Category: Freediving
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Freedivers capture near drowning incident when speared tuna drags diver into depth
See 9News National Jack Strickland had a GoPro camera strapped to his chest when he and his friend Aaron Gallagher went diving for fish, A Current Affair reports. Mr Gallagher was holding his breath as he chased a dog-tooth tuna 17 metres underwater, but when he eventually speared it the fish started to drag him deeper.
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Still – Beautiful Short Film About 72-Year-Old Freediver Carlos Eyles
Via The Atlantic Watch “Still,” a short documentary film about Carlos Eyles, a 72-year-old ocean photographer, author, and free diver. Eyles’ close relationship with the marine world is evident as he serves as the voice of the ocean against environmental and biological threats. http://youtu.be/hvqLC3XC_7E
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NARCOSE – Official trailer
‘The narcosis is the set of phenomena that affect the nervous system of the plunger, entailing disorders of perception.’
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Some Competitors Say Freediving Needs A Safety Sea Change
Read and listen to NPR Free-divers, who take a breath, swim as deep into the ocean as possible and then come back up, come to Dahab from across the world to compete. But a diver’s death in November has raised questions about the safety of the sport, with some divers saying too little has been…
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Swimmer catches 18-pound lobster under Huntington Beach pier
See Orange County Register “I’ve been doing this for about seven or eight years, but always out at Dana Point or Long Beach – never around the pier,†said the 27-year-old, whose father, Mike Ali, owns Zack’s. With his LED flashlight guiding him, Ali scrounged around the pier pilings, diving to about 16 feet deep…
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Free diver and shark researcher William Winram’s new film Great White Sharks
See The Sydney Morning Herald Life as William Winram must be breathlessly exciting. One day you’re ocean diving (without an oxygen tank) to a world record (145 metres down in three minutes, eight seconds); the next you’re swimming with great white sharks and living to tell the tale. There used to be some big-wave surfing…
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What happens to the lungs of a freediver during a deep dive?
Boyle’s law in action, this experiment plunging an upside down liquid meter to -55 meter with 1 liter of air inside. There air compressed to 154 ml at the bottom. Freediver accompanying.
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Bahamas authorities say freediver Nicholas Mevoli showed signs of drowning
See StarTribune An autopsy has found that the death of a 32-year-old New York City man during a freediving competition in the Bahamas was consistent with a drowning, authorities said Friday. Nicholas Mevoli died Nov. 17 after he surfaced from a 72-meter (236- foot) dive with breathing problems and lost consciousness. Police Superintendent Stephen Dean…
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Olympic skier Julia Mancuso deep into free diving
See ESPN When she’s not racing down a mountain at 85 mph, three-time Olympic skiing medalist Julia Mancuso loves to strip down from her snowsuit to her swimsuit. In the offseason, you’ll find the Squaw Valley, Calif., native hitting the beaches in Maui, where she lives part-time. But don’t expect to find the 29-year-old uber-athlete…