Category: Freediving
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Sammy the golden retriever takes a class with Immersion Freediving
Sammy the dog has long been afraid of jumping into the swimming pool to get his beloved tennis ball. After hearing about Immersion Freediving in Spearing Magazine and after a search on the internet, Sammy choose to go with Ted Harty at Immersion Freediving.
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How to Swim with Turtles
“Occasionally we scuba divers have the opportunity to observe these amazing creatures up close. There are protocols and do’s and don’ts.” How to Swim with Turtles from New York Video Service on Vimeo.
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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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