Category: Freediving
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Behold This Poetic Freediving Video Featuring Stig Pryds
Stig Pryds is a Danish record holding freediver. He was diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis in 2008, which disabled him so much that he lost his business. After 5 years of intense pain and increasing dependency on drugs, he decided to quit all drugs cold turkey, and find alternative ways to deal with his disease. He…
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Japanese Master Inventor Plays With Drowning For Ideas
“Unless I push myself to 0.05 seconds before death, the invention won’t come”
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This California Prison Teaches Inmates to Dive Deep
At the California Institution for Men, a state prison in Chino, there’s a program that trains inmates to dive deep. Here, at the on-site Marine Technology Training Center, students study commercial diving both underwater and in the classroom. Founded in 1970, the 18-month course has graduated hundreds of men—many of whom have gone on to…
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Freediver Ant Williams: Why I want to dive 70 metres below ice
Ant Williams has swum 223 meters on a single breath. He has freedived to 100m and held his breath for 8 minutes. His next freediving challenge is sub-zero Arctic depths. The 46-year-old wants to break the world record for the deepest ice dive. The record, set in 2015, is 65m on a single breath. See stuff
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Freediving under the ice of Georgian Bay
When Geoff Coombs crunches across the frozen surface of Georgian Bay, near Tobermory, Ont., he’s toting not just an auger and an axe, but a snorkel, a pair of 74-centimetre-long carbon fins and a single-minded desire: to dive under the ice.
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Champion Freediver Shows Incredible Oceans He Explores on Just One Breath of Air
World champion freediver Guillaume Néry is back with a stunning short film titled One Breath Around the World. Together with his wife Julie Gautier (also a skilled freediver), Néry takes us on a voyage under the worldwide seas. Passing through the waters of France, Finland, Mexico, Mauritius, Japan, French Polynesia, and the Philippines, Néry is our spirit guide…
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Freediver swimming Cook Strait for endangered dolphins
New Zealand’s freediving champion William Trubridge is expected to complete his dolphin-like 22km swim across the Cook Strait largely in under 10 hours this evening. He was due to finish up between 6pm and 7pm this evening, after embarking on his swim from Wellington this morning in a personal effort to highlight the plight of…
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One Breath Around The World
Our new short film (12 min) is finally out. Turn out the light, put your headphones and freedive with me around the world.