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Originally Posted by glennv
To think of it , i can not remember one single freediving related death of someone in a non-spearfishing non extreme death wish (no-limits) freediving discipline or anyone diving the way freediving is supposed to be done (with a trained safety buddy).
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Loren Maas (son of Terry Maas) died while freediving with a buddy (not spearfishing). They were practicing recreational freediving in clear water with the exact protocols. Loren Maas blacked out on the bottom around 15m/50ft. He was always instructed never to hyperventilate, and by under-breathing people have hypothesized that he had a CO2 blackout on the bottom, but no one knows for sure. His buddy was so scared that his heart was racing, and despite several attempts, he was not able to retrieve Loren from the bottom, even though he saw immediately that the problem had happened.
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