Category: Freediving
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Freediving the plane wreck at NDAC
Freedivers Tim Money and Daan Verhoeven at the NDAC in Chepstow, diving the plane wreck. Tim discovers that his monofin is wider than the door to the cockpit, and momentarily gets stuck. Courtesy of Daan Verhoeven on YouTube
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Branko Petrovic Attempting Longest Breath-Hold World Record at Dubai’s Extreme Sports Expo
Fazza Freediving Champion, Branko Petrovic, will attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the longest breath-hold underwater also known as static apnea next month. The existing record of 11 minutes and 35 seconds underwater on a single breath of air was set by Stephane Mifsud of France in 2009. The Guinness World Record attempt…
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Natalia Molchanova sets new Freediving World Record, 237 meter Dynamic
At the AIDA team world championships in Sardinia, Italy, on Friday the 26th of september 2014, Natalia Molchanova from Russia broke the world record dynamic with a dive of 237 meters. Camera Daan Verhoeven http://daanverhoeven.com
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Amazing Freedive with The Ocean Brothers
A new vision of the sensations and emotions in the oceans. 4′ video WINNER in World ShootOut 2014 Video clip category underwater grand prix. Just camera tricks. No special effects by computer.
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Stunning Video Shows Freedivers Swimming With Tiger Sharks
Christina and Eusebio Saenz de Santamaria, who are record-breaking freedivers, went to Tiger Beach in the Bahamas to deep dive with tiger sharks, fulfilling a dream they’ve had for many years. The couple, who live in a small tropical island off Thailand, trained in the Caribbean paradise in June and shot this stunning video of…
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See Carbon Dioxide Narcosis Hallucinations That A Freediver Experiences
Guillaume Néry is a champion freediver, and his sport exposes practitioners to carbon dioxide narcosis, which can lead to, among other symptoms, powerful hallucinations. This short film is inspired by Néry’s experiences and the things he thinks he sees during a deep water dive. See io9
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Turkish freediver Şahika Ercümen breaks world record
Turkish diver Åžahika Ercümen broke a new world freediving record in the variable weight without fins discipline on July 23, off the coast of the Mediterranean resort town of KaÅŸ. Ercümen performed a 91-meter dive in 2 minutes and 49 seconds, taking the record from another Turkish diver, Derya Can, who broke it last year.…
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Freediver William Trubridge Plunges Into Nightmarish Abyss Without Oxygen
This will take your breath away. In a gorgeously shot video (above) for Steinlager Pure beer, freediving star William Trubridge looks like a man with gills as he plunges — without oxygen tanks — into the depths of the sea. Trubridge appears almost otherworldly, swimming down, down, down into an abyss called Dean’s Blue Hole, located in the…