Today’s training was great, diving with Yolande and Anna at Lighthouse 🙂 My goal today was to improve dive time. So I did (4) -30 meter dives FIM, going as slow as humanly possible. (I didn’t do any warm-up dives, just got right to it!)
Awesome challenges today training in the Blue Hole with Fran and Rafael. I felt super ready for my -65 meter FIM dive after a proper stretching sesh last night (10 empty lung + reverse packs laying face down with chest on mini yoga ball, plus chest / lung stretching with the bridge doing very slow pursed lip breathing, 5+ full breaths to the belly, 5+ to the ribs, 5+ to the chest, 5+ complete breaths).
I received a visit from this little ray of light today whilst watering my garden 🙂 After photographing him like a mad woman, and without a macro lens (!), I did a bit of Googling to try and ID him […]
I love sitting at the bottom of the sea, experiencing the ocean’s depth through all my senses, without thinking… just being… This was tough for me at first, because I was always looking for stuff outside myself to do (have […]
A discussion with Sally Norton and Renee Blundon about oxalates and how they impact freediving and athletic performance. We will discuss; what ARE oxalates, what foods are they in, how the ‘super foods’ we are consuming may not be so […]
Join Renee Blundon and her friends for freediving in the Blue Hole in Dahab, Egypt. It’s winter time in Dahab but conditions are perfect for some awesome dives.
It was this time last year when I was in a remote Bedouin fishing settlement of the Sinai with guru Rowan Gillies, who asked me, “How long is your life?”. I didn’t know what kind of answer he was expecting; 80, […]
Why Do We Freedive? Anyone who has been freediving for a while has probably been asked the question, why? Usually it comes from concerned parents or loved ones back home, as soon as you progress beyond, say 40? 50? 60 […]
The Dive I lean back to float Upon the still, bright sea Weightless and suspended Ready to break free Waves cradle my body In this place between two worlds One of breathless skylit air The other clear blue unfurled I […]
Free from Time Deep in the ocean blue I’m alone with my thoughts, Sinking into an abyss Falling towards the edge of something… A desolate path But I travel it anyway Part of me wants to turn back But […]
Taking a no-limits sled ride to the Arch at 53 meters (174 feet) deep in Dahab’s Blue Hole with freediving variable weight world record holder, William Winram. Big thanks to William for filming, as well as Pim Vermeulen, from Immersion Dahab, […]
Free-falling in Dahab’s Blue Hole, drifting effortlessly into the deep, I stare straight ahead, mesmerizingly at the line slipping past, alone with myself and my thoughts, focusing on relaxing, equalizing, and sinking downwards without expending extra energy. Immersed in a […]
I‘m frozen, captivated by the giant, fluctuating mercurial creature before me, which appears to be dissolving into itself. The receding layered tenticals and a silken membrain coasts, radiantly along the surface of the languid waters. Known as a Rhopilema rhopalophora […]
Shark Nostalgia Face to face, in depths quite deep, we stare squarely into the other’s eyes, It is there where we see everything, where we achieve reality, and share in it’s kind existence. From a world full of contrasting aspects, […]
We descend from the rolling waves, deeper and deeper, until greeted by the ocean floor 30 meters below. Immediately, a large and curious remora approaches. He swims silent circles around us and seems to want something, possibly a soul to […]
A lionfish, unquestionably one of the most photogenic fish in the sea, with an eccentric, gaudy profile, elaborate, vibrant stripes and a cantankerous, unhurried demeanor, glides along the reef like an underwater kite. He’s beautiful, he’s dangerous and he knows […]
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