Combining Spearfishing and Freediving Into One Sport
29 mar 2007 | Source: DiveSter
Here’s a great article about people who combine the two sports of freediving and spearfishing into one extreme sport. Spearfishing is generally not practiced with scuba gear, because the bubbles from the equipment tend to scare away the fish. Consequently, for spearfishermen, freediving is the most productive way to catch fish. So, naturally, the two sports mix.

The article covers the basics of this sport – how it works, who does it, why the heck someone would even want to do it – and then goes into some detail about records (time: 8 minutes, 58 seconds; depth: Tanya Streeter's 535 feet). There’s also a brief discussion of some of the dangers associated with the sport, like getting entangled in fishing lines or suffering from SWB (shallow water blackout), which is the sudden loss of consciousness within just a few feet of the surface. It’s an interesting article, and an invigorating way to get the blood pumping first thing this morning.  

 


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