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Freediving Lanyards: A Powerful Safety Tool for Your Depth Diving

Lanyards are essential safety tools for freediving and are mandatory for depth training and competitions. Unbelievable but true: until 2001, freediving athletes weren’t required to use lanyards in competitions. This meant that the lanyards people used were mostly homemade and not very dependable from a safety standpoint. Once competitions began highlighting their essential safety role, the focus shifted to developing lanyards with improved function and purpose.

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How to Celebrate that Special Someone for Valentine’s Day... Your Dive Buddy

Love is in the air. Can you feel it? Valentine’s Day is the global celebration that signals the need for public displays of affection (PDAs) with our significant other. This usually results in flowers, gifts, candlelit dinners, and a warm embrace. We historically turn our amorous attention to our partners who share every aspect of our lives. But what about that special someone you keep on the side for special occasions? I’m talking about your dive buddy.

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Common Challenges for Beginner Freedivers and How to Overcome Them
Whether your freediving problem is mental or physical, it’s probably much more common than you think. You might not know this, but every freediver has encountered a roadblock if they’ve been freediving long enough - some people have them initially, and others have them somewhere else down the line (no matter how ‘naturally’ freediving came to them at the start).
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AIDA Hydro Dynamic 2024 Sees 2 New National Records
The Hydro Dynamic pool competition is held in the suburbs of Vienna, central to many European countries. BSFZ Südstadt’s pool in Maria Enzersdorf allows nearly 50 athletes to compete in a shallow 31°C (87.8°F) pool for STA and a 50m pool with a constant depth of 2m for DNF, DYN, and DYNB. The world-record-status competition also serves as the Austrian Championship for DYN and DYNB.
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