Estrella Navarro

Estrella Navarro-Holm (born 28 November 1988) is a marine biologist, model, and national record-holding free diver from Mexico. She is the first Latin American woman to win a free diving medal for holding a single breath for more than six minutes.

Early life and education Navarro is from La Paz in Baja California Sur, Mexico. Her father, a swim-coach, taught her to swim at an early age. Navarro began modeling when she was 15 years old and placed sixth in Nuestra Belleza México in 2008. The event takes place in the waters off of Isla Espíritu Santo, Baja, Mexico.

Records Navarro has won two international freediving medals.

In 2017, Navarro dove to a depth of 75 meters in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt in the Free Immersion (FIM) and Constant Weight Fins (CWT) categories. The record dive was validated by AIDA International at the Freediving World Apnea Center. She made the dive with a single large fin called a monofin.

In 2019, Navarro broke another record for Mexico, diving 60 meters with bi-fins as part of the México en Buceo Libre competition in waters off of Bacalar, Quintaana Roo.

Publications Cisneros-Montemayor, A., Barnes-Mauthe, M., Al-Abdulrazzak, D., Navarro-Holm, E., & Sumaila, U. (2013). Global economic value of shark ecotourism: Implications for conservation. Oryx, 47(3), 381–388. doi: 10.1017/S0030605312001718