Category: Freediving
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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.
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The Story Behind Inter Miami’s Freediver
The pictures of a young lady standing at the bottom of the sea wearing a fútbol kit instead of scuba equipment are so breath-taking that many struggles to believe they could be real. The photos are, however, real and are a result of Inter Miami having shot out of the box to create unique and…
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‘Zandi the Mermaid’ on Being the First Black Female Freediver
Going against the grain and fulfilling one’s true purpose is something Zandile Ndhlovu knows far too well. As the first black freediving instructor in South Africa, Ndhlovu’s journey has been documented on a new dynamic YouTube series titled Free Range Humans. Ndhlovu is part of eight extraordinary people from across the world who are being profiled…
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Freediver Finds Lost Engagement Ring at the Bottom of England’s Largest Lake
Viki Patel popped the question to Rebecca Chaukria and gave her the white gold and diamond ring during a trip to the Lake District on Saturday. Two days later, while on a jetty overlooking Windermere, it slipped off her finger and fell into the water. They feared it was lost forever, but freediver Angus Hosking was…