Dutch Freedivers in Dahab (Teaser)

Three more nights until my first freediving trip to Dahab in Egypt.

The trip is organized by Nanja of dutch freediving school Enker. There will be a group of about 15 dutch freedivers among which four of my teammates of Freediving Utrecht - Danny, Edwin, Erik and me.

On the 18th and 20th I will go sled diving with OnlyOne in Sharm. On the 21st I will attend a mini competition where I get the chance to do one depth discipline for an official Aida ranking. To make the time go a little faster I made this short trailer in iMovie'11. I hope you like it.

One hour successive apnea

During my freedive training between christmas and new years eve 2010 I decided to see how long I could stay under water during one hour. This non-official discipline is called successive apnea and records have been set of around 59:30 and even 59:45.

This movie is speed up 8 times during the breathhold to make it easier to digest. :-)

The rules are: two timekeepers (average time counts). Stopwatch starts with lifting my airways above the surface and stops with me submerging again.

I managed 59:09 (only ;-) ) even thought I did longer breathholds (therefor less times breathing) than the earlier fools. Next time I will need to work on surfacing and inhaling quicker.

Happy new year!