Ep. 860: The Art of Freediving - Alexander Nilsson
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Freediving: Alexander Sets Swedish Record 85m One-Breath Dive – Ice Dives in Sweden, Finding Meaning and Joy Through Breath-Hold Passion. Alexander was in search of something that gave his life meaning, joy and adventure. He found that in freediving. Once he discovered the sport and how much there was to explore, every waking moment became devoted to this newfound passion. He became so good at holding his breath underwater to attempted and got the Swedish freediving record of 85 meters on one breath. Because he calls Sweden home, many of his dives are under the ice.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, folks, welcome to the adventure sports podcast. Today's episode is, it's really cool. We're exploring free diving. This is almost like, you know, what the show got started with was exploring new adventure sports. |
| 0:25.7 | Now we tell a lot of stories through adventure sports, but Alexander is going to take us into the world of free diving and what's so addicting about it. |
| 0:35.0 | It reminded me of climbing the culture around it when researching this |
| 0:38.3 | because folks that do this really get into it. It's kind of like climbing where people just |
| 0:44.8 | sell everything and they do anything they can to climb. It's like a drug almost. And Alexander |
| 0:49.7 | is going to tell us all about how we got into it, what the sensations are like when you're down |
| 0:55.0 | there, literally free diving for either a record. He has a world record at 85 meters. I think that's for, |
| 1:03.0 | I'm not sure exactly what the parameter of that record was, but I know he has some records. |
| 1:07.5 | Maybe that's the Swedish record. But also he's going to talk about some of the practical |
| 1:11.5 | applications of free diving where you can literally just hold your breath a really long amount of time |
| 1:16.3 | and go exploring the bottom of the ocean, whether that's in reefs or just shallower areas where |
| 1:21.4 | you don't have to have any equipment. It's really neat. So I hope you enjoy. I hope you learn as much |
| 1:26.6 | as I did. And you never know. Maybe this is something I don't know if I'm ever going hope you enjoy. I hope you learn as much as I did and you never know. Maybe this |
| 1:29.6 | is something I don't know if I'm ever going to do this. I'm kind of terrified of deep water, |
| 1:33.6 | but it's getting better living at the ocean. But maybe this is in our future. I know Alexander |
| 1:38.5 | never thought it would be in his life. But here we are. Now it's his biggest passion. That's |
| 1:43.0 | kind of how it works. Adventure |
| 1:44.2 | Sports kind of have a way of biting you and never letting go. Let's put it that way. So, |
| 1:49.8 | all right, let's go ahead and jump in. |
| 1:55.9 | All right, folks, we are talking about something new for me. I'm trying to think if the previous hosts ever did this. |
| 2:03.2 | I don't think we've ever talked about this specifically. |
| 2:05.6 | I know it's been mentioned in passing, but free diving with a record holder here, Alexander Nilsson. |
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