Category: Freediving
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Record Breaking Professor Freedives for Scientific Research
University of Miami Professor Claire Paris broke the USA Women’s National Freediving record in the freediving discipline of Dynamic No Fins with a three minutes and seven seconds swim of 128 meters (420 feet) on a single breath. She was competing with twelve other athletes in the first annual event. “I am very happy and…
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A Model Held Her Breath For 5 Minutes for this Single Take Music Video
Typically, tying a model up and throwing her to the bottom of a pool isn’t a recommended practice for both legal and moral reasons. However, this new music video for the song “Lydia†by Highly Suspect dares to do just that. You begin to realize something is a bit odd as the video rolls on and on…
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Record-holding free diver Natalia Molchanova missing after dive, feared dead
World record-breaking free dive champion Natalia Molchanova never resurfaced Sunday during a dive off the coast of Spain’s Formentera island and is feared dead, her family said. Molchanova, 53, was diving with a group of three other divers for fun when she disappeared during what would have a dive of a modest depth for her…
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Tom Cruise held breath for over 6 min on Mission: Impossible’s underwater scene
Well, the latest M:I 5 trailer goes deep, with an intense underwater scene. It’s something the adrenalin junkie Cruise has always wanted to do. Cruise told USA TODAY that he worked extensively for the underwater scene shot without a cut, training to have underwater breath holds of 6 to 61/2 minutes. To put it in context, that’s the…
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Freediving: 110 meters on a single breath
Jonathan Sunnex is part of a small group of elite freedivers who plunge hundreds of feet underwater, all on a single breath of air. See CNN https://youtu.be/axz0cudHZTc
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‘Iceman’ puts human limits to the test
Scientists in scuba gear rarely get up close and personal with marine animals, because their noisy breathing scares the creatures away. But professional freediver Christian Redl, 39, who has plunged to depths of 95m just by holding his breath, has managed to get nose to snout with a grey reef shark, and looked a humpback…
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F̫lego РA Sea Dragons freediving TV Series for Canal Off, Brazil
“FÔLEGO” is a journey to discover the ocean in the purest and most radical way: by freediving. Freediving is diving without any artificial equipment using only the air of our lungs. During the different episodes, the freediving record holders Flavia Eberhard and Pepe Arcos will travel to incredible underwater paradises and will experience challenging and…
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Video From Johanna Nordblad’s 50m Under Ice Guinness World Record
Finnish Freediver Johanna Nordblad set a new Guinness World Record for freediving 50m / 164ft horizontally under ice on 14th March 2015. Read Deeper Blue http://youtu.be/Ia8DrZpztUA http://youtu.be/R5b_nNEXmf8
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Teenager dies while free diving in Queensland
A teenager has drowned off the coast of Moreton Island while free diving. The 19-year-old man was with a group of friends who tried desperately to rescue their unconscious mate. The man’s body was ferried to shore on a water police vessel. “It’s a tragic time for the boys involved and their families. They’ve lost…