[cdavis]

I've been noticing something interesting in the freediving world. Fairly serious divers are showing up at older and older ages and more and more females are coming in. Part of that is guys like me, who got into freediving in the 60"s when it started getting popular and are now getting up around 60. Part is the spread of freediving generally and the realization that good diving doesn't seem much limited by age. Better technique helps.
A bunch of us are going on a freediving trip to Little Cayman in May, 5 or 6 PFI grads, plus wives,girlfriends, kids, etc. Some of the ladies are PFI grads. A substantial number of us are closer to 60 than 50. Most of the rest aren't exactly young divers. I expect we will be doing 30+ meter dives regularly. This doesn't sound like, "get old and go sit on a bench, because your athletic ability is going to go to zilch"
I think the day of large numbers of 70+ year old codgers doing serious depth and time is just around the corner (80+ anyone?). How about a masters program for older competitive freedivers? Looking forward to it.

Connor