Category: Freediving
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Isle of Wight freediver at home under the waves
Sam Hutchinson, 18, of School Green Road, Freshwater, began freediving about six months ago, inspired by videos he had seen online. Freediving is when you do not use any breathing apparatus. Sam can hold his breath for two minutes and said he was building this up by training his body to function with higher levels…
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Korea’s Haenyeo Female Freedivers Brave Freezing Waters and a Changing Culture
A group of women walk along a seashore. The water’s cold, but they pull on their goggles, shrug into lead-weighted wet suits and wade in wearing flippers. They disappear beneath the water and embark on a free dive to the ocean floor, capturing sea urchins by hand. It’s winter on the tiny Korean island of…
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Why It’s Almost Impossible to Hold Your Breath for 24 Minutes | WIRED
Spanish freediver Ah-leysh Segura held his breath for 24 minutes and 3 seconds in 2016. How is that possible? Here’s how.
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Meet Icelandic Freediver Kiki Bosch, the Toughest Woman on the Planet
Freediving is cool. Some people are way into it. But would they be as into it if they were from Iceland? Or had to do it in freezing-cold water? Meet Kiki Bosch, a cold water freediver who plies her trade in the frigid waters of the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans. “When you’re in the…
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Irish freediver dies at Dahab’s Blue Hole trying to save female diver
A Dublin man (39) has died following a tragic freediving accident in Dahab, Egypt. Stephen Keenan, from Glasnevin in Dublin, is understood to have encountered difficulty while assisting a female freediver attempting to dive the Arch of the Dahab Blue Hole. Witnesses say the female diver became disorientated underwater and was missing her return line…
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Freediving with Orcas Ft. Underwater Photographer Jacques de Vos
Jacques de Vos is an underwater photographer who spends most his time freediving with orcas. Helped by his crew, this South African became an expert in finding these incredible creatures in the ocean and spending a few seconds swimming with them underwater. We followed the man who freedives with orcas on one of his most…
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Longest distance swam underwater holding breath – Guinness World Records
Free diver Carlos Coste from Venezuela attempted to break his own record for the Longest distance swam underwater with one breath (open water)
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Y40 jump: Guillaume Néry explores the deepest pool in the world
On a single breath of air, Guillaume Néry explores the deepest pool in the world in Italy: Y40. The action is filmed on breath hold by his wife Julie Gautier. https://youtu.be/yzh0woiH7Jw