Category: Freediving

Ant Williams can hold his breath for eight minutes underwater. Eight minutes. Underwater. Using just one, single breath and no tanks, he can dive 100 meters down, into the black folds of the ocean and safely return to the surface. One breath. For reference, many proficient free divers struggle to make it even 30 meters…

Chances are, you aren’t swimming in the deep blue waters of the ocean as you read this. If you are, congratulations on accomplishing a feat of modern technology and multitasking. For those of us who are confined to our laptops, this video is here to allow us to live vicariously through Dean Fredericks, a freediver…

The Yucatan Peninsula is rife with deep, sometimes creepy and hauntingly beautiful underwater caves called cenotes. Some have multiple layers of fresh water, seawater, stalagmites and stalactites and even trees. Many remain undiscovered and their depths unexplored. Freediver and scuba instructor Julien Borde, of Playa Del Carmen, explores this subterranean world for a living. Dive…

Recreational freediving around Sipadan Island, Malaysia September 2015. Via Deeper Blue

I get to Morrison’s Quarry in Chelsea, Que., just north of Ottawa, on a cold and blustery day. It feels like – 21 with the wind chill, and Philip Beauchamp is chainsawing a portal into the icy water below. We’re about to jump in. This is an extreme sport. Free-diving means no air supply —…

Freediving trip in Bonaire with my dive buddy Clement.

FreeDom is what we feel underwater, but also is FREEdiving in DOMinican Republic. Place where I filmed this movie and make one of the most memorable thing in my life. I was freedive through the 100 meters underwater caves of karst lakes Dudu.