Career
He started his training in Apnea and Free-diving in 1996, and got his first national record in 1998. He broke the AIDA (International Association for the Development of Apnea) world record for Variable Weight Free-diving, with a 140-meter immersion in the Red Sea, Egypt, on May 9, 2006. This record was superseded by Herbert Nitsch, the current record holder, on 7 December 2009 at Dean"s Blue Hole in the Bahamas.
Additionally, Coste has broken several free-diving world records, including Constant Weight (-90 meter, October 2002.
-102 meter, June 2004. -105 meter, 2005; now held by Alexey Molchanov with -125 meter), Variable Weight (-135 meter, October 2004), and Free Immersion (-93 meter, October 2002.
-101 meter, October 2003. Now held by William Trubridge with -121 meter).
He is the current AIDA Individual World Champion Constant Weight (September 2005).
He studied Mechanical Engineering in the Central University of Venezuela. He suffered an injury on September 12, 2006 in attempt to break world record in Number Limits (held by Herbert Nitsch with -214 m) in Greece.