Category Archives: Freediving Competitions & Records
UK 2013 Freediving Championships now an International Pool Competition
The 4th UK Freediving Championships, hosted by Apneists UK, has been granted International Competition Status and is hoping to attract athletes from around Europe and beyond. Held in Liverpool, UK on 9th and 10th March 2013, it will follow the … | READ MORE…
[VIDEO] Suunto Vertical Blue 2012 – a Beautiful World
The very talented photographer Daan Verhoeven has released a video, which you can see below, that showcases some of the fantastic visuals from the Suunto Vertical Blue 2012 competition held in the Bahamas during November 2012.
Suunto Vertical Blue 2012 Comes to an End
The 2012 Suunto Vertical Blue Freediving competition being held at the Blue Hole in the Bahamas has come to an end. Athletes, event staff and supporters are all making their journeys home and reflecting on the previous 9 days of … | READ MORE…
Trubridge Powers Through to a New Constant Weight Freediving Record
Today was the penultimate day of Suunto Vertical Blue. And like the seven other days of competition that came before, it did not disappoint. The official top time for the event’s host William Trubridge came at 11:10 am eastern and just … | READ MORE…
Antero Joki Sets Freediving Records at Suunto Vertical Blue
Antero Joki is not a little man. He does not have what you would call the customary slim physique of a competitive freediver. Nor does he practice any of the orthodoxy that most of the athletes at Suunto Vertical Blue do, … | READ MORE…
Misuzu Hirai is the Fourth Deepest Woman in the World
There are no other women in Japan that can freedive under constant weight deeper than Misuzu Hirai. Which in fact secures her position as the fourth deepest woman in the world (in this discipline) period. Known simply as “Mimi” in … | READ MORE…
Mike Board Sets New Freediving Record for Great Britain
Suunto Vertical Blue has not disappointed anyone on the sheer volume of new national records being set by the elite athletes in attendance. Chief among these has been a new record set by UK diver Mike Board. On day six of … | READ MORE…
Guillaume Néry, World Champion Freediver Dedicates Dive to Loïc Leferme
Back in 1990, French freediver Loïc Leferme founded AIDA with Roland Specker and Claude Chapuis on the coast of Nice. Leferme was the world freediving record holder until he was surpassed by the Austrian “flying fish” Herbert Nitsch. Loic left a significant mark on the sport of freediving and … | READ MORE…
A Big Year for Tomoka Fukuda of Japan
There are so many amazing stories to tell from Suunto Vertical Blue. There are the big splashy world record, champions battling kind of stories, and then there are the more subtle but somehow equally as compelling stories happening among steady … | READ MORE…
Alena Zabloudilová Sets Freediving Record for Czech Republic
Alena Zabloudilová is a naturally gifted freediver. Spectators at Suunto Vertical Blue saw that today as she surfaced with confidence and ease after successfully completing a constant no-fins dive to 62m, making her the third deepest woman in the world in … | READ MORE…
