Along with your freediving mask, a good wetsuit is a very important piece of equipment in freediving. All too often I see students attracted by the lure of carbon fins or a fancy diving watch, only to have no budget …
Your freediving mask is the most important piece of gear you use in the water. Sure, you might be able to do a line-dive without a mask, with fluid goggles or hektometers but you need a good mask to see …
Oceaner is a company in the Greater Vancouver area. Oceaner started as a dive charter that took divers up and down the coast of BC and Alaska in 1977. They changed to making wetsuits shortly after that. In the early …
Staying warm while freediving is an art, especially in colder waters. During a normal 2-hour dive session you can easily lose more than 700 kcal just on heat loss, and if you lose heat too fast, your dive session will …
This post was submitted by Dave Forcucci, a freediver based in Washington State. Dave decided to buy an underwater speedometer and to test freedive fin efficiency. You can read the results of his extensive testing here.
It is difficult to …
If you have not heard of Eric Fattah but are interested in the history of competitive freediving, now is the time. In 1998 Eric invented fluid goggles, not realizing that Roland Specker had invented similar goggles in France …
This post was submitted by Luca Malaguti, a freediver based in Vancouver, Canada.
A few months ago I was diving with my fiberglass monofin, looking for crabs near the shore. My fin got stuck between two rocks in a narrow …
The first wetsuit I ever used for freediving was a surfing wetsuit. The finest cheapest I could find. It came from Decathlon in France, and had a 5.5/4.5 mm longjohn and a 5.5/4.5 mm jacket. Combined I had 11 mm …
Manage Your Mind is part two of the Yoga For Freediving series by Sara Campbell. Manage Your Mind is a series of lectures and guided meditations that are designed to help you quiet your inner demons. Both the demons that …
Yoga for Freediving is one of the best ways to train for freediving. Pranayama, meaning breath control in Sanskrit, is a discipline that finds its origin in ancient India. In western culture, yoga is commonly seen as a stretching exercise, …
