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Roseau, Dominica – Deep Dominica Freediving Center, based in Soufriere, Dominica, is hosting an international freediving Competition this week. Despite Tropical Storm Bret\u2019s best efforts, the competition has been ongoing and a huge success. More than 20 athletes from ten different countries arrived in Soufriere to train and compete in this AIDA and CMAS-sanctioned competition.<\/p>\n
For those new to freediving, it is a sport where a diver takes a single breath at the surface and then descends along a line. The Soufriere Bay offers the perfect environment, as its underwater terrain plunges to depths of more than 100 meters just a short distance from shore. This allows divers relatively easy access to the freediving platform via a short swim or a 1-minute boat ride.<\/p>\n
This is the first competition that Deep Dominica has hosted in Soufriere and there have been many records broken already! Dominica has one athlete competing this year, Cassia Raina Barnard-Royer. This is her first competition, and she broke Dominica\u2019s Female National Record on Day 1.<\/p>\n
Current New National Records (Day 1 -3)<\/p>\n
\u25cf Emily Padjen USA 85 m (FIM)
\n\u25cf Carol Carrasco Chile 69m (CWT)
\n\u25cf Javiera Pinto Chile 62 m (FIM)
\n\u25cf Javiera Pinto Chile 65 m (CWTB)
\n\u25cf Johanna Loch-Allen Barbados 51 m (CWT)
\n\u25cf Johanna Loch-Allen Barbados 28 m (CNF)
\n\u25cf Johanna Loch-Allen Barbados 40 m (CWTB)
\n\u25cf Ericka Carrera Ecuador 42 m (FIM)
\n\u25cf Ericka Carrera Ecuador 35 m (CNF)
\n\u25cf Matthew Armstrong Barbados 51 m (CWTB)
\n\u25cf Cassia Raina Barnard-Royer Dominica 30 m (CWTB)
\n\u25cf Cassia Raina Barnard-Royer Dominica 30 m (FIM)<\/p>\n
Freedivers compete in several disciplines, including Free Immersion (FIM) where they pull themselves down the line; Constant Weight No Fins (CNF) where they swim down along the line without touching it and without fins;
\nand Constant Weight (CWT and CWTB) where they descend along the line using a monofin or bi fins.<\/p>\n