freediving
Sign in to saveAlso known as apnea diving, snorkel diving, breath-hold diving, skin diving, free diving
thumb|A freediver on the ocean floor
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39 sectionsContents
- History
- Freediving activities
- Recreational hunting and gathering
- Spearfishing
- Collection of shellfish
- Competitive breath-hold watersports
- Aquathlon
- Competitive spearfishing
- Synchronised swimming
- Underwater hockey
- Underwater football
- Underwater rugby
- Underwater target shooting
- Competitive apnea
- Disciplines
- World records
- CMAS recognized world records
- AIDA recognized world records
- Guinness recognized world records
- Recreational
- Physiology
- Recent human adaptation
- Techniques
- Lung packing
- Recovery breathing
- Training
- Certification
- Safety
- Hazards, consequences and risk
- Competition safety
- Safety divers
- Statistics and notable accidents
- Fiction and documentaries
- Documentaries
- Fiction
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|A freediver on the ocean floor
Freediving, free-diving, free diving, breath-hold diving, or skin diving is a mode of underwater diving that relies on breath-holding (apnea) until resurfacing rather than the use of breathing apparatus such as scuba gear. Besides the limit of breath-hold, immersion in water and exposure to high ambient pressure also have physiological effects that limit the depths and duration possible in freediving.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “freediving” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.