Freediver, Nicholas Mevoli, was pronounced dead after surfacing from freediving. Freediving is the sport of going under with one tank of oxygen without the assistance of fins. After some 200 feet, Mevoli surfaced and then lost consciousness. Later in the article, it describes freediving as being super dangerous. There is a "blood shift" where your blood squeezes with pressure and blood pools in your lungs. Freediving certainly is a mental sport and challenge. The free diving morality rate is a bit murky because many divers can never surface and be gone forever.
Can we take a step back. Why do people even choose this for fun or a pastime? It's literally so ridiculous. You could die because you choose to swim 200-600 feet into the water? I can barely hold my breath in 12 feet of water. These free divers are seriously physical feats but it should stop. I definitely wouldn't want to die by being crushed by water pressure. I just hope these free divers know the risks of their "sport" and are prepared to die.... literally.
to learn more about free diving, go here http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/18/us/free-diver-death/index.html?hpt=hp_inthenews
Wow. This "sport" (if you even want to call it that) sounds extremely dangerous. Even if he had free-dived before, Mevoli should have had a team or at least 2-3 people tracking him so if something like this happened he could've signaled for help. His death is very tragic.
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