{"id":2321,"date":"2019-02-03T15:13:53","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T15:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/?page_id=2321"},"modified":"2019-02-22T23:11:26","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T23:11:26","slug":"notes-about-freediving","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/notes-about-freediving\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes about freediving"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Interested? Never freedive alone. Know your limits. Learn with a qualified instructor&#8212;you&#8217;ll learn about safety and will quickly make an incredible amount of progress. In the&nbsp;Leeward Antilles we highly recommend <a href=\"https:\/\/deepseabonaire.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Carlos Coste in Bonaire (opens in a new tab)\">Carlos Coste in Bonaire<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oceanquestcuracao.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Walid Boudhiaf in Cura\u00e7ao (opens in a new tab)\">Walid Boudhiaf in Cura\u00e7ao<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don&#8217;t worry, Donna. We want to improve our technique and increase our breath holding capacity to be comfortable at 30m, but don&#8217;t intend to go much deeper than that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Three videos that have impressed me<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bdBuDg7mrT8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uQITWbAaDx0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below is Walid, our instructor, going for his personal record of 112m. That&#8217;s meters. In feet, it&#8217;s 367. Things to note:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>While watching it, remember to relax! Holding your breath is optional for you.<\/li><li>Walid initiates the freefall at around 30m.<\/li><li>The ascent is the most demanding part, and it starts after you&#8217;ve held your breath for quite a long time already.<\/li><li>On the way up there&#8217;s a bunch of safety divers waiting for Walid in apnea as if it was a walk in the park&#8230; at 30m!<\/li><li>Safety divers cannot be scuba divers&#8212;because they are subject to decompression sickness, they can&#8217;t bring the freediver to the surface fast enough in case of a blackout.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cZICVKlkie4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The world record in that discipline is 130m. The deepest freedive in the no-limits category, where you go down with the aid of a weighted sled and come up pulled by an inflatable device, is 214m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interested? Never freedive alone. Know your limits. Learn with a qualified instructor&#8212;you&#8217;ll learn about safety and will quickly make an incredible amount of progress. In the&nbsp;Leeward Antilles we highly recommend Carlos Coste in Bonaire and Walid Boudhiaf in Cura\u00e7ao. Don&#8217;t worry, Donna. We want to improve our technique and increase our breath holding capacity to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/notes-about-freediving\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Notes about freediving&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2321","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P7GCAo-Br","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2321"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2466,"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2321\/revisions\/2466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}