http://www.freedivecentral.com/blogs Freediving and Freedivers World Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:18:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The British Journal of Sports Medicine has published an interesting article about the "Passive Sinus Flooding" technique used by Patrick Musimu in his world records. The abstract is viewable for free here, to view the full article you need to purchase it first. Some interesting picks from the article: -Patrick can perform the ... http://www.freedivecentral.com/blogs/interesting-article-about-wet-equalization/43/ "When I started Ashes and snow in 1992, I set out to explore the relationship between man and the animals from the inside out" says Gregory Colbert. His exhibition sponsored by the Rolex Institute has been visited by more than 1.5 million persons around the globe. Venice, Tokyo, New York, Los Angeles...mexico ... http://www.freedivecentral.com/blogs/freediving-ashes-and-snow/41/ Willliam Trubridge from Vertical Blue is organising one of the major freediving events of the year. The competition will take place from the 1st to the 11th of april in the BLUE HOLE ( Bahamas ). Seems that the competition is limited to 18 freedivers, among the best in the world says ... http://www.freedivecentral.com/blogs/vertical-blue-2008-competition/39/ Sources inside AIDA have informed us that Apnea Academy Red Sea has requested to be the organizer of the 2008 AIDA Team World Championships. Apnea Academy Red Sea is located in the world renowned diving destination Sharm-El-Sheik and was responsible for successfully organizing the 2007 AIDA Individual World Championships a ... http://www.freedivecentral.com/blogs/aida-2008-team-world-championships-finally/32/ The SubHuman Project website by Ted Ciamillo has some new videos and updates. Ted has also built him self a "testing lagoon" for testing his inventions instead of taking them to the ocean every time. How many freedivers wouldn't mind having that? The much discussed "Lunocet" monofin can be seen ... http://www.freedivecentral.com/blogs/the-lunocet-in-action/31/ Herbert's website has been updated with his latest plans. Herbert is preparing for his most ambitious freediving project so far. He plans to make a no-limits dive to no less than 250m in June 2008. The attempt will be followed by a documentary team. He will also try to break ... http://www.freedivecentral.com/blogs/herbert-nitsch-announces-new-plans/30/ Herbert Nitsch was a guest on a German TV show. You can watch the clip on-line here (only in german). The clip includes good moments such as Herbert being interviewed while holding his breath and coaching the host to an almost 2 minute static via excessive hyperventilation. http://www.freedivecentral.com/blogs/herbert-nitsch-on-german-tv/28/ The Chinese monofin manufacturer BinFins has renewed their website. The site now supports more western languages and has also some freediving specific renewals in their catalog and an improved ordering from. BinFins monofins offer a good alternative to the other popular monofin types used by freedivers currently. In the finswimming world ... http://www.freedivecentral.com/blogs/bin-fins-site-revamped/27/ Alex Sarasitis of the company Trygons, famous to freedivers from designing and implementing the systems used by Herbert Nitsch on his 214m no-limits record, has an interesting project in the works. The Australian marine biologist Lloyd Godson and his Greek partner Carolina Sarasiti plan to cross 500 km of distance ... http://www.freedivecentral.com/blogs/the-life-amphibious-project/25/ The Subhuman project is the brain child of inventor Ted Ciamillo, who plans to cross the Atlantic Ocean on a biomechanical submarine. While interesting in it self, freedivers will be especially interested in the subproject of this adventure called "The Lunocet", which is a type of monofin that mimics the ... http://www.freedivecentral.com/blogs/re-thinking-the-monofin/23/