Category: Freediving
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Unbounded by Gravity, This Free Diver Can Follow His Dream to Fly | Short Film Showcase
Free diver Francisco Del Rosario finds his escape in the world beneath the waves. In this short film, directors Jack Pirie and Alex Hylands-White follow Del Rosario as he free dives on the remote island of El Hierro in the Canary Islands. While suspended in weightlessness under the water, Del Rosario’s dream to fly can…
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William Trubridge CNF World Record Freedive 102m
In July 2016, I broke my longstanding (5.5 years!) record in the purest freediving discipline, Constant Weight No Fins, by swimming to 102 meters (334 feet) and back on a single breath of air, and with no propulsive assistance. The dive was televised to breakfast TV in NZ, and sponsored by Steinlager Pure. Featured in…
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Braving the Waters of Bimini with Shark Girl
As long as she can remember, Jillian Morris has loved sharks. To get closer to them, she moved to the tiny island of Bimini in the Bahamas—the shark diving capitol of the world. There, she photographs one of the world’s most alluring shark species, the great hammerhead. In addition to her underwater photography, Morris educates…
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Suicide Squad: Margot Robbie held her breath underwater for five minutes
While Suicide Squad is filled with CG, many moments are not, including Margot Robbie’s underwater fight. The Harley Quinn actress told Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show she learned to hold her breath for five minutes, even though the scene required she do so only for one. “I worked with this amazing free-diver, and he came in and I did four sessions…
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REFLECTIONS – of an underwater cameraman
There aren’t many of us swimming about and diving in the North Atlantic all year around. Film makers try to record and articulate what’s occurring in a given situation. After ten years in the seas around Ireland, it felt like a natural thing to turn the mirror on myself, perhaps because of the solitude of…
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Arthur Guérin-Boëri, The First Person To 300m
Frenchman Arthur Guerin-Boeri recently competed in the 9th CMAS Apnea Indoor World Championships in Lignano Sabbiadoro in Italy and set Freediving history with an amazing 300m / 984ft Dynamic Apnea swim. To put that in perspective that is six lengths of a 50m Olympic sized swimming pool – it can only be described as epic! Read interview here on DeeperBlue.com
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AIDA 2016 Pool Freediving World Championships To Be Streamed Live
See Individual AIDA Pool World Championships on Facebook and aidafinland.org
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Vision Films Releases “On a Long Breath” Freediving Documentary
Immerse yourself in a world that is truly harmonious with nature. Imagine six minutes without breath, slipping below the ocean’s surface to frolic with sperm whales, swim in tandem with a giant moray eel, and glide fearlessly with shark predators. World champion freedriver Pierre Frolla experiences that and more in this captivating underwater adventure…and you’re…
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Video: Florida man rescues tangled juvenile shark
A Florida man was able to free a tangled juvenile nurse shark he spotted struggling during a freediving trip on Wednesday, and the whole thing was caught on video. Szilard Janko, an underwater photographer from Hallandale Beach, said the hook pierced the shark’s mouth and the attached line was wrapped around the reef near Anglin’s…