Category: Freediving
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Konawaena Graduate, 18, Dies In Captain Cook Freediving Incident | Hawaii News Now
Joven Young was diving with a friend off Pebble Beach at the bottom of Kaohe Road when the friend lost sight of him, Hawaii police said.
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‘It Was Intense’: Divers Describe Shark Encounter Off Pensacola Coast | WKRG
‘It was intense’: Divers describe shark encounter off Pensacola coast
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Where the World is Quiet | Shearwater Research Inc.
There are few places quieter than beneath a frozen lake. Suspended under a sheet of ice, surrounded by muted light and the distant crackle of a living winter landscape, ice freedivers enter a world that is equal parts adventure, challenge, and meditation.
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Italian Freediver Dies While Surveying Spearfishing Championship Site | Dive Magazine
Italian freediver Francesco Pagni has died while surveying the seabed off Alghero, Sardinia, ahead of a qualifying event for Italy’s national spearfishing championship. The 47-year-old was acting as second to competitor Fabio Tonazzini in the Italian Spearfishing Qualification Championship, when he failed to return to the surface after descending to inspect the competition area. Read…
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Off Jeju Island, Older Women Vanish Beneath The Waves On One Breath, And Science Is Finally Measuring What Their Bodies Learned | ECOnews
In May 2025, a team led by University of Utah geneticist Melissa Ilardo compared 30 haenyeo to 30 non-diving women from Jeju and 31 women from mainland Korea. The participants averaged 65 years old. Researchers tried to “simulate dives” by asking the participants to hold their breath and place their face in cold water. The haenyeo’s heart…
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Making Waves With Waste: Freediver Turns Rubbish Into Underwater Art | The Manila Times
Six meters beneath the Mediterranean, Sofiane Benyahia is hard at work with a needle and thread. But instead of fabric, the Marseille-based artist and freediver is stitching together discarded drinks cans, torn fishing nets and plastic waste recovered from the seabed. Concerned that traditional clean-up campaigns were no longer enough, Benyahia began transforming underwater rubbish…
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Memorial Reef Offers Closure For Family Of Missing Freediver | WPTV
Memorial reef offers closure for family of missing freediver See WPTV
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Maui Has Highest Number of Snorkeling Deaths in Hawaii | Island News
Maui leads the way with the most snorkeling fatalities in the state.
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‘Old Ladies’ Are Free-Diving on Cape Cod. They’ve Excavated 6,000 Pounds of Trash | Upworthy
Imagine yourself on Cape Cod on a bright summer afternoon. The water looks perfect: glassy, blue, reflecting the clouds like it’s a computer screensaver. Suddenly, a dozen or so women burst onto the scene. Not one is a day under 65, and they’re zipping themselves into wetsuits and spitting into their masks (to prevent fogging)…