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 …
In May this year, I went for a 3-km open water swim. Thanks to a combination of imperfect technique, waves, and being negatively buoyant I managed to get water up my right frontal sinus.The day after I felt pressure behind …
Habits are a powerful tool for us human beings. We are able to do most of our day to day without actually thinking about it. Our habits allow us to reserve our energy for the more important things in life. …
How much training is enough? How much training should you do today? Did you recover from yesterday’s exercise? Are you coping well with your training or not?
Many of these questions can be answered by using heart rate variability and …
This article describes the effects of peripheral and central chemoreceptors, how they function in the human body and what pivotal role they have in freediving physiology. It’s a long read, I know, but well worth it. These topics were part …
It had been a few years since I picked nutmeg, and cocoa beans in the lush tropical forests of the West Indies. I had forgotten what an evening of spiced rhum under the bright stars was like,
My book, ‘Longer and Deeper: cross training for freediving and spearfishing’, is nearly ready. I’m very excited to finally share a sample with you.
I’m also very proud that Aolin Wang, the national record holder of China has written a …
Most people fear holding their breath. Their entire body will scream for air a minute into a breath hold. For them, the thought of deliberately going underwater for extended periods of time without scuba gear seems completely crazy.
And at …
Contractions are the blessing and curse of every breath hold. Contractions provide an easy way to gauge whether your dive is coming to an end. Unfortunately your first contraction also marks the start of the struggle (the struggle phase of …
