SafetyDecompression Sickness in Freediving: Taravana Explained
Freedivers can get decompression sickness. How repeated dives to depth with short rests cause taravana, the symptoms to know and surface intervals that help.
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Shallow water blackout, samba, the buddy system, recovery breathing, lung squeeze and flying after diving. The non-negotiables.
SafetySafetyFreediving and Flying: How Long Should You Wait?
There's no single rule for freediving and flying like scuba's guidelines. The risks, how advice differs between sources and the conservative wait we suggest.
SafetyFreediving Lanyards: When to Use One and How to Set It Up
A freediving lanyard clips you to the line so your safety team can bring you up if you black out. Wrist vs ankle, line setup and when to skip one.
SafetyFreediving Safety: 10 Rules That Actually Keep You Alive
The freediving safety rules every new diver should learn, from never diving alone to one up, one down, and why each habit still matters on easy, shallow dives.
SafetyHyperventilation Before Freediving: Why It's So Dangerous
Hyperventilation before freediving lowers CO2 but adds almost no oxygen, so blackout comes with less warning. What happens and how to breathe up safely.
SafetyLung Squeeze in Freediving: Symptoms, Causes and Recovery
Lung squeeze is a pressure injury to the lungs or airways at depth. The symptoms, usual causes, what to do straight away and why you need a doctor's check.
SafetyRecovery Breathing: The First 30 Seconds After Every Dive
Recovery breathing (hook breathing) gets oxygen to your brain in the seconds after a dive, when blackout risk peaks. Technique, surface protocol and drills.
SafetySamba in Freediving: Loss of Motor Control Explained
Samba in freediving means loss of motor control after a hard dive: shaking, a blank stare, no OK sign. How to spot it, respond as a buddy and prevent it.
SafetyShallow Water Blackout: What It Is and How to Prevent It
Shallow water blackout is fainting from low oxygen near the surface. Why it comes without warning, how hyperventilation feeds it and how to prevent it.
SafetyThe Freediving Buddy System: How to Be a Good Safety
What a good freediving buddy does: one up, one down, watching every second, meeting the diver on the ascent and staying close at the surface afterwards.