Free divers are seriously my favorite crazy people. I really want to do it….but I’m hampered by how much I enjoy breathing.
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yes, free divers, why don’t you just add “carrying a damn spear” as an element of your batshit crazy extreme sport of death? That’s an awesome idea.
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So as I read about Free Divers and watch their freaky youtube videos, I also read about their obsession with the “mammalian diving reflex”. They are big into allowing you to make use of your dormant mammalian diving reflex. I have two thoughts, 1)our bodies are amazing in how many evolutionary left-overs we have kept around just in case and 2)free divers are amazing wackadoos who are like real-life whale otherkin.
This is why I kind of love otherkin, you guys. When otherkin spring forth from the internet it manifests itself as people who legit dress up like mermaids and train their bodies to be more whale like.
See what I mean? You know why sharks don’t eat free divers? Because sharks are intimidated by people who clearly have so few basic survival instincts.
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Free Drivers are clearly lunatics anyway. But like any absurdly dangerous sport, there’s always people who seem to be taking free diving to new levels of Certain Death-ness. My favorite seems to be the sub-sub-sub group of Free Divers who enjoy pestering large marine mammals while they (the divers and the animals) are chilling 50-100 feet deep with no breathing apparatus.