Category: Freediving
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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…
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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…