With the passing of time, breaking world records become ever more challenging for freedivers – and even more so when bad weather takes a hand.
Freediving
Plunge into the exhilarating world of freediving. We bring you the latest news, records, and developments from this extreme sport that combines physical prowess and mental fortitude.
From the daring depths reached by athletes to the breathtaking beauty they encounter, we cover all aspects of this unique and inspiring discipline.
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The world record for Deepest Underwater Model Photoshoot looks set to change hands once again – with the location moving indoors and shooting depth lowered past
World breath-hold records in the many categories under CMAS pool competition rules started falling from the opening day of the Belgrade World Freediving Indoor Championship
Croatian freediver Boris Milošić, 27, has claimed a new world record for the longest underwater walk completed on one breath, after covering a distance of
Only a single world record was set at the 32nd AIDA Pool World Championship at Kaunas in Lithuania last week, and it went to a
Dive RAID International has sensibly been stringing out announcements of a wide range of new courses over the past few months, but its latest is
In two developments nudging freediving that bit closer to the world of mainstream sports, a Netflix documentary about a world record-breaker has won an Emmy
Polish freediver Mateusz Malina has set a new CMAS world record in the Dynamic No Fins (DNF) pool discipline with a 238m breath-hold swim. It
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”
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
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
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
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
Eight new world records, set by five freedivers at the peak of their powers, was the impressive tally at this year’s Vertical Blue competition. No
Colombian freediver Cristian Castaño Villa has been bitten by what was reported to be an oceanic whitetip shark, while he was depth-training near the southern
Static apnea is the freediving discipline that involves breath-holding while face-down and motionless in water. And the first rule drummed into freedivers is never to
It’s the true, compelling story of freedivers Alessia Zecchini and Steve Keenan – STEVE WEINMAN previews the latest dive-related offering to come on stream. More
Two Croatian freedivers, one an AIDA world-record holder, have been banned indefinitely from Vertical Blue depth competitions after arriving in the Bahamas allegedly in possession
To mark Armed Forces Day on Saturday, 24 June, PADI dive-centre Dive In Falmouth in Cornwall is offering serving members of the Armed Forces and
A single world freediving record was broken at the 30th AIDA World Championship event in the Olympic-sized pool at Jeju Stadium, South Korea. It came on
Freediver Ruth Osborn has set a British depth record that had stood unchallenged for nearly 16 years. Her 82m Free Immersion (FIM) dive broke by
TDI, the other big name in technical diving, has also taken the plunge into recreational diving. Formed in 1994 in the USA by technical diving
When the DIR (Doing It Right) philosophy of diving first arrived from the USA, Brendan O’Brien wrote what was, it must be said, a somewhat
Reports from Korea indicate that John Bennett was lost, and is presumed dead, after a 45m trimix salvage dive on a wreck on Monday 15