Category: Freediving
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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. Watch this video on YouTube
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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. Watch this video on YouTube
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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. Watch this video on YouTube
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Adam Stern 104 metre dive in Dominica
My 104 metre constant weight dive at the Blue Element Freediving Competition. The dive itself felt great and easy and we were diving in such stunning conditions. The dive site itself is a volcanic crater and we had very deep water very close to the shore. Watch this video on YouTube