Category: Freediving
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Judges Resign Over Line Measurement Error At Freediving World Championships Pre-Competition
The day before the formal competitive start of the 2015 AIDA Individual Depth Championships (#aidaworldchampionship) has seen some fallout from the recent error that caused the dive line to be set 10m deeper than expected during a World Record attempt by Guillaume Nery and helped contribute to a black out and squeeze to the French Freediver.…
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Freediving Monterey, Calfornia
This video is a collaboration project with local diver/videographer William Mariano. He produced a majority of the clips featured, while I worked on editing. We teamed up with members of the group “CSUMB Freedivers”. Spending the entire summer diving every spot from Monterey to Carmel.
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Depth marker mistake nearly kills French freediving hero Guillaume Néry
Organizers and judges at the 2015 AIDA Individual Depth Championships (#aidaworldchampionship) Pre-Competition in Cyprus are looking into how a line was set to the wrong depth and causing the diver – French Freediving hero Guillaume Nery – to dive to -139m/456ft instead of -129m/-423ft that he had announced the night before. 10m/33ft doesn’t sound like…
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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…