Category: Freediving
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Jonathan Bird’s Blue World: Freediving with Karol Meyer
Jonathan travels to the island of Bonaire to take a course in freediving from Karol Meyer, a world-champion freediver. Soon he learns how to hold his breath and dive—with no scuba tank!
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Freediver Blacks Out During World Record Attempt | Barely Breathing With Annelie Pompe
See EPIC TV Annelie Pompe hates pool training. That’s unfortunate given that her occupation is professional freediving. Not long after summiting the lofty altitudes of Aconcagua in Argentina, she’s back in the pool preparing for another world depth record in freediving. The last time she was in this position she only had two months to…
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Freediver survives orca dragging him under for 40+ seconds
Read The New Zealand Herald Levi Gavin, 23, was collecting kina and crayfish at Horahora Estuary, 30km east of Whangarei on February 10, when an orca grabbed a catch bag attached to his right arm. It dragged him beneath the water for more than 40 seconds before a rope connecting him to the bag came…
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Facing the abyss: Freedivers take on deadly depths in extreme sport
See CNN For most people plunging into the ocean’s cold, dark depths without an oxygen tank would be an alarming experience. But for Ahmad Tahilmet and his friends its one of life’s greatest pleasures. They are freedivers — one of the growing number of young Emiratis who pursue the extreme water sport that is growing…
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Freediving With Scooters – Sharm el Sheikh
A quick GoPro clip of myself and Linda Pagenelli playing around with scooters in Domina Bay, Sharm el Sheikh. Freediving With Scooters – Sharm el Sheikh from Jacques de Vos on Vimeo.
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Swimming with great white sharks
See brisbanetimes Shark expert William Winram, an oceans ambassador for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and free-diving world record holder swims freely with sharks without the protection of a cage.
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William Trubridge – Freediver
A Vimeo Staff Pick – “William Trubridge dives deep on a breathtaking journey into the big blue sea while by land breathing the zen of freediving. More on theavantgardediaries.com” William Trubridge – Freediver from The Avant/Garde Diaries on Vimeo.
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Freediver injured by hit-and-run boat speaks out
Read The Palm Beach Post Jorge Caba’s physical recovery from injuries inflicted by a boat propeller to his thigh and pelvis Sunday is moving along, but he says recuperating mentally has been tough. As he considers his 12-year-old daughter who was on his boat with him that afternoon, he cries. “My daughter doesn’t want to…
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Freediver in serious condition after hit and run off Florida coast
See wptv.com Florida Fish and Wildlife Investigators are looking into an incident about a mile off the coast of Palm Beach near the Breakers that left a freediver in serious condition. Investigators say Jorge Caba is out of surgery with a gash on his leg and a broken pelvis. Caba said he is in a…