Category: Freediving
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Free-Diving Under Ice, There Is ‘No Place for Fear’
“There is no place for fear,” says Finnish freediver Johanna Nordblad. “No place for panic. No place for mistakes. Under the ice, you need total control.†She holds the world record for a 50-meter dive under ice. Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/video/ind…
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Russian Freediver Swims Record 100 Meters Under Baikal’s Half-Meter-Thick Ice
A Russian freediver and the freezing but beautiful waters of Lake Baikal– what brought them together? It appears that an astonishing new sports record has. On February 25, freediver Dmitry Sokolov swam 100 meters under a 50 cm-thick sheet of ice covering the world’s largest freshwater lake: Baikal, in Russia’s Siberia. He managed to hold…
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Croatian Diver Holds Breath for Record Long… for Autistic Kids
On Saturday, Croatian free diver Budimir Å obat, father to an autistic girl, held his breath while staying under water for 24 minutes 11 seconds, the Croatian state television channel HRT reported. The record was set at a free-diving event called “static apnea”, a term used to describe motionlessly holding your breath. Commenting on the record,…
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Underwater Target Shooting Championship | Trans World Sport
Trans World Sport travelled to Dubai to report on the inaugural International Underwater Target Shooting Championship.
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Crowdfunding Goal For Hektometer Freediving Goggles Reached In Hours
Remember those Hektometer freediving goggles we reported on earlier this month? Well, the crowdfunding campaign for those goggles launched last week, and it reached its funding goal within the first two hours that the IndieGogo page was live. Over the past few months, the goggles have been tested at the Y-40 pool, and although initially…
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Freediving with Kiki Bosch & Beautiful Destinations
Kiki Bosch is an adventurer, biohacker and freediver who dives in freezing cold water all over the world.
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Pushing the Limits of Extreme Breath-Holding
Brandon Hendrickson had already been submerged face down in the pool for more than four minutes, motionless under the dappled Grand Cayman sky, when the struggle phase began. That’s the term of art among free divers and competitive breath-holders for the point at which the human body, sensing an alarming rise in internal carbon-dioxide levels,…
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Adam Stern is a freediver, which means he can swim up to 300 feet underwater on a single breath
Stern’s deepest dive was 106 meters on a single breath. Now he’s training to become the deepest freediver in the world.