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 …
Spearfishing brings with it tons of dangers that we should think about that aren’t covered in the former parts of the ‘risk series’ (shallow water blackout & compromised conditions). First of all, if you are spearfishing you are …
The reading time of this post is about 10 – 15 minutes.
In an ideal situation we dive in water that is crystal clear, warm and flat as glass without any boats around, there is no current and you have …
If you want to find the best freediving locations you will need to do some research. Here you can read how to use bathymetrical maps and terrain maps in order to find the best freediving sites.
If you enjoy freediving and want to dive deeper and longer, you probably have heard of breathing tables and hypercapnia (also known as hypercapnea and hypercarbia). A breathing table is a set of breath holds and ventilations with specific length, …
The waters around Vancouver can be as warm as 20+ degrees Celsius. Unfortunately it is only the top five to ten meters of water that are this warm. Below that surface layer, which only exists in summer, it is a …
