What Is Freediving?

 Freediving is diving on a single breath of air.

Unlike scuba, freediving is less about equipment and gadgets, but is focused on the individual.

Fitness and technique play a huge part in this serene and enjoyable sport, and by concentrating on those two elements one can experience the underwater world in ways you only imagined.

Freediving places its roots many thousands of years ago, primarily when mankind actively tried to harvest the seas for the first time. Divers would dive for food and later, luxury items like pearls and sponges.

We may have learnt a lot about the body since those days, allowing us to go deeper than most people ever imagined, but the principle remains the same.

Freediving, like conventional scuba is only possible due to the human body's incredible adaptation to pressure. These being the proportion of water in the body, and the ability to pressurise the air spaces in the head.

Many people will have tried freediving, to some extent, whilst snorkelling on holiday. Although snorkelling is very much a surface based activity, many people will have dived deeper than the first couple of metres in order to see something a little closer. Now, although the first few metres are very different from 10, 20, 30, 40 metres or more, they have inadvertently become a novice freediver.

With training we can learn to slow the heart rate, trigger the mammalian dive reflex, hold the breath in our lungs for extended periods, dive to Scuba depths and all whilst feeling totally at one with the water around us.

One of the great advantages of freediving over scuba diving, is the lack of cumbersome equipment.

You only really need two things to freedive, a mask and some fins. Now that's not to say that you wouldn't perhaps appreciate a snorkel, a wetsuit and a weight belt but it shows that we rely on a mere fraction of the equipment needed to Scuba dive safely.

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