The Freedive Cafe Podcast

The Freedive Cafe Podcast


Latest Episodes

LOST EPISODE #1 | Davide Carrera
February 03, 2024

Originally produced between 2019 and 2021, the Lost Episodes of The Freedive Cafe were originally released as exclusive content for Patreon subscribers, then lost to time. Recently unearthed in the Sinai desert, I can now deliver them for your listening p

#153 | Kateryna Sadurska | Depth And Strength
January 19, 2024

Kateryna Sadurska is a world record holding freediving athlete from Ukraine. Kate joined me at The Little Blue in Dahab to discuss her amazing 2023, how she trained for those huge dives and how her philosophy of freediving is evolving.She first appeared o

#152 | Frank Pernett | Freediving Science & Physiology
December 18, 2023

Frank Pernett is originally from Colombia. He has been freediving his whole life and been involved in the deep freediving and freediving competition scenes for many years. He is currently based in Sweden where he is working towards his PhD under the watch

#151 | Davide Carrera | Become Free
October 15, 2023

Davide Carrera was born in Turin in Italy and began freediving as a child during his summers spent in Leguria.He has was part of the World Championship winning teams of 1996 and 2001 and established a FIM world record shortly after when he dove to 91m. He

#150 | Alexey Molchanov | Unlimited
September 30, 2023

Alexey Molchanov is a multi-world record holding and world record breaking freediving athlete and arguably the greatest and most consistent freediving athlete of all time.In this episode we discuss:This is the 150th episode of The Freedive Cafe!Alexey was

#149 | Bevin Reynolds | Southern Star
September 06, 2023

Born in Cape Town, South Africa, Bevin Reynolds is a competitive pool freediver with multiple national and African continental records.Despite only coming into the sport 18 months before her first AIDA Indoor World Championships this year, she took home

#148 | Shadi Türk | From War to Water
July 09, 2023

Shadi Trk is a Syrian former fixer and journalist who worked through 10 years of the terrible war in his home country. After reaching his breaking point in this capacity he embarked on a journey of discovery which led him to Ka, Trkiye, and the new adv

#147 | Khaled ELGammal | Deep In Egypt
June 19, 2023

Khaled ELGammal is Egypt's deepest diver and the first to reach the 100m mark. Today we hear about how Khaled left a corporate life working in oil and gas to dedicate himself to training for and teaching freediving.In this episode we discuss:Khaled w

#146 | Gary McGrath | Ascents & Descents
May 06, 2023

Gary McGrath is the deepest ever self-propelled freediver from the UK, claiming a national record of 112m in CWT at 2022's Vertical Blue competition. In this episode we catch up with Gary since last years amazing Vertical Blue performance and examine

#145 | Miguel Lozano | Deep Camp
April 19, 2023

Miguel Lozano is one of the deepest freedivers in the world. He first appeared on episode #67 of The Freedive Cafe podcast!This interview is also available in video format on the Freedive and Thrive Youtube channel:https://youtu.be/XW-Y_zBHixwIn this epi