The great feeling of freediving

We, at Castaway divers, don’t limit ourselves to scuba diving only. Our freediving instructor Loic, from France, has told us two beautiful stories of freediving in Castaway that had happened recently. That’s what he said: “The first story is with Sissi from china.  She’d never swum before.  However, after a course which made her understand her body and the sea, Sissi passed the 2 minute static and went down to 12 metres of free immersion;... Read More

Freediving

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New static breath hold record!

Since Loic, our free diving instructor has been here this season we’ve all taken the opportunity to have some free diving tuition. This has included, stretching, breathing exercises and static breath holding, as well as free immersion, fin kicking technique and equalisation methods. Free diving and scuba diving are not always compatible, we’re always careful not to free dive after scuba diving. But if we have a day off we’re finding... Read More