Category: Freediving
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Learning to Freedive in Croatia with World-Class Professionals
If I say the word freediving, what comes to mind? The Big Blue, athletes, difficult, holding your breath for an insane amount of time… When I first thought of freediving, that’s what came to my mind, particularly after watching the movie ‘The Big Blue’. Then, I interviewed Lidija Lijić as a ‘Character of the Sea’…
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Perth free-diver Julia Wheeler swims through three tonnes of rubbish in Bali
A Perth free-diver has described the ‘real life nightmare’ of swimming into approximately three tonnes of rubbish floating in the ocean. Julia Wheeler, 31, was horrified upon encountering the mass of human waste products including plastic bags, bottles, wrappers and containers that were trapping and suffocating marine life. The competitive freediver, who can reach 50m depths…
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Justin Bastien Gets The Perfect Underwater Shot w/ Freediver Kimi Werner | Project: Behind the Lens
Go behind the lens with adventure photographer Justin Bastien and discover what it takes to capture jaw-dropping images in some of the most challenging environments around. Join Bastien and freediver Kimi Werner as they explore the island of Kauai in search of the perfect underwater shot.
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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…