Category: Freediving
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The Science of Freediving: Your Body’s Amazing Reaction To Water
Read ideas.ted.com In 1949, a stocky Italian air force lieutenant named Raimondo Bucher decided to try a potentially deadly stunt off the coast of Capri, Italy. Bucher would sail out to the center of the lake, take a breath and hold it, and free-dive down one hundred feet to the bottom. Waiting there would be…
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Shark Man – Free Diving with Tiger Sharks
In this web episode we follow Mark Addison of South Africa’s Blue Wilderness free-diving with tiger sharks at Aliwal Shoal. Mark explains his passion for these majestic creatures. http://youtu.be/fr4pFkYWEH8
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Dana Beck Professional Freediver Breath Hold Workshop
In one hour Dana Beck teaches Spencer Barros to hold his breath for 3 minutes. This video shows his successful 2 minute breath hold. Dana Beck is a professional freediver living in NYC and offers classes and workshops. She can be contacted at freedivenyc.com/ Dana Beck Professional Freediver Breath Hold Workshop from 3-Legged Dog on Vimeo.
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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.