We will be starting the regular Tuesday freediving at Dolime Quarry on June 12th at 5pm.
You are welcome to dive with us if you are taking the Open Water AIDA 2 or 3 Star courses or you join our Open Water Training.
If you are at least AIDA 2 star certified, you can also just come out and dive with the other freedivers.
Freedivers gathering at Morrison Quarry for the 9th annual Freeze Dive.
Ice diving is a bit cold, but a great experience. It is an interesting feeling being under the ice. The light coming through the holes and through the ice itself combined with the bubbles under the ice play with your senses.
Crawling along under the ice and having a ceiling above you while diving is a great way to test how calm you are while diving. You know it is only 5-10 seconds to the nearest hole, but will your rational mind be in charge.
Take a course with us and come out and try ice diving next year.
Thanks to our friends at CASM for organizing this great day.
This is a beautiful video showcasing freediving.
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More information about the people who made the video can be found here: http://www.weightlessemotions.com
Toronto, Friday August 5, 2011
It was an early rise for the Freediving National Championships organizers, crew and athlete this morning as they appeared in today’s Breakfast Television show with Sangita Patell and the LiveEye crew at the Etobicoke Olympium Pool. Under the watchful eye of Freedive Toronto President and AIDA Instructor Doug Sitter, Sangita faced her long-standing fear of water and attempted a breath-hold performance called static apnea, which is a discipline of freediving done on one breath of air, face down in the water without the exertion of movement. This discipline is measure of time spent on a breath-hold (also called sportive apnea). For a first timer, Sangita did really well in her attempt, reaching a personal best of 56 seconds.
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The first major dive trip 2011! What better place to go then Tobermory Ontario. The water was a bit cold (6 to 9 Deg. C) but that didn’t stop anyone from a good time.
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Preliminary results from the DNF. Looking forward to tomorrow.
These are the preliminary results of the Static event.
January 1st 2011 we left snowy Toronto for a week on the Mayan Riviera in Mexico. We stayed at the Akumal Beach Resort, South of Playa Del Carmen and spent most of the time at this waterfront resort located on Akumal Bay. ( Akumal = Place of the Turtles) Lots of opportunities to snorkel/freedive on the reef. Also just a short walk to the North is Half Moon Bay a great place for an afternoon snorkel. Both reefs are a little worse for hurricane wear but Akumal attracts a lot of tourists for the beach and reef tours. We were able to enhoy as a family the snorkelling and at the same time I got to practise some breath hold photography putting my digital point and shoot camera in a small camera drybag from MEC (Mountain Equipment Co-op) here in Toronto.
We made two off resort trips the first was to the ruins at Coba and Tuluum, both were awesome.
Mid day we stopped at two Cenotes (underground caverns) for a refreshing swim and a little free diviving.
Our second trip was to the “Hidden Worlds” nature/adventure park just a short cab ride South of the resort. This featured jungle/cenotes tours, including the “sky cycle”, very novel and interesting. Also a number of unique zip lines through the canopy, and also two that splashed you down in the cenotes. The tour finished off with a guided snorkel into the depths of their cenotes which connects up with others in the extensive underground river system of the area.
We all had a great time, there is tons of good snorkelling, ruins and beach to keep any family busy for a week. The diving/snorkelling opportunities abound in this area and I needed to be careful to keep in mind that this was a family vacation and not a frediving adventure.
Rob
