Category: Freediving
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Freediver Walks 107 M Underwater in One Breath to Break Record | Guinness World Records
Vitomir MariÄić (Croatia) can’t walk on water, but he can do the next best thing – walk under it. After walking a total of 107 m (351 ft 0.5 in), he has broken the record for the longest underwater walk with one breath (male). The previous record belonged to fellow Croatian freediver Boris Milosic, who…
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Diver Gets Disorientated Swimming in Frozen Lake as Frantic Rescuers Try to Smash Ice | Daily Star
This is the heart-stopping moment a free diver gets disorientated while swimming in a frozen lake as his desperate colleagues try to smash the ice to get him out before he drowns. Slovak athlete Boris Oravec, 31, was taking part in the 20-meter under-ice swim when he became disorientated and began to desperately search for…
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GoPro Awards: Frozen Lake Freedive
Channel your inner penguin with Andrew Ryzebol and Geoff Coombs 🐧 Think you could hold your breath in these frigid waters? 🥶
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Follow Korea’s Oldest Free Divers on Their Underwater Treasure Hunt | ABC News
The volcanic island of Jeju is a wild paradise home to haenyeo, the women of the sea. Follow us as we join the free divers on a treasure hunt along its winding coast. Read more here: https://ab.co/3nAZFpy
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Hong Kong Freediving Takes Photographer on a Breathtaking Underwater Journey | South China Morning Post
Practiced for thousands of years by pearl divers and spearfishermen, freediving has grown to become a popular recreational and competitive sport around the world. Freediving requires swimmers to hold their breath until they resurface. In Hong Kong, there has been a growing community of freedivers in a city not widely associated with nature. But since…
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Dubai Has Built the World’s Deepest Pool | The B1M
Dubai’s latest record-breaking construction project is really making waves.
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South Africa’s First Black Free Dive Instructor Turns Tide on Apartheid History
Five youths from Cape Town’s Langa township squeeze into wetsuits for a snorkelling lesson with South Africa’s first Black diving coach — turning the tide on decades of apartheid history in which water sports were reserved for wealthy whites. Zandile Ndlovu’s Black Mermaid Foundation aims to introduce the ocean to the country’s black youth, millions…
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Freediving: Artnik Breaks Own World Record With 122m Dive
Slovenian freediver Alenka Artnik has further improved the constant weight world record she set three days ago by plunging as far as 122 metres deep at the Vertical Blue competition in the Bahamas. Read Total Slovenia News
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Shark Attack Survivor Filled With Gratitude | NBC Bay Area
A San Francisco shark attack survivor is filled with gratitude after walking out of the hospital on the same day of the attack. Jean Elle reports.