Category: Freediving
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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…
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Stig Severinsen – “The Man Who Doesn’t Breathe”
“Demonstrating extreme skill, incredible bravery and intense dedication, four-time, Danish World Champion freediver, Stig Ã…vall Severinsen, achieved a new Guinness World Record when he accomplished ‘the longest dive under ice’, on a single breath of air. Authenticating his lifelong passion for water and breath-holding, Stig pushed himself far beyond the limits of any normal human…
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500 feet below ice – Stig Severinsen sets new Guinness World Record
Yesterday on a single breath of air, Stig Severinsen sets a new official Guinness World Record by diving 500 feet (152.4m) below the ice in a frozen lake in East Greenland where nobody has ever been diving before! Post by Stig Ã…vall Severinsen.
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‘Pipin’ Ferreras to attempt “no-limits†freedive world record a decade after wife’s death
More than a decade ago, record-setting free diver Francisco “Pipin†Ferreras of North Bay Village lost his wife, Audrey Mestre, when she drowned attempting to exceed his world depth mark in a plunge to 561 feet off the Dominican Republic. […] Ferreras, now 51, retired from competitive diving after his wife’s death. He dissolved his…
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Discover freediving with Laury Thilleman and Guillaume Néry
World freediving champion Guillaume Nery takes Miss France 2011 model Laury Thilleman out for a bit of apnea.
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Conservationist Lesley Rochat swims with sharks to make her point
“Lesley Rochat, also known as the Shark Warrior due to her passionate efforts in shark conservation, is a marine and shark conservationist, filmmaker, photographer, writer and inspirational speaker. She is also a GoPro Ambassador in South Africa. She takes us on a visually powerful underwater journey into freediving with Tiger Sharks, while providing a strong…