Well, this guy just doesn’t sleep does he? David Mullins, super kiwi, has beaten yet another world record. However, even he has conceded that a third record today may just be pushing the envelope a bit too far.

Mr. Mullins swam 218 meters beneath the waves, without the assistance of fins, at the Porirua Aquatic Center yesterday to break the shared record of 213 meters he had with Tom Sietas of Germany.

He was a tad short of his personal best of 232 meters, which happens to be a record in New Zealand, but it has yet to be officially recognized by the international judges of such things.

The stress of his swim of 265 meters, performed with fins, left Mullins a bit short on energy, but it did nothing for his determination to keep blowing records out of the water left right and center.

“I was pretty shattered [on Sunday] and I was coming right [yesterday] but I still wasn’t 100 per cent,” he said. “You only really know that halfway into the swim. I wasn’t feeling fantastic, but good enough.” Mullins commented.

He could literally feel his muscles giving in to fatigue earlier than usual, and he also felt light-headed early on, and this told him things just weren’t quite kosher. He didn’t want the record to be quashed by passing out while swimming, so he surfaced instead.

So he didn’t do the full 232 meters, 218 is still good enough in our book. One has to ask, what will Mullins do next?

David Mullins, freediving enthusiast from New Zealand, has just broken yet another world record.

He has managed to break the “dynamic apnea, without fins” record after diving to a depth of 218 meters beneath the waves, all without taking a single breath in Porirua at the Porirua Aquatic Center.

This isn’t the only record which Mr. Mullins has broken. In conjunction with Tom Sietas, who hails from Germany, they held the previous best mark at 213 meters beneath the tranquil waters. It is interesting to note that the unofficial personal best, which he has accomplished by yet to be acknowledged, and the New Zealand record is 232 meters beneath the waves.

This past Saturday, the New Zealander really stuck it to Frenchman Fred Sessa, after breaking his record for the “dynamic apnea, with fins” category, swimming a cool 265 meters under the water without taking air at the Naene Olympic Pool.

He decided that he would put the shorter 25 meter long pool in Poriura, utilizing the extra turns to push off more and harder, without fins.

“I didn’t swim to my potential, I was a bit tired today after Saturday’s effort but I’m glad to have achieved what we set out to do,” a proud Mullins told NZPA.

“I probably could have pushed it a bit more today but if I had tried to kick on and things had gone bad, I could have been disqualified and I would have kicked myself. I’m happy to have just broken the record.”

And by all counts we think he will someday break all records, way to go David!

If you’re an environmentally conscious golf enthusiast you probably cringe at the shear notion of playing golf near the shoreline or practise your swing onboard a yacht or cruise ship where the risk of your balls ending up in the ocean is high.

To remedy the problem with awol golf balls polluting our oceans, Barcelona based golf ball manufacturer Albus Golf has created a 100% biodegradable and non-toxic golf ball filled with fish food. According to the company, the outer part of the ball will biodegrade within 48 hours after ending up in the water, giving the oceanic fauna free access to the tasty fish food inside.

Around the globe, more and more costal regions outlaw the use of ordinary golf balls near the shore since they have a tendency to end up in the ocean where their durable plastic materials live on “forever”. Our ever increasing production of plastic and other materials that are difficult to break down have caused the formation of five enormous trash vortexes in the ocean; areas to where sea currents bring the floating debris we throw into our oceans and waterways each day. The largest of them, the Great Pacific Trash Vortex, currently covers an area twice the size of the continental U.S.

A lot of fish have died following poor event planning before the Cairns triathlon. The organiser strung jellyfish nets across the Marlin Marina in cairns as a part of the event planning for the triathlon Authorities decided to leave the nets in during the night but forgot about the tide. Large schools of fish were caught in the net and when the tide rolled out the fish ended up above water and died. The nets were placed to prevent swimmers from being stung by jellyfish.

Event organisers and the Department of Fisheries and Primary Industries last night defended the event planning and use of the nets and said it was an “unusual” accident. The net was approved by DPIF and marine parks is of the same type the use around beaches to protect beach goers against jellyfish. DPIF is going to investigate the accident.

Officials also defended not taking down the nets immediately after the fish kill was discovered.

One of the involved believes the fish were chased into the net by a predator.

Paul Johnston, a local boat owner was shocked by the scene. He seem to have less faith in the event planners and says that “There will be another low tide and it’s all going to happen again”

Video from the accident