Category: Freediving

Antonio Negron is a freediving fisherman who spears each catch on a single breath. Join him on a dive into the waters of Culebra, Puerto Rico and understand the importance of catching only what you need to survive.​

A group of UK adventurers have made history as the first Brits believed to have freedived in Antarctica. Will Glendinning, 40, made the treacherous journey to the planet’s most southerly continent with friend Dave Crump and four other crew members. Freediving involves going underwater without breathing equipment and relies on the diver’s ability to hold…

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 —…