Click the image to play the movie. (accessible through July 17, 2013)
Ok, big thanks to Swedish public televison broadcaster (SVT) who spoiled us with diving films the last week. Here is a link to another cave diving documentary. This film is about an expedition aiming at finding a passage through the Jarbru cave in Norway.
Click the image to view the film. (accessible through July 10, 2013.)
Swedish television just aired a documentary about a cave diving project, “Bjurälven”, in the north of Sweden. Due to extremely high water flows, the cave is only accessible for divers in the winter time. Which in northern Sweden can be quite cold. As you can imagine, this makes exploration of the cave quite difficult. As an example, the team has developed special heaters just to keep the regulators from freezing up.
More information on Expedition Bjurälven can be found here.
On Saturday I went ice diving. It is now two years since I got certified and this time I joined another group taking the PADI ice diver course. I brought my camera and came away with this short video showing how much fun we had despite the cold water. We actually had -1°C!!
Recently I was asked to identify my best dive of 2012. This time it was easy. The seal encounter during my trip to Väderöarna on the Swedish west coast. It was amazing!
Towards the end of a dive at “Trolleskär” my buddies saw the seal of which I, the only one of us carrying a camera, only caught a glimpse of. Camera was off of course…
Hoping that the seal would return I turned on the camera and we lingered in the same spot for a few minutes. Finally we gave up and continued the dive.
However, at the safety stop, one of my buddies is deploying his SMB, with me filming for future reference and feed back, luck strikes for real!!
The very curious seal returned and circled us, nibbling at our fins. What an experience! Although only a couple of seconds on film, it felt much longer in real time. Definitely the best dive of 2012 and a great reminder of the adventures that can be found below the surface!
So, which was your best dive of 2012?
Just a couple of days ago the documentary “Breath”, about world record freediver William Trubridge was released (you can read more about it here http://bit.ly/R7iMS2). However, I wanted to share with you two other short videos featuring the same diver. Above is Mattew Browns beautiful short film “Hectometer”, documenting Trubridge’s 101m world record dive in the constant weight no fins (CNF) category. And here is a link to Nicholas Rossier’s documentary portrait “The Last Breath- The story of William Trubridge“. I hope you enjoy!
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