Monthly Archives: April 2010

Yasemin Dalkilic, the turkish freediver who operates under the F.R.E.E., has just announced on her website that she is cancelling the 125m Variable Ballast record attempt on the 2nd May 2010 in Kas, Turkey. Her website reports that training was … | READ MORE… →

Today at Deans Blue Hole, on the last day of William Trubridge’s Vertical Blue 2010 invitational, Eric Fattah entered an elite league of freedivers who have successfully reached 100 meters in competition. Fattah’s roundtrip dive to 100m CWT took three minutes and 21 seconds. … | READ MORE… →

Deans Blue Hole is where William Trubridge continues to take care of business. Today he showed his quiet yet relentless strength and sheer determination by setting a new world record dive to 95 meters in the discipline that he has now defined, constant … | READ MORE… →

Nestled in a sunny corner of the Pacific lies Honaunau Bay, just off the Kona coast on the big isle of Hawaii. Green sea turtles, frolicking dolphins and humpback whales all migrate through this idyllic bay. And so do freedivers. … | READ MORE… →

Canadian Freediver Eric Fattah took the the Canadian Constant Weight record to a new depth of 90 meters April 22, 2010 at the Vertical Blue Competition held in Long Island, Bahamas. Circumstances had it that he actually forgot his neck … | READ MORE… →

Misuzu Hirai, known by her freediving pals as “Mimi”, is now officially the deepest woman in Japan. Competing at William Trubridge’s Vertical Blue 2010, Mimi found success on April 23, 2010, when she  performed a 74 meter dive in the discipline of constant … | READ MORE… →

Long Island, Bahamas.  United States Apnea Association (USAA) reports that Robert King established a new United States Men’s Freediving Record, diving with his mono fin to a depth of  90 meters (293 feet) CWT.  His record-setting performance took place during this year’s … | READ MORE… →

Japanese freediver Ryuzo Shinomiya has secured his place among the giants at the Vertical Blue 2010 freediving competition. Known as the “Okinawa Dragon” (because he is the first man from Asia to reach the 100 meter depth mark,) Ryuzo now has a new Japanaese … | READ MORE… →

William Trubridge became the world’s first athlete to achieve a 300 ft  (92m) dive in the discipline of “constant no fins” on April 19, 2010. Competing at Vertical Blue 2010 in Deans Blue Hole Bahamas, Trubridge’s historic dive can be … | READ MORE… →