That’s something remarkable for his age!

Freediving or skin diving is a form of underwater diving that relies on divers’ ability to hold their breath until resurfacing rather than on the use of a breathing apparatus such as scuba gear. While it sounds easy to do, it takes years of experience for many swimmers to actually dive without any gear. But for this 3-year-old toddler, freediving is something he enjoys since he was just two years old!

Fedor Afonasiev’s parents are both professional freedivers, and he has been diving them eversince. Alexey Molchanov, a friend of the Russian family and a freediver himself, told Metro about the young boy.

He said: “His parents do not set any goals for him – he just goes down as far as he feels comfortable.

“For freediving, you don’t need to follow any decompression tables until you get quite deep.

“You just need to make sure that you have plenty of rest when you’re on the surface until you’ve recovered completely.”

But hey, Fedor Afonasiev still has a long way to go, as the world’s record for the deepest free dive is 122m underwater! New Zealander William Trubridge set his 16th world mark, beating his own record of 121 metres, plunging 122m into a blue hole in the Bahamas on one breath!

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