Category: Freediving
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Longest distance swam underwater with one breath (female) – Guinness World Records
Accomplished freediver, actress and model Marina Kazankova (Russia) attempted the Longest distance swam underwater with one breath (open water, female, with fins). She swam for an incredible 154m (505ft 2.98in) to set a new record.
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AMA – a short film by Julie Gautier
“Ama is a silent film. It tells a story everyone can interpret in their own way, based on their own experience. There is no imposition, only suggestions. I wanted to share my biggest pain in this life with this film. For this is not too crude, I covered it with grace. To make it not…
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THIS is how you train for a Freediving Competition
When a Freediving Competition is coming up, this is how I train. Every day includes both conditioning training and pool training.
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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…