Let's talk about something relatedly interesting to holding our breath as freedivers. Have you heard of the word Kabaddi? It is derived from Hindi word that means, ‘holding your breath’. A team sport and perfect for adrenaline junkies, which requires both skill, strength and combines the attributes of wrestling and rugby.
We are proud to announce that our project Freediving UAE is 10 years old! It’s time to draw some conclusions. It’s hard to believe that so many years have passed! It seems that it began just yesterday. But these were really very interesting and intense years. We explored a lot of fascinating things, met many …
Scientists have uncovered the secrets of the Bajau people, long-famed for their ability to hold their breath for extraordinary lengths of time The secret behind the ability of a group of “sea nomads” in Southeast Asia to hold their breath for extraordinary periods of time while freediving to hunt fish has finally been revealed – …
Seaside – About 130 feet below sea level in an underwater cave on the Yucatan Peninsula, Seaside resident Alberto “Beto” Nava and a team of divers found the remains of a teenage girl. She would prove to be the oldest set of American remains yet discovered — a direct descendent of Central America’s …
History of Freediving Scientists have begun to believe that we humans spent many millions of years of our evolutionary development living a semi-aquatic existence. Not as a strange, gilled half-man, half-fish creature, but as an aquatic ape. Standing on two legs in the shallows in order to breathe and evade land-bound predators, our hairy forebears …
