Dutch freediver Nanja van den Broek appeared on Dutch TV channel BNN last week with a small program about freediving. The show is in Dutch but in short it’s about the host of the show who says she couldn’t even dive for 8 meters under water when she was a kid and now she wants to improve. In the end, after some coaching from Nanja, she’s able to do 63 meters.
The Dutch Freediving Association just announced that Jouke van Riel from the Netherlands will try to beat the current national variable weight and no limits freediving records. He will attempt to break these in Tower Bay, Sharm El Sheikh on June 25-27.
Currently the Dutch variable weight and no limit records are in hands of Pim Vermeulen with depths of 65 meters. These records were set september 2007, so it is good to see that somebody will finally try to break them.
We wish Jouke good luck with the preparation and attempts and especially safe dives.
This evening Nanja van der Broek her freediving school “Enker” will organize a static freediving competition in the Netherlands and Shark Freediving will present to compete and document the competition live.
At 20:00 (GMT+1) the warming up will start and at around 20:20 the first official top will take place. The competition will take place at swimmingpool “De Estafette” at the Helsinkilaan 1 in Nieuw Vennip (The Netherlands)
Live videostreaming of the competition depends on internet availability and 3G connectivity, but normally you can expect to see several high performing athletes live on our Shark Freediving Live page.
You can also see the announced performances, start times and updated result lists on that page as well. So have fun and good luck to all the athletes.
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