We at Freedive Wire are excited to announce Airpockets. Airpockets is a map that allows you to share and find places you love to dive, as well courses, workshops and more.
…Airpockets: share places you love to dive,
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The MOXY is a muscle oxygen sensor that can measure the saturation of hemoglobin and myoglobin of for example your quads.
Do you think your apnea walks are effective?
They might be. You can practice apnea walking with an oximeter…
A study that has recently gone to press (Bilaut et al., in press) suggests that elite freediving may cause mild, but persistent short term memory loss. The study subjected elite freedivers (>6 min static breath hold), novice freedivers (>4 min …
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 …
You might have come up from a dive and coughed up some foamy pink mucus, or some phlegm with blotches of blood in it. Chances are that you experienced a squeeze. We will discuss the causes for squeezes and squeeze …
How long should your breathe up really be? When you surface from a dive, your body needs to replenish its oxygen stores and high energy phosphates. The body also needs to get rid of the excess CO2 and other …
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Drive, park at the ripple rock trail head parking lot, and hike approximately 3.2km (6.4 total or 8 if you go all the way to the ripple rock lookout) until the trail approaches …
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In the final part of Yoga For Freediving, Sara Campbell teaches us how to prepare for dives. She teaches us how to do a 30 minute …
A shorter version of ‘the image of freediving’ originally appeared as a Freedive Wire newsletter.
It is a sport that only people with a death wish practice. A sport for adrenaline junkies that like to dance with death. A sport …
I have had recurring ear infections since I started freediving. At first I would only get them after pool training, but later I also started getting them after ocean dives. I am unfortunately very prone to ear infections because of …
