1st Hello All from Trenton, New Jersey USA

[lylastar]

Firstly I was fascinated by freediving from the first time I viewed an example dive on TV. The sport struck me as super-seductive, very difficult to perform properly, worth all the work, yet always less than a millimeter away from one's own death at any point in a dive prior to resurfacing and taking a new breath of air. The involvement with mortality is completely intrinsic to every part of this activity. And it seems maximally unforgiving of negligence or sloppiness, yet, in no way will complete mastery distance one from the ever-close proximity of death that is not the fault of the practitioner. My gosh how seductive this would become! Imagine how thoroughly torn apart being in love with a freediver would be! If it was me I think it would spit me out into 1000 fragments even if nothing untowards ever took place!

Anyways whether or not I ever try it you can see what attracted me here. I wish everybody a continued totally full life (lol as if you people were not living this way already . Bye4now.

 

[lylastar]

Firstly I was fascinated by freediving from the first time I viewed an example dive on TV. The sport struck me as super-seductive, very difficult to perform properly, worth all the work, yet always less than a millimeter away from one's own death at any point in a dive prior to resurfacing and taking a new breath of air. The involvement with mortality is completely intrinsic to every part of this activity. And it seems maximally unforgiving of negligence or sloppiness, yet, in no way will complete mastery distance one from the ever-close proximity of death that is not the fault of the practitioner. My gosh how seductive this would become! Imagine how thoroughly torn apart being in love with a freediver would be! If it was me I think it would spit me out into 1000 fragments even if nothing untowards ever took place!

Anyways whether or not I ever try it you can see what attracted me here. I wish everybody a continued totally full life (lol as if you people were not living this way already . Bye4now.

 

[lylastar]

I spotted a rather huge error. Staff and members please forgive me! I am a new deeperblue member, today is my first day. My top area of expertise is pharmacology which I have taught myself from age 15-58 (now), and as one would guess, knowing about drugs means knowing all sorts of stuff about chemistry. After readings lots of first hello posts from others I went to the Beginner Freediving forum. This forum is super-fascinating and much of it is very new to me, with many new terms. I feel good that your website is so full of wonderful things to learn. Please forgive me, but in that section I noticed a major error in naming chemical compounds which anyone who has taken 1 semester of chemistry would view as a glaring error. I tell you only in the name of further polishing an already highly sophisticated website. It is:

When you name what is called the "empirical formula" of a molecule (i.e. the number of atoms of each element that makes up any substance having at least two atoms bound, such as oxygen and carbon dioxide), one puts the "number component" beneath, or slightly BELOW, the atom being counted. You on the other hand raise the number ABOVE. For instance, carbon dioxide possesses one carbon bound to two oxygen atoms. If you cannot lower the "2" you would type it as CO2. With HTML there is a way to subscript the two so that it appears slightly below the line containing the "CO" part of its empirical formula. You have SUPERscripted the "2" so that, erroneously, it shows slightly "ABOVE" the "CO". Similarly, oxygen in the air that we feed to our cells is the molecule composed of two oxygen atoms each bound to the other, i.e. O2. This "2" also needs to appear just below, not above, the "O". For a live example google "carbon dioxide wikipedia" and look at the first five words in this entry: 'Carbon dioxide (chemical formula CO2)'

This is what I am talking about. I give it in peace, no arrogance, and in the name of improving, not putting down, your wonderful website!

 

[BatRay]

Welcome to Deeperblue. Freediving is every bit as alluring as you say it is. I recommend a freediving class if you decide to take the plunge. There is, of course, an element of risk, but a class helps to mitigate this. You can learn a lot of great safety techniques as well as overall technique.