Category: Freediving
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Turkey’s Derya Can shatters Guinness World Record for longest freedive under ice
Turkish Derya Can set a new Guinness World Record for the longest freedive under ice on Friday by diving 120 meters horizontally under the frozen surface of Weissensee lake in Austria. With her dive, Can shattered French Aurore Asso’s record of 112,3 meters and celebrated her success with a Turkish flag. Read Daily Sabah
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GoPro Awards : Frozen Lake Free Dive
Under the icy cloak of the Canadian winter, Matthew Villegas finds himself in an aquatic wonderland as he free dives to the depths of Morrison quarry, in Quebec, Canada.
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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