aqua man lungs

[lessthanfour]

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anybody here free dive?

 

[bluefin]

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I dive often but want to get into free diving blue water spear fishing. Looks like lots of fun!

 

[KP '14]

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I'm heavily into spearfishing and freediving. I'll never spearfish on SCUBA. It's such a great experience and very challenging at times. I'd like to take a freediving class to improve form and breath hold, especially since I'm headed to Baja this summer for a father/son bluewater spearfishing trip! I can't wait

 

[BALLISTIC]

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I SCUBA, but that is amazing. I didn't realize that they can get that deep with only fins, and still have bottom time. The only time I have seen freedivers going deeper than ~40 feet was using sleds and then they were going 200+ with no bottom time. Bottom time is what makes diving interesting, so I was never interested in freediving because of the lack of bottom time. My lung capacity isn't that great, but I may have to buy a pair of their fins, and try freediving. Thanks for the video.

 

[lessthanfour]

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a couple of days ago i free dove down to around 60 feet(stretching how deep i can go)down to a nurse shark. that in its self was the coolest thing but i cant imagine being down at 100 for minutes

 

[bluefin]

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I would only spearfish while free diving and want to take classes from Performance Freediving in Miami. They seem to have a nice program set up.

http://www.performancefreediving.com/courses/miami.html

 

[Slapchop]

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Cool video, that guy is a fish.

 

[TheBrand]

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We spearfish here in HI for Tako as they call it but its Octopus to us and have never gone below 40' IOT look around. This guys is nuts and hilarious. I do SCUBA pretty often. Almost 3 times a month sometimes more but haven't seen this guy yet!

 

[jimbowe]

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It's a cool way to hunt. No bubbles to spook the fish and a hell of a challenge sometimes.

If you really want to grow some lungs try playing underwater hockey.

 

[High Binder]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: BALLISTIC</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I SCUBA, but that is amazing. I didn't realize that they can get that deep with only fins, and still have bottom time. </div></div>

There's a woman who free dives to something like 400 ft.

Edit: Here's a dude and 328 feet without aides.

"On his second try of the day yesterday morning (Dec. 13), 30-year-old free diver William Trubridge plunged 100 meters (328 feet) below sea level off an island in the Bahamas, the New Zealand Herald reported. The 100-meter mark has been met before, but with aids."

http://www.ouramazingplanet.com/665-freediving-world-record-broken-101214.html

 

[fish2keel]

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I love to freedive. Started when I lived over on Guam, Siapan, Palau. Everyone there spearfished by freediving so it was only right to do the same.

I haven't been in over a year but used to free dive pretty decently. Deepest I've gone was 65-70 feet could sit there long enough to drop on a fish.

Not sure If I could still do it since I haven't gone in well over a year.

The person that got my started was a local on the island of Palau. He could hold his breathe for well over 6 minutes. He would go down and I wouldn't see him and then you would hear the sound of his gun go off. Then he would come up from the depths with a big fish

 

[TXSTDU]

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That is crazy! I thought the rule of thumb for the avg person was 4 minutes without air would start to cause brain damage? I wonder if there is something unique about these people that allow them to do things like this?

 

[goatsie]

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I used to when I lives in Hawaii, but I was an amateur, there is actually a Device that looks like a PVC elbow that you can use to strengthen your lungs

 

[Nocalphoenix]

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I was just camping last weekend and one of the dads said he was a free diver and could easily go 5 minutes with no strain. Of course we all called bullshit and the dude jumped in the water and with about 15seconds of prep he went down for over 6 minutes. Quite humbling when I lasted under two minutes.

 

[JCONE]

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That is impressive.

 

[wIg SpLiTtEr]

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That's awesome

 

[eviioiive]

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Used to but could only spend about 2 mins at 100. It was pretty funny to see the "bubblers" reactions

 

[Wanderlust]

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Cool, those are wrecks here in Oahu.

 

[S_Lunsford]

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That's phenomenal!