Raimondo Bucher

Raimondo Bucher was born to an Italian father on March 15, 1912 in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

In 1932 he entered the italian Regia Aeronautica by enrolling in the Bergamo air piloting school, where in 1937 he became a flight and aerobatics instructor.

[3] In 1949 at Capri he descended in apnea to -29 meters in the presence of a commission and in 1950, accepting the challenge of the "Circolo Subacquei Napoletani" (Neapolitan Underwater Club), in the presence of the federal commissioners he descended to -30 meters: this was the first official freediving world record.

[7] In the same year he participates, together with his wife Enza in the "National Underwater Expedition in the Red Sea" from which the feature film "Sesto Continente", the first full-color underwater documentary, was made by Bruno Vailati and Folco Quilici[8] (1954).

In 1962, Raimondo Bucher began to train Luciana Civico (who later became his wife) in scuba diving and in the same year Luciana Civico obtained the compressed air diving record, reaching the depth of -80mt.