As I’m way to busy with some major upgrades to the website this weekend, I’ll make it a quick one today with some nice video’s. During the x-bbh competition in Dahab, Norway got 3 new national records. CWT 77 by Bjarte Nygard, CNF 54m by Steinar Schjagerand FIM 58m also by Steinar, which looked more like CNF.
Some new video footage arrived from the PFI team. They show Rosibel Molina and Erin Magee doing their national record dives. As a side note, I got a message that the underwater scooter races are continuing as planned and that there will be an update about that later on.
This is a nice compilation! German Anna von Boetticher has set four national freediving records in Dahab, Ras Mohammed and Crete in 2008 and they made a nice video of it.
Now that SETT (the 30 meter deep dive tank in the UK) is closed for public, it’s time to find other deep indoor freediving facilities. In Norway they have SETT’s little sister, which is a 18 meter deep training tank from the Norwegian Navy. It’s situated at Haakonsvern (Bergen, Norway) and it actually looks pretty nice, even if it’s a lot smaller then the UK facility. Know any other good deep indoor pools?
During a freediving competition in Nimes (France), Fred Sessa set a new French national record in the discipline dynamic with fin with a length of 244 meters. It appears that he stopped intentionally because the competition didn’t have world record status. But he’s confident that he will get the world record next time.
Watch the video below, which is in French, to see some footage and an interview with Fred. The freediving part starts around 11:40 minutes and ends around 20:00 minutes.
If you can’t see the video above, click here!
The first video is out from the Performance Freediving International event that is taking place in the Caymans. It’s all about giving you an overview and getting to know the freedivers that are competing at the competition over there.
In the mean time the first results are also in which consists of some personal best. There are some competitors who are going for national records in the coming days, so I will keep an eye on that as well. In the mean time check the results and announcements here.
Who remembers the BBC QED documentary ‘Call of the Deep’? If you do, you’ve been freediving for already a long time! In November 1998 the BBC aired this 30 minute documentary which follows Howard Jones and the UK freediving team to the freediving world championships in Sardinia in June 1998.
If you don’t see the embedded video, click here to view it on Youtube.
On April 25th Michele Tomasi from Italy set a new Italian freediving record in the discipline Dynamic without fins. He swam underwater for 175 meters in a time of 3:04 minutes. Congratulations! Below the video of the dive.
The hard life of Austrian freediver Herbert Nitsch. This time he went on a liveaboard in Palau (Micronesia) en did some freediving for a week. And to make us all jealous he decided to film the whole thing and put it online.
5 great video’s embedded below in one playlist for a total of 30 minutes. Enjoy!
British Pathe, a UK Film Archive which covers news, sport, social history and entertainment from 1896 to 1970, has release some interesting underwater video’s.
The first one is a 1935 news item which shows Monsieur Demanche attempting to beat the record for underwater swimming in an indoor pool in Paris. A crowd of people see him swim 105 metres underwater, beating the record by 4 meters. It”s is the last item and starts around 1 minute into the clip.
The second video shows a 1940 clip which shows an underwater circus;
The last video shows some innovating monofin work from 1969. The new Aqueon Inner-Space vehicle is being demonstrated.
Thanks go to Blue Straggler for the tip.
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