 ft)).
She also holds the Italian women’s record for deepest dive in a sinkhole
Sinkhole
A sinkhole, also known as a sink, shake hole, swallow hole, swallet, doline or cenote, is a natural depression or hole in the Earth's surface caused by karst processes — the chemical dissolution of carbonate rocks or suffosion processes for example in sandstone...
(103 m (338 ft)) and in a cave
Cave diving
Cave diving is a type of technical diving in which specialized equipment is used to enable the exploration of caves which are at least partially filled with water. In the United Kingdom it is an extension of the more common sport of caving, and in the United States an extension of the more common...
(86 m (282 ft)), and leads the exploration team at the sinkhole Merro in Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
(199 m (653 ft)).