Divers tend to think of decompression sickness (DCS) as an affliction of compressed gas diving, but as scuba instructor turned freediver Charly Stringer reports, free divers...
PRESS RELEASE 14 December Blue Ridge, Georgia – Ted Harty, founder of Immersion Freediving, announces the launch of his latest project: Freedive University! This new online...
With the breath-hold community reeling after the alleged doping scandal at this year’s Vertical Blue competition, we thought it important to understand what exactly constitutes doping...
There’s a movement afoot to ban breath-holding in pools in an effort to prevent hypoxic fatalities—Sorry, no freediving or scuba training for you! Unfortunately, as dive...
This month we take a plunge into the wild world of freediving. You are holding your breath, aren’t you? In our view, the diving community writ...
Sporting vegan diets, yoga, meditation, breath work and plenty of Mucinex, freedivers are often considered to be the woke, hippy contingent of the diving community—backpacks anyone?...
Breath-hold diving as a whole, particularly spearfishing, does not have a good safety record due to the large percentage of breath-hold divers who are untrained, but...
Now, just like their triathlete counterparts, freedivers will be able to access their realtime biometric performance data, including heart rate and blood-oxygen saturation, enabling them to...
What do you get when you cross a diver’s inner Wim Hof with the urge to exercise their mammalian dive reflex? Freediving cold enough to take...
Decompression sickness (DCS) is a known risk for compressed gas divers, but until recently it wasn’t on the radar for their breath-hold counterparts. However, as a...
