If you’ve ever seen the classic cult movie ‘The Big Blue’ you’ll be familiar with an activity called free-diving. It’s a way of diving under the water to great depths, without carrying oxygen tanks on your back. Wollongong academic Michael Adams is a free-diving enthusiast and his essay ‘Salt Blood’, about free-diving, recently won the …
Freediver Forrest Simon owes a lot to his greatest passion, both competitively and recreationally. In this video, he dives much deeper into the analysis of freediving and its health benefits on the conscious mind – its ability to open a new door of fresh perspective, removing you totally from the stresses above water. Sounds a lot like a guided meditation. …
The Islands in the Stream have an eclectic history from the Rat Pack to rum running, but recent notoriety has been all about the great hammerhead shark. Divers from across the globe trek to Bimini’s crystal clear waters to swim with these magnificent creatures. Social media timelines, magazine covers and episodes on Shark Week all …
If you’re a trained free diver like Kimi Werner your average hold could be around two minutes, or when pushed to extremes over four. Hawaiian-born Werner is the former US spear fishing champion, a trained chef, and her clean-living lifestyle is followed by more than 120,000 on Instagram. In 2013 a video showing her hitching …
FREEDIVING has been around for thousands of years but as a sport it’s a relative newcomer. Divers compete by packing their lungs with air, holding their breath and plunging to the bottom of the ocean for minutes at a time.With no oxygen and often no fins, they are lured to extreme depths of inky blackness …
