Shark Freediving

The Shark Freediving Calendar is once again updated. If you’re looking for a freediving competition for the month August then take a look in the calendar for full details or see the small summary below.

Competitions

3 oct – Germany – Pool
9/10 oct – Sweden – Pool/Depth
11 oct – Cyprus – Depth
11 oct – Japan – Depth
18 oct – Norway – Pool
24 oct – Czech Republik – Pool
25 oct – Belgium – Pool

Record Attempts

None

If you have other events to add, please leave them in the comments!

The Shark Freediving Calendar is once again updated. If you’re looking for a freediving competition for the month August then take a look in the calendar for full details or see the small summary below.

Of course the biggest event this month is the pool world championships in Denmark (17-22 aug), but there could be some surprise results from a few other competitions as well!

Competitions

30 July – 2 aug – Hawaii – Pool/Depth
1/2 aug – Canada – Depth
10/16 aug – Sweden – Depth/Pool
10 aug – Bonaire – Pool
15/16 aug – Australia – Pool
15 aug – Canada – Depth
17-22 aug – Denmark – Pool
23-26 aug – Bonaire – Pool/Dept

Record Attempts

None

If you have other events to add, please leave them in the comments!

For anybody that lives in or near Poland, there is good news if they want to attend a depth competition in that region. I received the announcement below, and I must say that already based on the competition name I want to go. Pretty nice competition website by the way!

Between 27th and 31st of July, 2009 crystal clear waters of Lake Hancza will be a place for “Crystal Clear Water Competition”.

This will be the first competition in polish lakes that’s going to be included in the official AIDA ranking.

The event will feature 3 major Freediving disciplines:

• Constant weight
• Free immersion
• Unassisted

The competition will take five days with a break after the second day (total of 4 diving days). Each competition day the competitor will have the option to choose the discipline they dive. The diver that’s going to collect the deepest tag will be a winner of each discipline. Results will be collected per discipline and will not be summarized. Due to the limits of the lake, maximum depth is set to 100 m.

There will be a counter weight system responsible for the safety of freedivers.

More info about this competition here.

The Shark Freediving Calendar is once again updated. If you’re looking for a freediving competition for the month May then take a look in the calendar for full details or see the small summary below.

Competitions

29 June/5 July – Greece – Depth
3-5 July – Croatia – Depth
8-11 July – UK – Pool
11-12 July – New Zealand – Pool
11 July – Canada – Depth
12 July – Greece – Depth
18-19 July – UK – Depth
18 July – Venezuela – Pool
25 July – Switzerland – Depth
25-26 July – USA – Depth (by FII)
27-31 July – Poland – Depth
30 July – 2 aug – Hawaii – Pool/Depth

Record Attempts

None

If you have other events to add, please leave them in the comments!

The Shark Freediving Calendar is once again updated. If you’re looking for a freediving competition for the month June then take a look in the calendar for full details or see the small summary below.

Competitions

13/14 June – Denmark – Pool
13  June – Switzerland – Pool
13 June – Canada – Depth
26/27 June – Czech Republic – Pool
29 June/5 July – Greece – Depth

Record Attempts

8 June – AIDA Static WR – Stephane Mifsud – France
26/27 June – Unofficial 24 hour dynamic freediving relay – Sandi Bitenc

If you have other events to add, please leave them in the comments!

The Shark Freediving Calendar is once again updated. If you’re looking for a freediving competition for the month May then take a look in the calendar for full details or see the small summary below.

Competitions

1-3 May – Canada – Pool
1 May – Cyprus – Pool
2 May – Denmark – Pool
9/10 May – Sweden – Pool
16/17 May – New Zealand – Pool
21-27 May – Cayman – Depth & Pool
23/24 May – Germany – Depth
25-30 May – Egypt – Depth
30 May – Ukraine – Pool
31 May – Great Britain – Pool

Record Attempts

22-31 May – Martin Stepanek – Egypt – Depth

Herbert Nitsch his attempts seem to have vanished from the calender. I will ask around and give an update if I know more.

If I missed any competitions, attempts or events then please let me know. Also national record attempts, club competitions or any other freediving related event is welcome. Just mail me at jorg.jansen at gmail.com.

The Shark Freediving Calendar is once again updated. If you’re looking for a freediving competition for the month September then take a look in the calendar or below.

- Sept 1; Bela Crvka, Serbia – Pool competition in Static
- Sept 2; Stockholm, Sweden – Depth competition for beginners. More info here.
- Sept 5/12; Dahab, Egypt – Depth comp, invitation only
- Sept 13/14; Brazil – Depth comp with static.
- Sept 21/23;  Wellington, New Zealand – Pool Comp all disciplines
- Sept 22; Wiesbaden, Germany – Famous and always good organized pool comp. Sharkbait will be there!
- Sept 28/30; Vancouver, Canada – Pool and depth competition
- Sept 29/30; Copenhagen, Denmark – Pool comp

Update: Forgot to include the New Zealand comp. And apparently the Greece comp has been rescheduled to one week later.

The official AIDA calendar was once again updated with some competitions, so I added them to the Shark Freediving Calendar. By now most of you know what the advantages of this calendar are. But if you have forgotten, here is once again the explanation that I also put down at the bottom of the Calendar page.

What’s this about?
Another calendar! Why don’t just watch directly the AIDA Calendar? Well, because it’s a very simple static page with no options to sort, export or view it in your regular calendar. With our Shark-Freediving.com calendar you can! The calendar is made with the fantastic Google Calendar application and uses the standard for all online calendars, iCal. This means you can use a xml or iCal feed in your own calendar to watch all freediving related events.

If you don’t have a calendar or you still use some software witch doesn’t have the option to use iCal calendars then you can also register yourself with Google Calendar and use their free version. Just click the ’subscribe to calendar’ link below the actual calendar.

What events are in the calendar?
In this calendar you find everything you can also find on the AIDA website on the calendar page, but this time it’s in a real calendar format. So basically you’ll find all the official AIDA competitions and announced record attempts. We’re are also planning to put the non competitive but still worldwide interesting events in here. If you miss something, just send us an email.

The Public Calendar Feeds:

Already many people make use of this calendar, around 250 people have added it to their own calendar or are viewing it online here each day! So, if you have any freediving event, (national) record attempt, competition, meet & greet, I don’t know what else, and you want to put it in this calendar, just send me the info, or a press release about the event with the date mentioned, and I’ll put it in the Calendar.

Visit the Calendar through this link.

Short note about some projects. The calendar is fully updated again! Take a look here or look more below in the sidebar for a list of upcoming freediving events. I’m looking into some ways into increasing usability and viewing possibilities, but I’ll get back on that later.

From now on there is also a Google Freediving project page where I combine my freediving and web technology interests. You can take a look here or click in the sidebar on the link under projects. On the page you find the latest freediving news, blog, books and video’s. Pretty convenient I would say… Of course the appropriate and worth mentioning results will still be posted on this blog.

I’m working on some other stuff, but that will be posted later.

Wow, it’s been a while since I updated the freediving calendar for the last time. It just took me almost two hours to fill it up correctly again. Not many competitions yet in 2007, but it’s still early in the year and most competition are announced by AIDA 2-3 months beforehand. Don’t forget you can go this site to watch the calendar and read further instructions about how to use it: shark-freediving.com/calendar/