Biography
Natalia Molchanova is called the Queen Fridayving - the type of snorkeling, in which the athlete relies only on the lungs. In 10 years, the Russian woman has installed more than 40 world records. She could not breathe under water for more than 9 minutes, descended to a depth of 100 meters, became the first woman overcoming the blue hole in Egypt on one breath. Natalia Molchanova adored the depth and water. Element answered reciprocity and therefore once did not return the diver to the surface.Childhood and youth
Natalia Vadimovna Molchanova was born on May 8, 1962 in Ufa, the USSR. Brought up with the older sister Rina.
Sport early entered the life of the Queen Fridayving. Until 3rd grade, she was engaged in figure skating, and then switched to swimming. After school, firmly deciding to devote himself to an active way of life, Natalia Molchanova entered the Volgograd State Academy of Physical Culture. Here she was first interested in depth.
By 20 years, the Russian woman became a master of sports on underwater sports. From training in training, she became more powerful, crossed opponents at competitions, but, having met the future husband, left the sport. This decision turned out to be a complete surprise for parents and coaches Natalia Molchanova, but she thought she was doing correctly.
Personal life
Male Natalia Molchanova, Oleg, also an athlete. Young people met in swimming competitions when the Frediving Queen studied at the 5th year. In his youth, she seemed right to make a choice in favor of the family, so she left the sport when the spouse wanted children.In 1985, Oksana girl was born, in 1987 - Alexey boy. Maternity, like in stormy waters, Natalia Molchanova plunged from his head - arranged children to the best school, drove to various circles and sections, every summer rode with them on the sea. Oleg, from such a desired offspring, was held aside, and in the 1990s he woken up "business".
Personal life was smoldered, and Natalia Molchanova was not particularly surprised by learning about the mistress of the spouse. In 1998, their marriage was terminated.
Fridayving
Everything that Natalia Molchanova remained after the care of a spouse is children and a salary of a swimming coach, equal to the subsistence minimum. She barely reduced the ends with the ends, but the help from relatives rejected categorically.
To feed Oksana and Alexey, the woman settled on the second job. Eternal stress, lack of sleep, neurosis brought Natalia Molchanov to 3-year depression. It is not known how life would have happened, she would not be stumbled upon in the magazine to material about Fridayving.
Natalia Molchanova remembered what it is like to feel freedom on the waves, to succumb to the flow, stroke under the thickness of water and looks at the surface. For the first time after the divorce, she, 39-year-old, felt happy.
By the time Alexey, having gone to the mother's love for swimming (now he is an experienced freediver, multiple recordsman), entered the School of the Olympic reserve in St. Petersburg, and Oksana accepted into the Moscow university. Free time Natalia Molchanova decided to spend with benefit. She launched the phone of Yulia Petrik, one of the first freedives in Russia, and went to her for 10 day courses in Egypt.
By the end of the course, Natalia Molchanova could dive to a depth of 40 meters - this is more than a 10-storey building. Yulia Petrik struck such a result, so she recommended a student seriously think about fridising. Russian woman without hesitation moved to Moscow to start a new life.
Natalia Molchanova's records began to bet from the first speeches on professional sites. In 2003, on the open Cup of Moscow on scuba diving, it became the best in Russia for breathing delay (5 minutes 39 seconds) and the duration of the distance on one breath (142 meters). The last indicator of the Frediving Queen has improved in a month - he floated 150 meters, repeating the world record.
It is noteworthy that Natalia Molchanova's breath and immersion technique studied itself: Foreign FRIDERVER experts denied the Russian woman in help, scared its potential. We had to train yourself by looking at the behavior of rivals to the competition.
So, Natalia Molchanova once noticed that before dipping all the athletes as if they were going to whom: their brain turns off, and the breath becomes deep, as in a dream. Then the Russian woman began to practice pranayama.
Natalia Molchanova was outlined its complex of training, and when it turned out that all methods were effective, began to record training clips for beginner freedivers. Fat truths of scuba diving Russian woman also led in numerous interviews. One of the main rules, she said, "Relax, move slowly, with water you need to interact, and not conquer the element."
For 13 years in sports, Natalia Molchanova delivered 41 world record and was 2 times the world champion. These achievements were recognized in all countries where popular snorkeling. No one dare to encroacitate the rank of Fridayving Queen. Such a piggy bank of the awards has no woman in the world.
One of the most afflicting achievements of Natalia Molchanova is the conquest of a blue hole that in Egypt. This vertical arch is also called the cemetery of divers - on the way there are hundreds of tables with the names of the dead bravery.
Natalia Molchanova and her son Alexey became the first Russians who did not remain on the cemetery of divers. All because the family was preparing for the immersion: they dived several times in the arch, got used to the atmosphere. On the day of "X", there was a safety and scuba challenge with them, and freedivers were found at the exit of a blue hole.
The conquest of the cemetery of divers has taken from Natalia and Alexey Molchanov about three minutes. They dropped to a depth of 70 meters, saw dark gray reefs shrouded in blue light, for which the locality and got their name, and all this on the only breath.
In photographs made after emerging from a blue hole, Natalia Molchanova looks incredibly happy. Whenever she rose from depth, her face illuminated a bright smile.
Death
On August 2, 2015, an athlete in the company of three like-minded people dived near Ibiza, in Spain. These were not competitions and not even training, freedives were entertained, enjoyed the sea and depth.While friends were restored, Natalia Molchanova decided to plunge again. The diver's breadwinner is 60 meters from the alleged place of ascembly - here is the last thing that the accompanying accompanying sees. Then the woman again absorbed the element, this time forever.
The death of Natalia Molchanova, her son Alexey calls a tragic coincidence. He says, if he were nearby, it would be no victims: "completely inexperienced freedivers" went to Spain with a diverman.
The cause of the death of Natalia Molchanova, most likely, were hypoxia and the subsequent loss of consciousness. 10 meters prior to the intake of divers are tested by a colossal pressure drop, and the oxygen content in the brain is at a minimum. Even experienced freedives can "fall" fainting. Therefore, they insure them on the lift. Natalia Molchanova no one insured.
In addition, the water area in which the tragedy occurred is famous for stormy superficial and underwater flows. Therefore, it is impossible to exclude the fact that Natalia Molchanova acted as a true professional, but failed to overcome flows.
The family could not bury the Queen Fridayving: she was never found dead. The search for the body was conducted 2 days. On August 4, 2015, Natalia Molchanova recognized the dead.
Achievements
- 2004, 2005 (3), 2006 (2) - Champion of Russia in various freediving disciplines
- 2005 (4), 2006, 2007 (3), 2008, 2009 (5), 2010, 2011 (2), 2013 (6) - world champion in various freediving disciplines
- 2005 - World record in the discipline "Permanent Weight" with an indicator of 101 meters
- 2012 - world records in the discipline "Variable Weight" with an indicator of 127 meters, respectively
- 2013 - world records in the disciplines "Static apnea" and "Dynamics without LAST" with indicators 9 minutes 2 seconds and 182 meters, respectively
- 2014 - world records in the disciplines "Permanent Weight without Last" and "Dynamics in Waste" with indicators of 70 meters and 237 meters, respectively