The world's largest freediving event
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One chance is all a freediver gets, one chance to get it perfect. Many freedivers travel from the other side of the world spending all their savings and using all their holiday to take part in the International freediving event in Cyprus "Freeology Open Classic". After a year of hard training it all comes down to one dive. The freedivers are given their time and within a ten second window they have to freedive down as deep as they can. And then successfully make it back to the surface.
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Every competitor wears the Suunto Stinger, and the unit is immediately checked on the surface after the dive to record the depth the freedivers have attained. There is no room for effort or luck as every single 0.5 m counts.
During the freedivers warm up, which lasts 45 minutes, the surface interval timer on the Suunto Stinger is perfect to allow the right amount of time between dives and before the official dive.
Another discipline within the competition is static apnea; this is pure breath hold on the surface of the swimming pool. Again the Suunto Stinger is used by the freediver to keep a check on their time while holding their breath. Also the stop watch function is used by the AIDA judges to record every freedivers breath hold time. Aging there is no room for guesswork, every single second counts and there is no second chance.
The Suunto Stingers have never let us down we are very pleased to work with Suunto and thank them for supporting the sport we love.
Author Howard Jones, Freediver magazine, Competition Organiser
Photo of Martin Stepanek - mens winner in Cyprus 2003
Photo taken by Dan Burton
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