Category: Freediving

  • How to Make a Living as a Freediver

    How to Make a Living as a Freediver

    How do freedivers make their living? Can you make money freediving? Do freedivers live on sponsorship? Do freedivers have real jobs? I’ve been asked these questions countless times so I thought i’d make a video on the topic. I just finished teaching a freediving instructor course in Bali and I’ve never felt so optimistic about…

  • Real-Life Mermaid in Mirror-Like Pool | Stella the Siren

    Real-Life Mermaid in Mirror-Like Pool | Stella the Siren

    Reflections everywhere… This ‘real’ mermaid swims in a pool with a mirror-like floor! It was so cold filming this – it was already quite cold and raining at that, and this is an outdoor pool (hence the gorgeous light). Still in my (unaltered) FinFolk Shipwreck Siren tail! Top and belt were purchased online, though I…

  • How two fin-tastic Mermaids broke records – Meet The Record Breakers

    How two fin-tastic Mermaids broke records – Meet The Record Breakers

    This is the tail of how two Las Vegas Mermaids made a splash breaking two new Guinness World Records titles. Ariana Liuzzi and Logan Halverson broke the record titles for Most air rings blown underwater in one minute and Most 360° downward spins underwater in one minute in Las Vegas.

  • Shipwreck Freediving in the Virgin Islands

    Shipwreck Freediving in the Virgin Islands

    We find a shipwreck of a tug boat with some crazy life below the surface! We have been so amazed by the freediving in the Virgin Islands! How do you think this tug got there?!

  • Turkish diver Åžahika Ercümen breaks women’s free-diving world record

    Turkish diver Åžahika Ercümen breaks women’s free-diving world record

    National sportswoman and world record-holding diver Şahika Ercümen on Oct. 28 broke the 90-meter women’s cave diving (without fins) world record at the Gilindire Cave in Aydıncık, a town in southern Turkey’s Mersin. The cave was discovered by a shepherd in 1999 and dates back to the Ice Age. The freestyle driver said she was overjoyed at earning the…

  • 83-year-old freediver dies in Kaneohe Bay

    83-year-old freediver dies in Kaneohe Bay

    An 83-year-old male freediver who was found unresponsive in about 8 feet of water this afternoon off of Heeia Kea Pier in Kaneohe Bay was pronounced dead at the scene, Emergency Medical Services said. The Honolulu Fire Department responded to a diver in distress with seven units, including Air 1, and 20 personnel. The first…

  • The Mermaid & The Gardener

    The Mermaid & The Gardener

    Underwater poetry in French Polynesia. Check out http://www.coralgardeners.org/ to adopt a coral. A HUGE HUGE thank you to Ben not only for filming this, but for being so generous with his creativity and also letting this live on my channel. It means so much to me and hope it makes you think about all the…

  • First Freedivers Visit ‘Great Escape’ Sub

    First Freedivers Visit ‘Great Escape’ Sub

    A British freediving team has become the first to dive the 52m-deep wreck of the WW2 submarine HMS Perseus, off the Greek island of Kefalonia. The Perseus hit an Italian mine in 1941 but the wreck remained undiscovered until 1997. The story of the seemingly miraculous ascent of the sole survivor has since made the…

  • Maldives Breaks the Freediving World Record with 520 Participants

    Maldives Breaks the Freediving World Record with 520 Participants

    Maldives goes on Guiness World Record for the most people freediving simultaneously, with 520 participants on Tuesday, 1 October 2019. The small island nation renowned for its breathtaking natural beauty and luxury hospitality broke the world record previously held by Italy; ‘La Scuola del Mare 2’ (Verona), in Torri del Benaco, Verona with 280 people.…