Category: Freediving
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Ontario diver uses axe to escape ice in Georgian Bay
An Ontario freediver who has been under the ice more than once freed himself from icy waters in Georgian Bay last month using only an axe. Video taken from both under and above the water shows Egor Nesterenko of Toronto as he uses an axe to slowly chip away at the ice, with two of…
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Scuba Diving One of Hawaii’s Most Dangerous Cliff Side for Sunken Treasure! (Spitting Caves)
In this video I explore Hawaii’s Spitting Cave underwater for lost valuables!
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Claustrophobic Underwater Adventure ‘FREEDIVER: Triton Down’ Coming to PC VR Next Month
Archiact, the studio behind VR games Evasion (2018) and Waddle Home (2016), are diving into new territory soon with an upcoming VR experience that promises to give claustrophobics and thalassophobics (people afraid of open bodies of water) a shared reason to never put on a VR headset ever again. See Road to VR
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Video: Tudor dares to dive with David Beckham
Tudor has shared footage of its “Dare To Dive†challenge with David Beckham and world free diving champion Morgan Bourc’his. The challenge became Beckham’s first ever free diving experience and, wearing the Pelagos watch, he aimed to conquer his fear of open water. Beckham commented: “These are the moments when you are born to dare.…
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Kiwi free-diver Ant Williams breaks second world record for deepest ice dive
Less than 48 hours after breaking the world record for the deepest dive under ice, Kiwi free-diver Ant Williams has done it again. On Saturday (NZ time), Williams plunged 75m below the ice in northern Norway to beat the record he set on Thursday by five metres. He broke the previous record by five metres two…
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Ant Williams breaks record deepest dive under ice
Professional free diver Ant Williams broke the record for the deepest dive under ice, reaching a depth of 70 metres. See ABC https://youtu.be/9nHCDueIRvQ
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Behold This Poetic Freediving Video Featuring Stig Pryds
Stig Pryds is a Danish record holding freediver. He was diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis in 2008, which disabled him so much that he lost his business. After 5 years of intense pain and increasing dependency on drugs, he decided to quit all drugs cold turkey, and find alternative ways to deal with his disease. He…
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Japanese Master Inventor Plays With Drowning For Ideas
“Unless I push myself to 0.05 seconds before death, the invention won’t come”
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This California Prison Teaches Inmates to Dive Deep
At the California Institution for Men, a state prison in Chino, there’s a program that trains inmates to dive deep. Here, at the on-site Marine Technology Training Center, students study commercial diving both underwater and in the classroom. Founded in 1970, the 18-month course has graduated hundreds of men—many of whom have gone on to…