Freediving
The incredible art of freediving
Northlander Sacha Williamson is the country's first female freedive instructor trainer, and just one of two nationwide. Freediving is exploring underwater with a single breath. Audio
Investigating a potential connection between free-diving and mental health
Free diving instructor Ian Barker wants to investigate the links he's noticed between freediving and improved mental health and joins Jesse to share his observations. Audio
The art of holding your breath
Kathryn Nevatt is has consistently ranked as one of the world's best competitive freedivers for more than 10 years, and has a best breath holding time of 7minutes and 45 seonds. She joins The Weekend… Audio
William Trubridge: NZ's world record holding freediving champ
New Zealand's world record freediver William Trubridge has just completed an underwater dive across the Cook Strait. He speaks to Jim about it. Audio
William Trubridge: the life aquatic
UK-born New Zealander William Trubridge started freediving at the age of eight, and began to train seriously in Italy when he was 23. Two years later he was the first freediver to dive at Dean's Blue… Audio
The man who doesn't breathe
Twenty two minutes - that's how long Stig Severinsen, a four-time world free diving champion, once held his breath underwater. Audio, Gallery
Nights' Sport - Freediving
22 year old Kristine Zipfel will be competing at a freediving competition this weekend. We'll chat to her about her love for this simultaneuosly extreme and serene sport. Audio
Freediving
In his book 'One Breath: Freediving, Death, and the Quest to Shatter Human Limits' (Penguin Viking) Adam Skolnick looks at the incredible demands that competitive freediving places on the human body.
…Freediving record attempt - William Trubridge
World champion New Zealand freediver, William Trubridge, has attempted to set a new world unassisted freedive record. This morning, the 34-year-old attempted the 102m dive at Dean's Blue Hole in the… Audio