Freediving's 2026 Pool Season Ran Twice, in Two Rulebooks
Budapest and Novi Sad staged world championships nine days apart under rival federations. Four AIDA world records fell, then CMAS records fell again, often to the same athletes.
Aug 4, 2026

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Budapest and Novi Sad staged world championships nine days apart under rival federations. Four AIDA world records fell, then CMAS records fell again, often to the same athletes.
Aug 4, 2026

The PROTECT package treats drowning as a systems failure involving childcare, transport, infrastructure, rescue and climate preparation, not a single bad choice.
Jul 23, 2026

Safety divers, counterballast lines and strict medical protocol turned a high risk sport into one of the most closely supervised in the water.
Mar 11, 2025

CWT, CNF, FIM, STA, DYN: a plain guide to how competitive freediving is actually judged, discipline by discipline, and why the letters matter more than the depth alone.
Feb 14, 2024

A small genre with a heavy subject. These are the documentaries and features that actually explain the sport, including the ones that handle its deaths honestly rather than as spectacle.
Aug 11, 2026

Shallow water blackout does not warn its victim first. Here is the physiology behind it, why it strikes trained divers, and why solo breath hold diving is never safe.
Jun 10, 2024
