User:Alina orchid/Aharon Solomons

Aharon Solomons was born on the 27th September 1939 is a free-diver and national record holder.

The son of Ernest Aldrich Simpson and Mary Huntemuller Kirk. . His father died in 1958 and his mother died in 1941. He spent the early years of his childhood in the UK ,India and with friends of his father in Pennsylvania in the US.

He returned to the UK in 1946, he went to Westbourne_House_School, Sussex, England, and then Harrow School and finally Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland. In 1957 he was inducted into his fathers regiment, the Coldstream Guards, he was commissioned as an officer in the Intelligence Corps and served in the Middle East.

In 1962 he moved to Israel and joined the Israeli Defense Forces, he saw action in 1967/68 and on the Golan Heights in 1973. He married Joy Corisande Jackson in 1960. Their first son Uri was born in Israel in 1964 and the second son Nadav was born in Israel in 1965. He lived for 10 years on communal agricultural settlements and then in Rosh Pinna. From 1975 he traveled initially in the Sinai then Greece,Micronesia and Mexico where he settled for a time.

He taught scuba for many years in Eilat and in 1992 he met Francisco Ferreras “Pipin” and Umberto Pelizzari, in 1993 he trained with Pipin in Cuba in both - No-Limits and constant weight disciplines of freediving.

He visited India for 6 months where he studied Ashtanga Vinyasa with Pattabhi Jois in Mysore and Pranayama with BKS Iyengar and Venkatesh. Since then he has taught freediving with Maria-Teresa_Solomons(a.k.a. MT) in Israel, The Turks and Caicos, Greece and Mexico. He married MT in 1997 and in 1998 a son was born Ze’ev. They are currently separated but work and train together in the Freedivers. Aharon and Maria Teresa were in the Israeli freediving team in Ibiza in 2001 and Maria Teresa was in the UK team in Egypt in 2008. Both, Aharon and MT are A.I.D.A Master instructors and currently trains and teach in La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico.