Loïc Leferme
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Loïc Leferme (28 August 1970 – 11 April 2007) was a French diver who was the world free diving record holder until 2 October 2005, when he was surpassed by Herbert Nitsch.<ref name="record">History of World Records</ref> Loic was also a founder of AIDA in 1990 with Roland Specker and Claude Chapuis in Nice. In 2002 he set the world free diving record without any breathing apparatus at Template:Convert.<ref name="record" /><ref name=RRR8947>Template:Cite journal</ref> His first world record was Template:Convert, set in 1999.<ref name="record" /><ref>Template:In lang Voici l’homme le plus profond au monde</ref> On 30 October 2004, he extended his own world record to Template:Convert in the no-limits free-diving category.<ref name="record" /><ref>Template:In lang Loïc Leferme bat le record du monde de plongée en apnée à 171 mètres de profondeurTemplate:Dead link</ref> The premier advocate of this type of freediving which has come to be known as Chapuis Style Freediving. Template:Citation needed
He died during a private training session in Villefranche-sur-Mer when his equipment failed and he did not reach the surface in time.Template:Citation needed He was in training for a planned record attempt in July 2007.
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