This review is aimed at recreational and competitive Freedivers (deep diving): After a disappointing run with my previous footpockets (Salvimar 4One – a review to follow), I decided to go for the other current favourite among spearos and freedivers…the Pathos Fireblade.     Before purchasing these footpockets I sent an email to a well known online dive store from whom I purchased my Salvi 4One’s, to ask how the Pathos

This is to be my first ‘product review’ and how it came about was through the fins I’m about to review… I am a professional Freediving Instructor and judge (I do it full time for a living as opposed to being just a weekend instructor) and I currently work with, have dived and trained with some of the top freedivers and Freedive trainers in the world. Based on this and

Since posting the monochrome shot of Linda Paganelli Freediving Ras Mohammed I’ve had countless requests to post the original shot (in colour)…   The shot was 100% un-cropped and even has some hidden details like a Blue Spotted Sting Ray at the bottom left of the shot (a resident of this cave), being able to clearly read the branding on Linda’s suit and fins as well as great detail in

Apparently last year 16000 entries from 130 countries were received for the annual National Geographic Photo Contest… Given these numbers, seeing the quality of images of participants who have already submitted their entries and taking the 15 USD entry fee per submission into account makes even the best of photographers ask themselves: ‘Should I even bother?’ If you can see past the odds of actually winning and find pleasure in

104 Meters is a long way to go (and back!) on a single breath… During the weeks leading up to the 2011 World Freediving Championships, Freedive Dahab had the privilege of assisting four times world record holder Sara Campbell with her final training dives before the event in Kalamata (Greece). Over a period of roughly three weeks Sara did three dives outside the world famous Blue Hole in Dahab with

These last few months have been hectic with running freedive courses, training, video editing and competitions but I’ve had some time the last few days to start  going through the multitude of freedive photography shots I’ve taken the last few months here in Dahab, Egypt. Will be posting mostly freediving shots over the next few days and might mix it with a few ‘surface’ shots of Dahab as well:) Thanks for

Im not a video editing expert by any means and use Premiere Pro to edited clips for our Freediving companys Youtube channel. Recently I ran into an annoying phenomenon where when applying the ‘Shadows and Highlights’ effect to several clips in a video the exported clip flickers (strobes, flashes, call it what you will) uncontrollably. First reaction was to google the solution and it became apparent that this is a

For those of you looking at the images in the Freediving section of this site and wishing you could hold your breath to explore beautiful reefs or simply dive deep… Its easier than you thought:) I am currently in Cape Town, South Africa and will be hosting Freedive courses on a fulltime basis for all those interested through my company Freedive Cape Town – part of Freedive International (for those

I’ve been using Flickr.com now for nearly two years and it was a great source of information as well as inspiration. The support from other members was also invaluable and I’ve learned much from studying other photographers discussions, photos and comments. Last night I launched this site (partially) and as a semi-farewell to Flickr posted a photo I took in Dahab Egypt of Linda Paganelli while we were diving at

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