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One Photograph, Two Images

We are so multilingual here, that this post is in English (by me, Klaus), and in Cantonese, by our Divemaster candidate Cortex. Yesterday I took some pictures on the Savedra house reef of new freedinving ace Cortex. She had a really good time doing flips, rolls, and gliding along the reef without any gear to

Juli 28th, 2015|Tags: , , |

Tauchlehrerausbildung in Savedra

This is – as you can see from the title – a blog post for our friends in Austria, Switzerland, Südtirol and Germany. We'll be back to blogging in American/Australian/English tomorrow! Gestern ging bei uns der „Instructor Development Course“ (IDC), die zweiwöchige Tauchlehrerausbildung zu Ende. Wie immer waren es intensive 2 Wochen, mit Tauchtheorie, Übungen

Juli 26th, 2015|Tags: , |

Freediving, healthy minds and healthy bodies

I'm often asked about the physical and mental benefits of my sport, here I will do my best to describe them. This busy world we're living in is keeping many of us in a loop of negative stress, mental discomfort and general health abandon. With healthy pursuits like freediving we can steer ourselves onto the right

Juli 22nd, 2015|Tags: , , , , |

The New Shark Sanctuary

In times when the outlook for Planet Earth's environment is sometimes bleak, and sometimes beyond bleak, it is heart warming to hear good news from the conservation front: The municipality of Daanbantayan, in the north of Cebu/Philippines, has declared two popular dive spots as shark and ray sanctuaries. I have dived both; Gato island is

Juli 12th, 2015|Tags: , , , , |

Freediving can improve your Scuba Diving

Wouldn't be nice if during a dive you're not the one who hits their gas reserve first, during a strong current you can comfortably maintain yourself, were able to overcome your equalisation problems and continue? These are just a few examples of the benefits experience by scuba divers who take additional training as freedivers. During

Juli 11th, 2015|Tags: , , , , |

Is Freediving for you?

I’m often faced with prospective students who are uncertain if they will be able to Freedive, or if they will even enjoy it. Typically these concerns are rooted in a fundamental misunderstanding of what freedivers do and why. On first sight, holding our breath underwater looks like something awkward and unnatural for humans. Which raises

Juli 7th, 2015|Tags: , , , , |

Freediving Comes to Savedra

As of July 2015 Savedra will be offering Pure Apnea Freediving courses In MoalBoal, Cebu. Making that happen is freediving international athlete and Instructor Trainer Tomaž Jereb. Tomaž grew up diving in Adriatic sea, gaining diving experience by cave diving, freediving and later on as professional commercial diver. Tomas is accredited as a diving instructor with

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