Happy New Year to freedivers everywhere! The week after Christmas is a time when most people pledge to improve themselves in an area in which they have been a tad lax. Let’s face it, most of us could shine a bit more in some way, right? It seems many resolutions involve living healthier. This so easily applies […]
Freedive Safety Tips at the Blue Wild
Every year, the Blue Wild Ocean Expo in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida delivers the best of the best in the sport of freediving. And that includes freedive safety advocates, experts, speakers, demonstrations, and tips. Our sport can be glamorous, thrilling, heart-pumping, and sexy, but it’s none of these unless you’re alive and kicking. And that’s where […]
F.I.I. Competition to Benefit DiveWise
Freediving Instructors International (F.I.I.) will be hosting a charity breath- hold competition at the 2015 Blue Wild Ocean Adventure and Marine Art Expo on Saturday, February 21 at noon at the Nautical Ventures Pool. The competition will be hosted by 13x World Record Freediver Martin Stepanek with special guest World Record Spearfisherman Cameron Kirkconnell. The […]
2015 Blue Wild Ocean Expo
Without a doubt, the Blue Wild Ocean Adventure and Marine Art Expo is the biggest and best freediving and spearfishing consumer show in North America, which is why you should be there Saturday & Sunday Feb. 21 & 22 from 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.! It seems impossible, but every year Sheri Daye, the show’s […]
BLACKOUT: Are You Prepared?
Blackout lurks at the door of every freediver and no one is exempt from this threat. But we can learn how and why freediver blackout happens and what we can do to ensure we survive blackout if it happens to us. How can you be more proactive in securing your own safety while freediving? This […]
DCS Risk: Freediving After Scuba
A Navy SEAL, who is getting involved in freediving, recently asked me if he could get decompression sickness (DCS) if he freedived after scuba diving. It’s a good question. I’ve read discussions on this subject and have tossed the idea about with extreme freedivers in the past. But before answering the SEAL’s question, I wanted […]
The Skinny on Freedive Surface Intervals
One of the important aspects of freedive safety is taking time between dives to rest before beginning the next dive. It’s listed in our Freedive Safety Guidelines; these guidelines are the result of a collaborative effort that involved elite freedivers, spearfishers, scientists, and safety advocates in our country, including DiveWise. It is recommended a diver’s […]
DiveWise To Sponsor UHMS Diver’s Day
Julie Richardson, President and Founder of DiveWise, will be joining the Undersea & Hyperbaric Medical Society Gulf Coast Chapter as an official sponsor of this year’s special Diver’s Day event on Thursday, September 11th. Diver’s Day is a new addition to the UHMS Annual Meeting and allows guest divers, non-medical and non-members to attend Thursday’s […]
Doing Something Breathtaking
Although DiveWise is primarily focused on furthering safety in the breath-hold sport of freediving, there are many breath-hold sports that involve risks which need to be mitigated. This week we are taking a look at breath-hold safety for the underwater escape artist Alexanderia the Great, whose work is truly breathtaking. Alex’s act involves her wearing […]
Diver Down Flags: Do You Know the Law?
In January 2009, just northeast of the St. Lucie Inlet, 26-year old Rob Murphy was struck by a boater who ignored the diver’s properly displayed diver down flag and ran him over, striking both of Rob’s legs below the knee with his propellers. Rob lost half his blood volume and nearly lost his life. Due to […]