Freediving..

[shropshire 0]

Hi,

I've just watched a program with Tanya Streeter, freediving in the Caribean.... She can hold her breath for 6 minutes!! At the end of the prog', she was diving in the Great Blue hole (off Belieze), being pulled along by an underwater scooter - some fantastic shots.

(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[Viking 0]

I don't even wanna think about what kind of geothermal event created that big hole in the ground!!

I swear you must have footprints on the back of your helmet - chicagoskydiver
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[shropshire 0]

Apparently (via google)... they were created during an ice age, when sea levels were around 400' lower... The Limestone was then etched by acid rain ( not a 20th century phenomina)...

(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[Viking 0]

oh............ how deep is it?

I swear you must have footprints on the back of your helmet - chicagoskydiver
My God has a bigger dick than your god -George Carlin

[shropshire 0]

145meters (480feet)

(This is all new to me but....) it seems like the coast around Belieze is riddles with them.... impressive - make me want to start diving.....


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(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[shermanator 4]

you sure its not caused by those creatures in the movie 'tremors' ?

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[LisaM 0]

We dove blue hole two summers ago... it was amazing! We went down to 130 feet... couldn't stay down long...but was it DARK and COLD!

~ Lisa
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[shropshire 0]

I'm dead jealous... was it too dark to take photos?

(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[LisaM 0]

We didn't have a flash on our camera so yes... but plenty of peple did take pictures. There were stalagtites down there.. it was amazing. Then there were the bullhead sharks!

~ Lisa
~ Do you Rigminder?

[shropshire 0]

<> See, there's always a gotcha

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Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[LisaM 0]

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<> See, there's always a gotcha

No way! It was the coolest! They were just kinda swimming around. When we were still down in the dark you could see one every now and then. Then when we got up towards the surface there were about a dozen of them... sooo gorgeous! Just swimming around.....

~ Lisa
~ Do you Rigminder?

[shropshire 0]

Thanks.

Being a non-diver, sharks hold an irational fear for me.. daft, I know.

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(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[LisaM 0]

Naw... probably perfectly normal!

~ Lisa
~ Do you Rigminder?

[homer 0]

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I've just watched a program with Tanya Streeter, freediving in the Caribean.... She can hold her breath for 6 minutes!!

If this is the same world class free dive girl I'm thinking of she drowned a while back going for a new dive record.

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[cesslon 0]

I love freediving

freediving is to scuba what BASE is to sky diving
it's more exciteing, more dangerous and generally doesn't last as long
and greater sense of freedom
I have never BASE'd but by the above statement I mean, with BASE you choose when to jump as the cliff isn't flying around and when you jump it's into dead air.
with free diving you don't have a tonn of gear and you don't realise just how restricted scuba gear is till ya at 60 feet without it