hi. Please All, re-post and contribute to this survey initiated by Natalia last year. After a few months of sadness and inactivity, I pulled myself back-in to analyse the data and to write a report, as promised. Sorry for the delay. And I found we only have half of the data for a reliable factor analysis, and we lack approximately 150 respondents. You were many to respond, almost 0.2% of the estimated/supposed freedivers' community. Please, those who intended and postponed to complete the survey. contribute now? It is about your special feelings in a dive.
Many thanks,
Andy Tutrin
was (copy from Mars 14, 2015)
Dear Fellow Freedivers!
We believe our sport is beyond just being a sport or just an outdoor
recreational activity, since it can induce a very special feeling of
harmony. This may be due to a combined influence on the brain of
breath holding and deepwater pressure. Our research is aiming to
better understand this effect, and to learn whether it happens to
virtually every human, or just a few sensible ones. It is tempting to
believe freediving do help to change/improve humans. Please support
the research by answering a detailed anonymous questionnaire about
your freediving experience :
http://goo.gl/LtrGXg
Yours,
Natalia Molchanova