Chiara | Freedive Instructor on Instagram: "Part 3 | Most dangerous thing you can do before a freedive 🫁👀 Doing this before a freedive can lead to a black out or loss of motor control (these are hypoxic events from the diver having low oxygen levels). ➡️ NEVER hyperventilate before a freedive. 🫁 When we hyperventilate (over breathe), we don’t actually store more oxygen. 😮‍💨 Instead we exhale our stores of carbon dioxide (CO2). Because CO2 is our breath alarm bell, we are reducing the accura

Insider on Instagram: "This shows how a freediver trains to go super deep underwater without breathing for a long time! Freedivers practice holding their breath and swimming deep in the ocean, pushing their bodies to do things most people can’t. It’s like becoming a superhero of the sea, diving down where it’s quiet and dark. Want to know more about how freedivers train to beat these limits? For more content like this, follow @insides910"

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