Category: Freediving
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Swimming underground
An international crew of six astronauts are training for a caving adventure designed to prepare them for spaceflight. There are many similarities to spaceflight such as a lack of day–night cycle, sensory deprivation, minimal hygiene and the necessity to work as a team and solve problems together. After a week of training they entered the…
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Alexey Molchanov World Record in freediving 125 meters CWT
Nice video from when Alexey Molchanov set a new World Record in freediving 125 meters ‘constant weight’, back in June, 2012.
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Body of missing freediver Rebecca Weiss found
The body of freediver Rebecca Weiss, who went missing in California last weekend while on a dive, has been found. She was discovered floating in the water off the coast of the Palos Verdes Peninsula late Saturday, KNBC-TV reported. She apparently drowned, although the cause of death has not been officially determined. An autopsy is scheduled…
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Brave freediver spears and lands huge tuna amid circling sharks
“For veteran freedivers, spearing a giant yellowfin tuna is an ultimate goal, but one rarely fulfilled because the fish are so swift and elusive. But Wendell Ko, 51, recently bagged an 188-pound yellowfin, on a single breath, off Kona, Hawaii. And he accomplished this feat while surrounded by circling sharks.” Read The GrindTV Blog.
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Great white shark bites surfer in half
A man in his early 20s was surfing with a friend early this morning off the west coast of Australia when he was mauled by a great white shark, which bit him in half. A jet-skier who witnessed the scene described how there was only “half a torso†left of the victim, and that he…
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Sébastien Murat, first man to dive to 150m on empty lungs
That sound mighty uncomfortable, Séb ‘The Sub’ Murat is preparing for his attempt to set a World Record in Free Deep Diving, using a revolutionary technique based on the instinctive behaviour of seals, can he become the deepest man on Earth? “To merely plunge toward a number without testing the waters and obtaining all the…
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Molchanova and son set freedive world records on the same day
This Wednesday June 6, Natalia Molchanova and her son, Alexey Molchanov, both completed successful world record dives, Natalia to 127 meters for the women’s ‘variable weight’ record in a time of 3:38 while Alexey secured the men’s ‘constant weight’ record at 125 meters, in 3:52. These records will be official once the doping test results…
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Trubridge dives to 125m but fails surface protocol
New Zealand’s William Trubridge Wednesday managed a 125 meter (410 feet) ‘constant weight’ freedive, but then failed the official surface protocol that state that within 15 seconds the freediver must give an “OK” hand sign, a verbal “I am OK” and remove their goggles and nose clip within 15 seconds. Meaning it won’t count as…