My Freediving Origin Story: How Someone Who Didn’t Like Swimming is Now Heading into the Depths

When I first heard about free diving I thought it was pretty stupid and nearly pointless for me to be interested in it. I had a pretty pathetic breath hold with 10 seconds on my external breath retention and 30 on my internal. The specific type of underwater work I was interested in dealt with the external breath hold and the ability to work with the buoyancy of the human body without the aid of weights. To be specific, I wanted do be able to do underwater modeling, at least some of the time…