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December 27, 2015 by Julie Richardson

We’ve Got Your New Year’s Resolution Right Here!

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 […]

Filed Under: Freediving Education, Freediving Safety, Spearfishing Wisdom, Training Tagged With: freedive safety, freediver blackout, New Year's Resolution

November 11, 2015 by Julie Richardson

Freedive Incident Database 2004-2014

Freedive Incident Database 2004-2014

Dr. Neal Pollock, Research Director at Divers Alert Network, created and maintains a worldwide database on freediver breath-hold incident statistics.  It is important to understand the true number of fatal and near-fatal incidents will never be completely known, as Neal and his team rely upon individuals to provide  information on such events. Unfortunately, the database has […]

Filed Under: Freediving Safety, Research and Science, Training Tagged With: freedive safety, freediver blackout

February 19, 2015 by Julie Richardson

Freedive Safety Tips at the Blue Wild

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 […]

Filed Under: Freediving Education, Freediving Safety, Spearfishing Wisdom, Training Tagged With: Blue Wild Expo, freedive safety, Freediving Instructors International, Performance Freediving International

February 2, 2015 by Julie Richardson

A New Trend in Breath-hold Training?

A New Trend in Breath-hold Training?

Recently, several safety advocates made me aware of an activity that could become a new trend in underwater breath-hold training. Atlanta Hawks guard Kyle Korver recently shared with Outside magazine his interest in extreme fitness challenges once a year. This year he and four of his hard-core friends relayed underwater for 5K with an 85.2 […]

Filed Under: Freediving Safety, Training Tagged With: freedive safety, freedive training, freediver blackout, Freediving Instructors International, Performance Freediving International

January 27, 2015 by Julie Richardson

F.I.I. Competition to Benefit DiveWise

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 […]

Filed Under: Freediving Education, Freediving Safety, Training Tagged With: Blue Wild Expo, freedive safety, freedive training

January 14, 2015 by Julie Richardson

2015 Blue Wild Ocean Expo

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 […]

Filed Under: Boating Tips & Techniques, Freediving Education, Freediving Safety, Gear & Tools, Research and Science, Spearfishing Wisdom, Training Tagged With: Blue Wild Expo

August 29, 2014 by Julie Richardson

Doing Something Breathtaking

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 […]

Filed Under: Freediving Education, Freediving Safety, Training Tagged With: freedive safety, freedive training, Performance Freediving International

May 15, 2014 by Julie Richardson

Freedive Training: Why You Should Get Certified

Freedive Training: Why You Should Get Certified

I first began freediving by snorkeling with a boyfriend as he spearfished. I borrowed one of his old masks and a snorkel and he bought me a pair of flippers that looked like something a duck might wear. In I went. I knew nothing about it but I learned to purge my snorkel and to […]

Filed Under: Freediving Education, Freediving Safety, Training Tagged With: children freediving, freedive safety, freedive training, Freediving Instructors International, Performance Freediving International, shallow water blackout

February 20, 2014 by Daan Verhoeven

I Am Nicholas Mevoli

I Am Nicholas Mevoli

Obviously, Nick was a much more talented freediver than i am, but when i say “I am Nicholas Mevoli”, i mean that Nick and i were similar in our approach to freediving. He had a passion for water, a joy for being in water, and a love for our freediving community, combined with a certain […]

Filed Under: Freediving Safety, No Limits Diving, Training Tagged With: competition diving, Daan Verhoeven, Nicholas Mevoli, squeezes

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