Category: Blog

Freediving Persistence

There are some skills in freediving that are difficult to retrain or stretch people’s patience with themselves. But when we work together and you keep at it, nothing beats the feeling of finally getting it.

Freediving Hawaii

Freediving Waikiki on Oahu, Hawaii.

Oceantroller Freediving's next Freediving Certification Course will be from November 4-5. Experience what it's like to dive deeper and hold your breath longer.

The Shark Lady

The Shark Lady US Postage Stamps and Oceantroller Freediving

Got these really sweet stamps at the US post office today! 🧜‍♀️ The post office clerk asked, who is Eugenie Clark?

Eugenie Clark was known as “The Shark Lady”. She was a famous ichthyologist (aka fish biologist). In addition to being known for her studies on shark behavior, she also helped pioneer scientific scuba diving.

Avatar: The Way of Water

Avatar: The Way of Water is making waves because the majority of the movie was actually filmed underwater! The groundbreaking technology to film underwater captured stars who were acting on breath-holds learned from freediving courses. Oceantroller Freediving had the privilege to assist in training staff onset of the Avatar movie. Freediving training for Hollywood actors isn’t uncommon and has been done for other Hollywood movies such as Mission Impossible, Suicide Squad, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and Reminiscence. Of course, this would lead to an unofficial breath-holding competition amongst the stars. Kate Winslet won by achieving a breath-hold of over 7 minutes in Avatar: The Way of Water, beating out Tom Cruise’s breath-hold of over 6 minutes. But you don’t have to be a movie star to learn to freedive or hold your breath longer. The average person is physiologically capable of holding their breath for 3-4 minutes if they know the right techniques and safety protocols.

Join Oceantroller Freediving to learn how to dive deeper, hold your breath longer and safer through one of our Level 1 Freediving Courses. Click the link to learn more –> https://oceantroller.com/courses/freediving-level-1/

https://variety.com/2022/film/news/kate-winslets-filmed-avatar-2-underwater-breath-hold-record-die-1235459216/

Freediving Secrets: How to Attach a Snorkel

Welcome to Water Tip Wednesday. I’m Jackie Troller with Oceantroller snorkeling and free diving sharing with you a free divers’ secret to attaching a snorkel.

 

You may be wondering should I attach my snorkel to the left or the right side of my mask? Well the answer is neither free divers attach their snorkels to the backside of their mask straps. Think about attaching your snorkel to the side of the strap when your head goes in, the snorkel tube tends to follow, becoming parallel to the surface of the water and allowing water to come in. Attaching your snorkel to the backside of your mask strap keeps your snorkel tube in more of a perpendicular position to the water surface as you look at the fish. Just use a simple hair tie. Place it over the snorkel tube, feed it through the back side of the mask strap, give it a twist and put the loop back over the tube, pull it down a little bit to get it repositioned. You’ll see that the snorkel on this particular mask strap has a tendency to go to one side or the other scuba divers. They prefer having their snorkel tube on the left side because the regulator set up is on the right for free diving I guess it doesn’t really matter. It’s just up to you. Another advantage of positioning the snorkel on the back of your mask. Is free divers spit out their snorkel before they dive. So having your snorkel at the backside of your mask allows it to be pulled away towards the back of your head instead of hitting you on the side of the face for the duration of your dive.

 

Well, that’s your water tip for today. See you guys next time. Never dive alone. 

 

Oceantroller out.