Category: Freediving
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The Real Health Podcast: Breathe for life with freediving champion Claire Walsh
Competitive freediving champion Claire Walsh joins me on this week’s Real Health to talk about breathing techniques and how they can improve your wellness and even enhance performance. Claire can hold her breath under water for 5m59 seconds, diving to a depth of 60m – the equivalent of the height of Dublin’s Liberty Hall –…
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Participate in an international clean-up today, 8 June, 2020
Green Sail is calling for a global movement to help protect our seas and oceans in just 5 minutes. On 8 June, take a break by collecting 5 pieces of waste, post a photo of your clean up using the hashtag #GreenSailTakes5 and become part of a virtually engaging clean-up challenge, no matter where you…
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Dive Reflex
“They say underwater is the last quiet place on earth… but quiet places speak loudly when you slowdown enough to listen…” About a year ago, Chelsea took me free diving for the first time. I became hooked. Since then, it’s become a bigger part of my life than I had ever imagined. Here’s a little…
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Diving Batanes THE CLEAREST Visibility in Philippines
Exploring the underwater world of Batanes. Incredibly clear waters, full of marine life and corals. By far the clearest waters I’ve scuba dived in the Philippines.
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My First Freediving Experience // Bonaire, Dutch Caribbean
I’m excited to share with you my (beginner) Freedive training with Freediving World Record Holder Carlos Coste in Bonaire!
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Free Diver Hand-Feeds Tiger Shark Near Grand Bahama Island
Underwater photographer and videographer Szilard Janko was along for the journey with Weston and managed to capture a moment on video that he would not soon forget. The footage shows Weston floating above the ocean floor and reaching into a metal container and removing a piece of fish, as a tiger shark swims toward him.…
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SofÃa rocks the Cenotes
Cenotes are a unique and delicate eco-system and deserve a respectful touch. We shot this video on breath hold with minimal equipment in several cenotes over several days and for each different one, we asked permission of the owner and whether we could touch the environment or not. In some cases, it was clear it…
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Video: “Free Surfing†Tahiti With Arnaud Jerald
Ordinarily, “free surfing” refers to any surfing that doesn’t take place during in a competition. However, it also refers to an emergent sport which combines bodysurfing and freediving, at least according to Arnaud Jerald. The 23-year-old is a world record-holding freediver, and perhaps the creator of a new sport. See Teton Gravity
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Finding our Freedom Under a Frozen Lake
Some of us look at a frozen lake and see an inky blackness that should be avoided at all costs. But there are others who look at that layer of ice and see an opportunity to explore an obscure world, both in the lake and within themselves. After cutting a hole into the surface, these freedivers lower themselves into…