Category: Freediving
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Swimmer’s ‘idiotic’ shark hug caught on camera
See 9News The man, whose head is only centimetres from the mouth of the lemon shark, has been bagged on social media for the stunt performed while snorkelling off the Pacific island of Bora Bora recently. The lemon shark moves gently through the water as the snorkeler, dressed in board shorts and flippers, approaches and…
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32-year-old Nicholas Mevoli dies trying to set freediving record
As seen yesterday, now on CNN A New York man trying to set a freediving record died Sunday after he surfaced from a depth of more than 200 feet. Nicholas Mevoli, a 32-year-old from Brooklyn, hoped to reach 236 feet (72 meters) with one breath of oxygen and without the assistance of fins. When he…
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32-year-old Nicholas Mevoli dies in Bahamas free diving contest
Read for instance AP and AIDA‘s statement: It is with great sadness that I inform you that Nicholas Mevoli, of the United States, passed away today after a dive at the 2013 Vertical Blue Competition. Nick had performed a constant weight no fins dive to 72m, reached depth, and swam back to the surface successfully.…
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A very special friendship between a human and a dolphin
“This footage provides a touching glimpse into a unique and special friendship between a human and a bottlenose dolphin. Lasting two decades, it is the longest relationship between a dolphin and human in recorded history.” http://youtu.be/IBCqSRcpmFA
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250 Feet Below 3 Feet of Ice In Speedos – Stig Severinsen Sets New Guinness World Record
Breaking news – Today on a single breath of air, Stig Severinsen sets a new official Guinness World Record by swimming 250 feet (76.2m) below the ice in a frozen lake in East Greenland. The previous Guinness World Record for the same stunt was 236 feet (set by Stig March 2010). Post by Stig Ã…vall Severinsen.
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Behold Formula Three Freediving – One Breath Underwater Motor Racing
Or as described on performancefreediving.com, “Formula 3 Freediving (F3F), the underwater racing concept where Top Gun, meets Formula One, meets Freediving.” F3F PROMO from Performance Freediving on Vimeo.
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Mysterion
A Deeper Blue video of the week: “This week’s video is an almost abstract personal freediving video featuring Japanese Freediver Tomoka Fukuda and filmed by Freediving Photographer Igor Liberti.” Mysterion from Igor Liberti on Vimeo.
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GoPro: Whale Fantasia
“Alan Watts, 3 Sirens, and 3 Humback Whales dance together in a short film that will inspire you. Where you are now is your dream. What will you do?”
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Meet Japan’s badass, elderly freediving women
Via Breitbart – “In Japan, elderly women freedive every day to collect shellfish, a fishing tradition that is struggling to hook the next generation.” See also Tokyo Times: “Women diving into the ocean to pick abalones are known in Japan as “amas†or “sea womenâ€. Ladies diving into waters of up to 20 meters deep have…