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You may not make it to the bottom on the first day NoTanx AIDA 2* Freediver Course more...

Analysing Sara

Sara Campbell, the British woman who took up competitive freediving only last year, amazed everyone by taking three world records within months. Fellow British freediver Mark Harris probes her on the secrets of her success. Pictures by Laura Storm more...

No limits

Scuba divers can benefit from freediving theory and practice, believes Emma Farrell, who trains divers to improve their breathing. One Breath is her new book, with photographs by Frederic Buyle, and this extract concerns the more extreme end of the sport more...

ALTITUDE WITH ATTITUDE

Just what the world needs - another freediving record! But this is one with a difference, as world champion freediver Carlos Coste invites scuba diver Dan Burton to help him conquer one of the deepest - and highest - lagoons in the Andes Mountains more...

Freediving with HUMPBACKS

YORAM ZEKRI MOVED TO FRENCH POLYNESIA five years ago. We kept in touch, meeting at dive shows and freediving competitions, and then he asked if I would like to come and tour the islands with him. I said yes. I knew that September would be the perfect season to dive with one of the ocean's biggest animals - the humpback whale. more...

Diving for your country

The closest thing we have to competitive diving is our free-diving team. So what's it like to dive for Britain? Ladies captain Anne-Marie Kitchen-Wheeler kept a diary of the team's two-week stay in Ibiza for the recent World Free-diving Championships. It's a tale of mermaids, sambas, tequila slammers and questionable practices in wetsuits... more...
Win a Luxfer pony cylinder
DIVER Magazine’s Big Question this month asks: Are enough younger people coming into diving? Answer yes or no, and feel free to comment.

Freediver shifts goalposts with mammoth dive

Patrick Musimu, from Belgium, has become by far the deepest freediver in the world by plunging to a staggering 209.6m in the sport's No Limits category, descending on a weighted sled and shooting back to the surface behind a lift-bag. more...

The Freediver by Alki David

The Freediver by Alki David more...

Chance to become a female freediver

A Bristol-based trainer is looking for a female freediver who has the potential to become an effective competitor in the sport. Training and a chance to progress to British team trials are being offered. more...

New freediving record claim brings confusion

Austrian freediver Herbert Nitsch has claimed a new world depth record of 172m in freediving's deepest discipline, No Limits - yet the dive was 37.6m short of that achieved by another freediver three months ago. Confused? more...