The new RAID Static Apnea programme, described by the training agency as a “ground-breaking initiative”, is a speciality course restricted to pools or “pool-like conditions”
Freediving
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Italian freediver Alessia Zecchini broke her own CMAS Free Immersion world record by a 3m margin on 19 April, with a 104m dive. The FIM
US-Cuban freediver Francisco ‘Pipin’ Ferreras is set to appeal, after the defamation lawsuit he had brought against streaming service Netflix was thrown out by a
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Three more freedivers have been cracking under-ice dynamic apnea world records without the benefit of thermal protection, at the Norwegian lake in which Stanislaw Odbieżałek
Hot on the heels of Croatian freediver Valentina Cafolla’s 140m under-ice distance record on one breath last week, male diver Stanisław Odbieżałek from Poland has
After Croatian freediver Valentina Cafolla lost an under-ice women’s distance world record she had held for seven years to rival Yasuko Ozeki last week, it
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CMAS, one of freediving’s two world governing bodies, has imposed fines and suspensions on Croatian freedivers Petar Klovar and Vitomir Maričić, following the allegations that
Considerable responsibility is placed on the shoulders of safety divers during freediving competitions, and now international governing body AIDA has devised a training programme for
At the age of 58, Canadian freediver William Winram has claimed a new 140m CMAS world record in the Variable Weight No Fins discipline, in
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Any co-operation between AIDA and CMAS, the two organisations that both claim to act as governing bodies for international freediving, appears to have broken down
The 31st AIDA Freediving World Championship in Cyprus saw completion of the last of its eight competition days yesterday (29 September), and in terms of
Three absolute and one CMAS world record were set at the seventh CMAS Freediving Depth World Championship which winds up today (27 August), with Russian