Make a freediving safety lanyard | FreediveUK videos

Freediving lanyards are an almost essential bit of safety kit for line diving, but with little to no commercially available options, here is how I make my lanyards.
This lanyard should cost you no more than £40 ($65) to make.
Hope you find it useful.
Ian
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Ian Donald is an AIDA master freediving instructor and is the author of the best selling, Amazon 5* book, 'Underwater foraging - Freediving for food'

[@TonyPro79]

Cheers man, you just saved me like $50

[@skiveryfast]

Nice work! One thing I've found out while diving that sort of setup is the loop near the swage at the carabiner is the cable can wedge under the carabiner on your turn around. Then on the way up it pinch's the rope creating friction. Articulation at the carabiner isn't good :)

[@fredericgilbert6005]

Thank you, interesting article. That would be nice to see what is below the black rubber, holding the steel line loop, as this is the only thing that you actually build by yourself :)

[@lorenzorobuschi6331]

where did you buy the anklet/wrist?

[@zdenekk950]

Just out of curiosity, is such a DIY lanyard actually accepted by AIDA regulations for competition?

[@iandonald1523]

Yes, as long as in conforms to safety regs, length etc. It would be checked over by a judge before. Almost all lanyards are home-made as until very recently no-one was making them commercially.