Şahika Ercümen

Renowned national diver Şahika Ercümen, who holds dozens of world and national records, has performed a free dive in the country's tourism hub Antalya to mark the 100th anniversary of the republic.

Setting out from Konyaaltı Beach by boat, Ercümen embarked on a free dive, resurfacing with a banner displaying the message "The Republic of Türkiye is 100 years old."

Turkish national freediver record holder Şahika Ercümen has made yet another record as she becomes the first athlete to dive 85 meters in the Ida Depth Challenge in the Asian continent.

Turkish athlete Şahika Ercümen broke the world record at variable weight freediving without using breathing on Oct. 26. 

Ercümen managed to complete 100-meter diving with the time of 2 minutes and 53 seconds in offshore Kaş, Turkey's southern province of Antalya.

Turkey's multiple world-record holder and free-diving champion Şahika Ercümen has joined the fight to preserve oceans, becoming a "life below water advocate" of the United Nations.

National sportswoman and world record-holding diver Şahika Ercümen on Oct. 28 broke the 90-meter women's cave diving (without fins) world record at the Gilindire Cave in Aydıncık, a town in southern Turkey's Mersin.