Peppo Biscarini Biography

Early life

Swimming and freediving

• Starts his swimming career at the age of 6 and participates at his first age group Nationals at the age of 11.
• In May 1976 at the age of 15 wins the World Championship in finswimming marathon (24 hours) setting a new World Record of KM 83,7 and shuttering the previous record of 70.3 KM
• July 77 wins the Italian National title of Open water swimming (11,500 mt -Bacoli, NA) 2:14.10
• May 78 wins again the World Championship in finswimming KM 77,8.
• 1978 Italian National champion in Open water swimming and representative for Italy to the FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships Capri-Napoli (1979)
• 1978 Member of the Italian National finswimming team at the European finswimming championship.
• 1986-1989 5 National US titles in finswimming (100 and 200 mt and yds)
• 1989 All-America Swimmer with 2 gold's (100 e 200 mt) and 1 silver (50mt) at the World Corporate Games in San Francisco.
• He is responsible for bringing the sport of finswimming -the monofin and front mounted snorkles-, until then unknown, to North America.
• Founder of Hyperfin, a high tech fin manufacturing Co., works as a technical consultant with swimming programs at universities like Stanford, UC Berkley, Texas A&M, University of Southern California.
• Technical consultant to Lockheed Martin under water division to develop a human powered submarine
• 1992-1996 Trains the US Navy Seals CISM team(International Military Sports Council) for their World Games(gold medalists in '96)
• Representative and best US athlete at the freediving World Cup in 1998 (Sardinia-Italy) with National records of constant weight (51 mt), dynamic swim (125 mt) and static breath hold (5 min.39 sec).
• Speaker at the World Clinic for swimming coaches -Chicago 1995. (integrated techniques of finswimming for the benefit of high level swimming, CO2 tolerance training and swimming with front snorkels).
• "blue water hunter" writes often for Pesca Sub, an Italian specialty magazine.
• World record 21° century for white sea bass 27.8 kg 1997.
• Former and current sponsors: Tarzasub, Technisub, Dacor (scuba diving), Mat-Mas, TYR, Topsub, C4.

Television

• Modeling career starts in San Diego with and in Italy with.
• Between 1984 and 1989 appears in numerous national TV commercials like Honda, Ford, Coca Cola, Hilton, Sprint, Anheuser-Busch, Unocal 76, Wheel of Fortune; in the TV soaps Capitol (TV series) CBS in the movie Dolphin Whales and us and in Italy in the movie Italian Fast Food.

Evangelist

• After 15 years of successful business as an entrepreneur and hedge fund marketer with the 1st and largest Internet firm in this business, he was recruited by Campus Crusade for Christ.
• From 2000 to 2004 pursues theological studies while living and ministering to influencers in Palm Beach, Florida
• Returns to Italy with as the National director of GEM from 2004 to 2011
• Preaches in different churches and nonprofit organizations
• Writes a manual for basic Christianity: "Quale via, verità, vita?"
• In 2012 he establishes ViaVeritas Inc as an international tool for evangelization and an instrument for cross cultural student's exchanges