Great informative video, great channel full stop. Got all the major points for safety & love the addition of "this doesn't substitute a course". If you find yourself in Indonesia, would be a pleasure to take you round the Komodo National Park, you'd Love it. Keep up the good work. Cheers.
if your looking for decompression times the naval diving and salvage manual pdf/ book has charts toward the end. it is used for surface suplied diving but im sure the time would be about the same. not positive though
***** thank you for answering my question but sorry for bothering you again i have 2 more questions. the first one is as a freediver do you feel like sharks are a threat to you. the second question is about breath hold times. i am a fifteen year old and my average breath hold is 3 minuets but i have held my breath for 4 minuets and 6 seconds. is this good for my age and what is your best breath hold time. i greatly appreciate your effort in answering my questions
Important question: I am only now starting to find out that freedivers can get Decompression Sickness. Do you get headaches after repetitive dives? I had a few 20+ meter dives and then i jogged back to my room. Since then, i have been suffering from two days of non-stop headaches. I'll wait one more day to see if it gets any better and if not i'll go see a dr. I read a bit on the internet and some experienced divers do suffer DCS. Why hasnt anyone brought this to our attention? If this is true, then it should be taught on all freediving courses.
FD HD, I wanted to ask your opinion if your training static tables. My max breath hold is 4m30s, when I calculate to my static tables I get a max of 3.45 to do. Now what do you do if at any point, let's say step 5 (out of 8) you have to get out of the breath hold. Do you just continue, do you stop the practice, or do you start over? Thank you
stevegorel if its and o2 table, you could try and continue where you left off. But if too much time has passed you will fail to complete the round, so start again. For c02 table, i think its best to start again, since in that table, th rest time is the most important, as it has to kept to an absolute minimum
Freediver HD thanks, it is the o2 table that sometimes offer a challenge. Not even towards the end, more in the middle around step 4/5, probably because I'm stressing that I still have a long way to go till the end of the exercise. Mostly a mental game / challenge:)
average. if you are comfortable in water, that should be enough. Long fins will power you through most conditions, so no need be a good swimmer in the traditional sense.
+Awha Chen I have dived a few places... you can check out "Freediving Taiwan - Green Island" which was a video which went kinda varial in Taiwan back in early 2012. That video is the one that really got my channel started. Also another video "You are not forgotten | HD Xtra " is a video about the first freediving death in Taiwan, its filmed at orchid island. See you in the water some time!
***** you can release youre breath in the last meter. However, personally I do not since I am diving in open oceans conditions I dont want to risk taking a mouth full of water from a wave of something once I surface - so i exhale on the surface.
Spencer Boaz because you don’t use PRESSURIZED O2 when you free dive, the pressurized O2 is what kills you at the surface and how people get bends, you inhale regular air at the service and exhale the same air when you return, no difference in pressure
Great video, even now while i'm in a freediving club, i never heard of stretching before diving.
Next time i'll do that.
i get too excited to go in the water i usually forget to stretch . Ill remember to do it next time! Nice Tips Video
You're a brave man diving in South Africa.
Great informative video, great channel full stop. Got all the major points for safety & love the addition of "this doesn't substitute a course".
If you find yourself in Indonesia, would be a pleasure to take you round the Komodo National Park, you'd Love it.
Keep up the good work. Cheers.
hey nice to see you on Sky tv !!! well done
Boudy Joulian so embarassing!! Thanks!
Very nice video!!!
Great guidance. Thanks.
i was wondering 7th rule today when i was freediving with no fins on!
thank you
awesome! hope to see more dives!
***** Awesome, you make the best freediving videos on youtube !!!
How to plan your dive? How to check the bottom? How to check boats traffic? How to check water current? How to check the depth?
Thank you, this was great information.
Thank you for this video!
Can you do a video if your buddy blackouts out and you're not close to land or a boat?
Thanks man i'm 13 years and i freedive i learn a loot thanks
thank you
if your looking for decompression times the naval diving and salvage manual pdf/ book has charts toward the end. it is used for surface suplied diving but im sure the time would be about the same. not positive though
I must be doing something right because I already do every thing that you say here. Good video.
Great tips tq
How did the trip go where you paddled out to the site? Looking forwad to seeing how that one went. Regards EnduranceSwimmer:).
Hi Dean, just wondering if you happened to be in Frankfurt today? I saw a guy who looked just like you but couldnt get myself to ask. Cheers.
Nice man!
Can you help me get in contact with a free diving trainer in my area
Deberías traducir lo q dices para aprender mas y alludas a los q no sabemos inglés gracias
Nice video.
Great tips
sentient thanks, and welcome to the channel.
can u teach me how to freedive
hey dean i am thinking about getting a shark shield, what are your thoughts about it.
***** thank you for answering my question but sorry for bothering you again i have 2 more questions. the first one is as a freediver do you feel like sharks are a threat to you. the second question is about breath hold times. i am a fifteen year old and my average breath hold is 3 minuets but i have held my breath for 4 minuets and 6 seconds. is this good for my age and what is your best breath hold time. i greatly appreciate your effort in answering my questions
***** haha i live in Australia that the main reason i asked about the shark shield. thanks again for spending time on answering my questions
***** thanks
lol lol XD im a scuba diver can hold my breath for less than one min i think, and im 15 too
Important question:
I am only now starting to find out that freedivers can get Decompression Sickness. Do you get headaches after repetitive dives? I had a few 20+ meter dives and then i jogged back to my room. Since then, i have been suffering from two days of non-stop headaches. I'll wait one more day to see if it gets any better and if not i'll go see a dr.
I read a bit on the internet and some experienced divers do suffer DCS. Why hasnt anyone brought this to our attention? If this is true, then it should be taught on all freediving courses.
uluwatu77 could be your sinuses were clogged with mucus from decompression
Why can't I dive with a girl?
FD HD, I wanted to ask your opinion if your training static tables. My max breath hold is 4m30s, when I calculate to my static tables I get a max of 3.45 to do.
Now what do you do if at any point, let's say step 5 (out of 8) you have to get out of the breath hold. Do you just continue, do you stop the practice, or do you start over?
Thank you
stevegorel if its and o2 table, you could try and continue where you left off. But if too much time has passed you will fail to complete the round, so start again. For c02 table, i think its best to start again, since in that table, th rest time is the most important, as it has to kept to an absolute minimum
Freediver HD thanks, it is the o2 table that sometimes offer a challenge. Not even towards the end, more in the middle around step 4/5, probably because I'm stressing that I still have a long way to go till the end of the exercise. Mostly a mental game / challenge:)
question: how do you breath up with a snorkel? You can't really pack or is there a way?
thanks for the response ... I find it easier to equalize to be honest. I get problems after a certain depht. Packing seems to make it easier.
how strong of a swimmer do you have to be
average. if you are comfortable in water, that should be enough. Long fins will power you through most conditions, so no need be a good swimmer in the traditional sense.
I'm happy to here that
Freediver HD agree but is always good to be a good swimmer do to possibility of accidents by nature or stupid people
Do you live in Taiwan or something? Because I saw the 1000 New Taiwan Dollar cash on your desk.
+Awha Chen ya, im living here
Cool! So you've dived like everywhere around Taiwan?
Btw, I'm Awha, a scuba diver recently thinking about starting to freedive.
+Awha Chen I have dived a few places... you can check out "Freediving Taiwan - Green Island" which was a video which went kinda varial in Taiwan back in early 2012. That video is the one that really got my channel started. Also another video "You are not forgotten | HD Xtra " is a video about the first freediving death in Taiwan, its filmed at orchid island. See you in the water some time!
+Freediver HD I think I've heard about the accident you mentioned. I'm living in Orchid Island actually.
***** you can release youre breath in the last meter. However, personally I do not since I am diving in open oceans conditions I dont want to risk taking a mouth full of water from a wave of something once I surface - so i exhale on the surface.
If SCUBA divers get OT (oxygen toxicity) at 197 feet , why don't free divers when they go to 200 plus feet ?
Spencer Boaz Because they dont inhale any O2 after diving down and the O2 gets used up.
Spencer Boaz because you don’t use PRESSURIZED O2 when you free dive, the pressurized O2 is what kills you at the surface and how people get bends, you inhale regular air at the service and exhale the same air when you return, no difference in pressure
8. When you follow another diver from your group under water, be sure he's not peeing into water!
"Stretch" :)
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