Saudi freediver Salma Shaker
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Growing up in the coastal city of Jeddah, Salma Shaker developed an early and enduring connection with the ocean. “I grew up in a family of ocean lovers and divers. I must have been a month or two when my parents introduced me to the Red Sea,” she says. What started as a hobby and some relaxing time with the fish soon blossomed into a passionate affair with freediving. “When I found freediving, everything changed. I had never known passion. But when I dived for the first time, I felt something and realised ‘is that what people feel when they say they are passionate?’ It was a really nice feeling.”
Salma Shaker is currently the deepest Arab woman in history, a prestigious title in the world of freediving.
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