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David Blaine holds breath for 17 minutes
BBC reports:
MagicianDavid Blaine has set a world record by holding his breath for 17 minutes andfour seconds on Oprah Winfrey's US TV show in...
William Winram dispels some myths about sharks
North American andContinental record holder freediver William Winram, (famous for his swimthrough the Blue Hole in Dahab wearing only his wetsuit and a dive...
Liquification 2008 – Wrap Up
Grand Cayman - Yesterday Liquification 2008 came to a close with Matt Charlton of Canada and Jessica Wilson of the United States claiming...
Mandy-Rae to reveal all to Oprah
6 times Freedive WorldRecord holder Freediver Mandy-Rae Cruickshank is to depart from Grand Cayman soon without a new world record title. Sheexplains of a...
Mandy-Rae gears up for her world record attempt
Previous newspaper articles have said that Mandy-Rae Cruickshank, holder of 6 world records in the sport offreediving had set her goal to 92 metres,...
Tom Sietas announces new world record attempt
Deeperblue.net has just heard that the freediving athlete, Tom Sietas from Germany, has announced a new World Record attempt in the discipline of Static...
More National Freediving Records for Japan
Japan cheers on their competitive freediver Junko Kitahama as she pulled herself down to 57 metres on a Free Immersion Dive yesterday, in the...
Liquification in Cayman kicks off
TheLiquification Freediving competition organised by Performance FreedivingInternational kicked off yesterday. The results page can be found at thislink.
National Recordholder Junko Kitahama (JPN) succesfully...
Mandy-Rae sets her tag at 91 metres
Mandy-Rae Cruickshank, holder of 12 Canadian National Records and 6 World Records in the sport of freediving, has announced her attempt to break the...
New US National Freediving Record
Grant Graves reports:
TheUnited States Apnea Association (USAA) is pleased to announce that Robert King,a USAA member, set a new men’s national record in...
Liquification update from Cayman
News fromCayman and the PFI team report a slow start with team members suffering fromcolds, flu and sore muscles. Training in the last ten...
The Corals of Bikini survive all odds
From http://www.news.scubatravel.co.uk:
Over 50 years after thelast atomic blast shook the Pacific atoll of Bikini,a team of scientists have discovered that the corals are flourishing...
Performance Freediving International's 2008 event "LIQUIFICATION"
Starting today, April 21st - 27th, the Cayman Islands will host freedivers from the US, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Cayman Islands, Japan, South Africa, UK...
Almost Extinct Turtle Discovered
"Swinhoe's soft-shell turtle" was thought to be extinct in nature. Researchers from the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo found one of the rarefreshwater turtles recently in...