{"id":529,"date":"2019-09-17T09:55:38","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T09:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepaphospost.com\/?p=529"},"modified":"2019-09-01T10:56:14","modified_gmt":"2019-09-01T10:56:14","slug":"worlds-oldest-scuba-diver-96-will-attempt-to-break-own-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepaphospost.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/17\/worlds-oldest-scuba-diver-96-will-attempt-to-break-own-record\/","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s Oldest Scuba Diver, 96, Will Attempt To Break Own Record"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Staff Reporter.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ray Woolley, the world\u2019s oldest scuba diver, will attempt to break his own world record on August 31, aged 96 and three days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The dive will again take place at the famous Zenobia shipwreck off the Larnaca coast and he will be joined by dozens of local divers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve done this for the last two years, so I thought, why not do it a third time?\u201d he told the Paphos Post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ray celebrated his 96th birthday on August 28.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last September the British veteran of World War II broke his own Guinness world record as the oldest scuba diver after diving to Zenobia where he dived for 44 minutes at a depth of 40.6 metres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Woolley has an impressive international fan base and stars in a documentary, \u2018Life begins at 90,\u2019 about his life and his love of diving. The film which was produced and filmed in Cyprus has won a number of awards at International film festivals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If his upcoming dive is successful, his film will be updated and he said he intends to do this every year until he is 100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m amazed to cause so much interest and it\u2019s nice to set an example to show it is possible for anyone,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, other record breaking dives in the future might not be as deep, he said, as he is planning to limit diving down to 40 or so metres this year, as he feels he is at an age to be \u2018more sensible.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think I will limit myself to 30m next year which will make my family happy,\u201d he said. \u201cAfter all, I do have to be a bit more sensible at my age.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Staff Reporter. Ray Woolley, the world\u2019s oldest scuba diver, will attempt to break his own world record on August 31, aged 96 and three&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[16,25,296,76,154,224,9,15,208,176],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-diving","tag-living-in-cyprus","tag-local-legend","tag-local-news-in-paphos","tag-local-newspaper","tag-paphos-community","tag-paphos-post","tag-ray-woolley","tag-scuba-diving","tag-the-paphos-post","entry","double"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thepaphospost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Ray-diving-at-Latchi-last-week.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepaphospost.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepaphospost.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepaphospost.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepaphospost.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepaphospost.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepaphospost.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":530,"href":"https:\/\/thepaphospost.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions\/530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepaphospost.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepaphospost.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepaphospost.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepaphospost.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}