Category: Freediving
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SofÃa rocks the Cenotes
Cenotes are a unique and delicate eco-system and deserve a respectful touch. We shot this video on breath hold with minimal equipment in several cenotes over several days and for each different one, we asked permission of the owner and whether we could touch the environment or not. In some cases, it was clear it…
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Video: “Free Surfing†Tahiti With Arnaud Jerald
Ordinarily, “free surfing” refers to any surfing that doesn’t take place during in a competition. However, it also refers to an emergent sport which combines bodysurfing and freediving, at least according to Arnaud Jerald. The 23-year-old is a world record-holding freediver, and perhaps the creator of a new sport. See Teton Gravity
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Finding our Freedom Under a Frozen Lake
Some of us look at a frozen lake and see an inky blackness that should be avoided at all costs. But there are others who look at that layer of ice and see an opportunity to explore an obscure world, both in the lake and within themselves. After cutting a hole into the surface, these freedivers lower themselves into…
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How to Make a Living as a Freediver
How do freedivers make their living? Can you make money freediving? Do freedivers live on sponsorship? Do freedivers have real jobs? I’ve been asked these questions countless times so I thought i’d make a video on the topic. I just finished teaching a freediving instructor course in Bali and I’ve never felt so optimistic about…
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Real-Life Mermaid in Mirror-Like Pool | Stella the Siren
Reflections everywhere… This ‘real’ mermaid swims in a pool with a mirror-like floor! It was so cold filming this – it was already quite cold and raining at that, and this is an outdoor pool (hence the gorgeous light). Still in my (unaltered) FinFolk Shipwreck Siren tail! Top and belt were purchased online, though I…
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How two fin-tastic Mermaids broke records – Meet The Record Breakers
This is the tail of how two Las Vegas Mermaids made a splash breaking two new Guinness World Records titles. Ariana Liuzzi and Logan Halverson broke the record titles for Most air rings blown underwater in one minute and Most 360° downward spins underwater in one minute in Las Vegas.
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Shipwreck Freediving in the Virgin Islands
We find a shipwreck of a tug boat with some crazy life below the surface! We have been so amazed by the freediving in the Virgin Islands! How do you think this tug got there?!
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Turkish diver Åžahika Ercümen breaks women’s free-diving world record
National sportswoman and world record-holding diver Şahika Ercümen on Oct. 28 broke the 90-meter women’s cave diving (without fins) world record at the Gilindire Cave in Aydıncık, a town in southern Turkey’s Mersin. The cave was discovered by a shepherd in 1999 and dates back to the Ice Age. The freestyle driver said she was overjoyed at earning the…
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83-year-old freediver dies in Kaneohe Bay
An 83-year-old male freediver who was found unresponsive in about 8 feet of water this afternoon off of Heeia Kea Pier in Kaneohe Bay was pronounced dead at the scene, Emergency Medical Services said. The Honolulu Fire Department responded to a diver in distress with seven units, including Air 1, and 20 personnel. The first…