Finding a ‘Hidden Talent’ for freediving

[DeeperBlue.com]

How do you take people off the street and find out if they have a hidden talent for Freediving. Emma takes us through her process in preparation for TV program Hidden Talent. | READ MORE......

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[Tall Paul]

Thanks for the alert, folks! This was a great programme, and I urge anyone to watch it on 4oD if you didn't see it on Tuesday.

I also liked Emma's article about it, but was baffled that they didn't let on to the applicants what it was about until so late on - how much testing effort did they waste on people who couldn't swim? Apparently about 60% of the population say they can, but from what I observe at my local pool, of those, only about 10% are happy to swim with their face in the water. And of these, I know from talking to some, many aren't happy with the idea of swimming underwater for any distance. So I suspect freediving as a sport is drawing from a potential pool of 1% of the population at the most.

 

[Simos]

You are probably right there Paul. Having said this it's amazing what one can achieve with determination, even if they don't know how to even swim...

 

[Tall Paul]

Freediving without being able to swim confidently? Seriously scary!

 

[Simos]

Freediving without being able to swim confidently? Seriously scary!

I think it's the opposite actually you only need to be a confident swimmer if you are scared of sinking underwater ;-)

 

[Kars]

I think it's the opposite actually you only need to be a confident swimmer if you are scared of sinking underwater ;-)

Well I think Free Immersion... no need for any swimming technique. :mute

And since the FIM records are close to the CWT I think FIM is quite respectable.
Though a nice monofin technique is still much more labours to learn and much pleasing to the eye.