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You may haven't heard of the word "free-diving" before, but if you're reading this blog, it's most likely that you have freedived sometime in your life even without knowing it's freediving. Free-diving, skin-diving, or apnea (sport) are just names of the action that you hold your breath underwater. With your breath held, you can do various things underwater, from submarine sightseeing, spear fishing, underwater photography, to getting involved into submarine life to be a part of it (not just watching it), or underwater dance (like a mermaid), underwater sports (rugby, hockey), or even just to enjoy the serenity like meditation.
Getting into the blue, you'll get a chance to live the submarine life, to enjoy the submarine world as a part of it. The schools of fish whirling around and around, the spiny sea urchins and the wavy moray eels hiding beneath the colorful corals,... all of those wonderful things just show up right in front of your (nacked) eyes when you dive. And if lucky, you may also see the old shipwrecks, enjoy the feeling of facing cold-blooded sharks, or playing with the lovely dolphins, etc. But different from scuba diving, in a freedive you are one of the members in that submarine life with no annoying bubbles which disturb the local inhabitants down there.

Can you imagine how your limbs will be shaking (for fear or for happiness) when you dive next to the giants like a whale or a whale shark?!!!

More than recreation, freediving gives you the serenity of meditation, the freedom of weightlessness, and the infinite joy of introspection.
With advanced skills, freediving turns out to be an art! Skillful freedivers may perform underwater dance, underwater show, mermaid show, and so on.
And of course, they do perform in movie.

All of the above stuff is the "cool" part of freediving. But if you are an active person, you may like to touch the "hot" part of it, competitive apnea. Apnea is an extreme sport including many disciplines from static (timed breath holding), dynamic (breath-hold swimming for distance), to depth disciplines (constant weight, free immersion, no limit) in which athletes follow a guide line to dive downto the great depths (current world record of no-limit apnea is 214m depth set on 2007.)

All in all, free-diving gives you the passional freedoms: free of charge, free of messy equipments, free of noisy bubbles, free of heavy weight, free of breath, and free of stress.
Let's go freediving!
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