Lead image: Tech freediver Nick Fazah, pre-breathing a nitrox mix before his dive during Kirk Krack’s March 2025 Chuuk Expedition. “Doing these dives on air is...
A brief history of technical freediving, its advantages and disadvantages, training, and its future By Kirk Krack, Founder and former President Performance Freediving International and Human...
By Kirk Krack. Pictures courtesy of Performance Freediving International (PFI) I designed the PFI Technical Freediving Specialty Course for certified Intermediate Freedivers or equivalent looking to...
These Pioneers are Shaping the Future of Tech Freediving Interviews by Charly Stringer. Lead image courtesy of Matt Stow @freediving_africa. ? Pre-dive Clicklist: Midnight Star – No Parking...
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?...
