Maldives Promotion House – This January, Six Senses Laamu is planning on entertaining its guests by bringing in the World Champion Free Diver Umberto Pelizzari. The world famous Umberto will be staying at Six Senses Laamu during the final week of January 2012.

On January 24^th Laamu will introduce the Free Diver at the General Manager’s Cocktail Party and on January 25^th, 27^th and 28^th guests will have the opportunity to dive with him. On 26^th, 27^th and 28^th he will host clinics and in-water activities. On 26^th and 28^th a “Dive Talk” will be held at Laamu’s Fine-Dining Restaurant, LEAF.

The Italian freediver is widely considered among the best of all times. Of his era, he is the sole to have established world records in all the then existing disciplines of freediving. Pelizzari is currently professor at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna di Pisa and a TV host. He has also formed the freediving training agency Apnea Academy which sees much respect in freediving circuits, and he also co-authored the widely used Manual of Freediving with his former trainer Stefano Tovaglieri.