Yearly Archives: 2009

Performance Freediving International (PFI) have launched their website for Formula 3 Freediving (F3F), team based underwater scooter racing whilst freediving. As first announced whilst at DEMA this year, PFI are running a team based underwater scooter competition – called the … | READ MORE… →

DeeperBlue.com has heard that Kimmo Lahtinen (a popular member on the Forums) has been elected as the new AIDA President. The original election in late November 2009 re-elected Bill Stromberg who promptly resigned 2 days later.  A new board election … | READ MORE… →

Belgian Freediver Patrick Musimu announces his comeback to freediving and world record attempts together with Brazilian Freediver Karol Meyer, who have jointly announced a No-Limits Tandem World Record attempt for May 2010, to -140 metres. Sponsored by Buddy Dive of … | READ MORE… →

DeeperBlue.com has just heard that the 3rd Mediterranean Freediving Meeting has been announced in Kalamata, Greece.  In previous years this was a 15 day event with one week of organized depth training / sled diving / record attempts and a … | READ MORE… →

Ocean Encounters founders Fred Buyle and WilliamWinram can take freedivers to places they never dreamed of diving. Bothavid world-class breath-hold divers, they have taken it upon themselves toshare their passion for the underwater world, by bringing breath-hold divingcourses to your … | READ MORE… →

DeeperBlue.com has received reports from AIDA Interntional that Austrian Freediver Herbert Nitsch has set three new World Records in Freediving. Herbert is reported to have set a Variable Weight record to 142m; a Free Immersion record to 112m, and a … | READ MORE… →

The results of the 2009 AIDA World Freediving Championships are available on the official website: http://www.verticalblue.net/events/. The predicted winners of the Gold Medals in the Constant Weight category were favourites Austrian Herbert Nitsch, currently the world’s deepest man and 25 … | READ MORE… →