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freediving training

The Proper Freediving Breathe-up – Part 1

Renee Blundon
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Freediving Pemba Island

Emerging: A Freediving Exploration

Renee Blundon
202
Dynamic CO2

Dynamic CO2 Tables

Renee Blundon
259
scuba diving

Mesmerizing Ribbon Eel

Renee Blundon
113
Blacktip Shark

Blacktip Sharks

Renee Blundon
1
294
My First 18 Meter Free-Dive

My First 18 Meter Free-Dive

Renee Blundon
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233
Day octopus, Octopus cyanea . 

Day Octopus – Facts Photographs and Video

Alan Sutton
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The Day octopus, Octopus cyanea is also known as Cyane's octopus, the Big Red octopus, White-spotted octopus or the Grass octopus. As its name suggests is diurnal and unusually for an octopus hunts during t...
Line Diving

Line Diving in Dutch Springs

Seaunseen
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See what it's like to line dive in Dutch Springs lake in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in this short video clip! Cold deep thermoclines made for quite the challenge for freediver, Renee Blundon, “At 15 meters (49 ...
freediving training

The Proper Freediving Breathe-up – Part 2

Renee Blundon
1
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In this video Renee goes into detail about how to do the final breaths of a freediving breathe-up and guides you through the entire process. This is the second video of the Proper Breathe-up for Freediving s...
freediving training

The Proper Freediving Breathe-up – Part 1

Renee Blundon
2
628
In this video Renee goes into detail about how to do the relaxation breathing of a freediving breathe-up and guides you through the entire process. This is the first video of the Proper Breathe-up for Freedi...
Freediving Pemba Island

Emerging: A Freediving Exploration

Renee Blundon
202
See what it's like to Emerging Freediving off the coast of remote Pemba Island, in this creative and exciting underwater film. Renee illustrates her incredible exploration, freediving along Njou Gap's Trigge...
Dynamic CO2

Dynamic CO2 Tables

Renee Blundon
259
Carbon dioxide Dynamic CO2 tables are a great way to train your mind and body to tolerate excess levels of carbon dioxide (CO2). The tables train you to deal with that burning feeling of needing to breathe. As ...
First 3:30 Static Apnea

My First 3:30 Static Apnea

Renee Blundon
1
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My First 3:30 Static Apnea, Doing a free-dive pool exercise on January 13th, 2015 in Dar es Salaam, holding my breath for 3 minutes, 30 seconds - the first of many long breath holds. Listening to one of the mos...

75 Meter Dynamic Swim

Renee Blundon
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Training at Funky's pool in Dar es Salaam, doing a 75 meter dynamic swim in bi-fins. For more photos and videos click here Photo was extracted from video footage of a Canon VIXIA HF G30 HD Camcorder in an Ikel...
50 Meter Free-dive Training

50 Meter Dynamic Swim

Renee Blundon
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Training at Funky's pool in Dar es Salaam, doing a 50 meter dynamic swim in bi-fins. See more photos, videos, etc at: www.reneeblundon.com ...
First 33 Meter Free-Dive

My First 33 Meter Free-Dive

Renee Blundon
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My First 33 Meter Free-Dive, Free-diving through low visibility conditions to 33 meters behind Tumbatu, an island located off the north coast of Zanzibar. This was my first 33 meter free-dive during day three o...
Free Dive to 20 Meters

Free-Dive to 20 Meters

Ben Bhm
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Renee Blundon free-dives effortlessly through low visibility conditions to 20 meters behind Tumbatu, an island located off the north coast of Zanzibar. This was one of her warm-up dives on day three of her SSI ...
flying gurnard

Oriental Flying Gurnard

Renee Blundon
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An oriental flying gurnard (Dactylopterus orientalis) filmed off the coast of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. When excited the fish spreads its "wings" which are semi-transparent but tipped with a beautiful and phosph...
Shape Shifting Octopus

Shape Shifting Octopus

Renee Blundon
65
A white-spotted shape shifting Octopus (Octopus macropus) hovers in place, camouflaged as coral then transforms from spiky scraggly to smooth and formed, and moments later, to metallic silver. Filmed at Manta P...
scuba diving

Mesmerizing Ribbon Eel

Renee Blundon
113
A mesmerizing ribbon eel (Rhinomuraena quaesita) filmed while scuba diving at Kankadya in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The eel's long thin body moves elegantly through the water resembling a ribbon or a mythical Ch...
Lobsters 2 Crawling

Lobsters Crawling About

Renee Blundon
52
Avideo of ornate spiny lobsters 2 (Panulirus ornatus) during a night dive at Remora in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Several were crawling about the reef, coming right up to the camera on several occasions.For more ...
cornetfish bluespotted ray

Cornetfish and Bluespotted Ray

Renee Blundon
59
Video of a cornetfish (Fistularia commersonii) and a bluespotted ribbontail ray (Taeniura lymma) during a night dive at Remora in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Footage shot with a Canon VIXIA HF G30 HD Camcorder ...
Spanish Dancer Nudibranch

Spanish Dancer

Renee Blundon
63
Video of a spanish dancer nudibranch (Hexabranchus sanguineus) during a night dive at Remora in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. For more videos and photographs click here Footage shot with a Canon VIXIA HF G30 HD C...
Cleaner Shrimp

A “Deep” Cleaning

Renee Blundon
85
A video of dive instructor, Brad Crawford, getting a "deep" cleaning by cleaner shrimp in Njao Gap of Pemba Island. Brad approaches a cleaning station on a wall of reef approximately 20 meters deep, full of ...
Blacktip Shark

Blacktip Sharks

Renee Blundon
1
294
Blacktip sharks (Carcharhinus limbatus) are 0ne of the ocean’s most fascinating predators and are found worldwide in tropical waters. With a streamlined shape, terrifying teeth, and forceful fins – the blacktip...
My First 18 Meter Free-Dive

My First 18 Meter Free-Dive

Renee Blundon
2
233
I stare up into the vast blue sky littered with puffy clouds and repeat one word over and over to myself. Relax, relax, Renee, relax. Moments earlier, with guidance from friends, Kjartan and Rob, I succeeded at...
baby cuttlefish

Baby Cuttlefish

Renee Blundon
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A super cute baby cuttlefish, known as a "cuttlet", was spotted during a shore dive in Chole Bay. The hatchling is 6-8 days old and is only as big as an adult cuttle's eye. The spines on the  gill cover are rep...
night diving

The Experience of Night Diving

Renee Blundon
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Diving at night is a surreal, lunar-like experience. I'm surrounded in complete darkness at the bottom of the Indian ocean, with only a beam of light to expose what's hiding and lingering nearby. Fish life, cre...
Leaf Fish

Leaf or Fish?

Renee Blundon
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A short clip of a tiny juvenile Leaf Fish (razor wrasse), found in the shallows of Chole Bay. Notice how it flutters and perfectly mimics a bit of leaf. This makes it easy for predators to miss and fascinating ...

Free-diving in Absence of Underwater Hockey

Renee Blundon
108
Underwater hockey players in Dar es Salaam were disappointed, only initially, to have to forfeit their Sunday pool location for two months due to the IST school vacation break. However, it didn't take long to t...
shrimp

The Unrealized Shrimp

Renee Blundon
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The unrealized beauty and behavior of a shrimp, filmed during a night dive in Dar es Salaam. Fluorescent orange eyes glow in the distance and shuffle deeper into the sand as I get closer. I glance below me, ...
Dwarf Lionfish

Dwarf Lionfish in Kilifi

Renee Blundon
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Lionfish are common to see while diving and snorkeling in East Africa but Dwarf Lionfish (Dendrochirus brachypterus) are a rare and mysterious sight. This one was filmed in a lagoon off the coast of Kilifi, Ken...