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a freediver explores the deep blue sea. ant. does form a shaft that brings the case to the ocean to the table. how long can you hold your breath. well on average most people only manage one or 2 minutes but with the right training you can increase that quite a bit the current record is over 24 minutes held by a free diver now they explore the oceans without using oxygen tanks and fun but to chart did didn't start free diving until she was 37 years old but she still among the world's best while we met up with her to find out more. i'm a fan but isha the deep blue sea isn't in chanted world where she feels absolutely free. she's of freedom i thought that means she died without oxygen tanks and she's

one of the world's best. what's unique about free diving is that you're completely on your own of the it's just you against nature and yourself. on things that maybe even in the ultimate sense in the final consequence a consequence. free divers have to master a special breathing technique which allows them to dive deep on a single breath. and the cop on the at your body realizes oh you're under water coming at you you can't breathe so you have to conserve oxygen if you're going to survive the 1st your pulse drops your heart rate slows down heads and your metabolism slows radically and less energy is used for any and everything is geared

towards saving oxygen and keeping you alive as long as possible. hopefully before diving and a concentrates on storing up as much oxygen in her lungs as possible. some freezer i was push themselves beyond their limit and risk physical harm freediving is an extreme sport and not to be taken lightly. locals music our greatest risk is losing consciousness when you hold your breath you can always lose consciousness as well and then if you're in the water and that happens and nobody is there to pull you out and also you drown so we keep an eye on each other. and i was already an experienced diver when she took a course in free diving in 2007 within just 6 months she'd set 3 german records the same year she brought home grown loose from the world championships in egypt

and. back home in berlin she trains 3 or 4 times a week many free divers take up yoga and various meditation techniques but anna prefers crosstrees a grueling full body training program that pushes her to her limits. on up north although i'm a free diver so i've only got one breath and i need muscle condition that can work without using a lot of oxygen and i'm making very good progress with cross that from course so. their approach to life is to take the i'm beaten path she briefly tried her neoprene diving suit for a laptop. in may 2019 and a published her 1st book it's an athlete's biography but also much more besides.

i'm actually quite the opposite of a freediver and i have one line that is too small of the moving and i'm not an especially good swimmer i've got so many things that should stop me but i'm still quite a success at it. i've been one of the world's best for over 10 years now that's a story that should encourage everyone to approach life with an open mind. in cyprus now she has to concentrate. the with the show through to the best is the plan for me is free diving with them. i think i dived 81 meters deep with one in 2013 who i'd like to try again and see if i can make it down just one more metre that would be really really great.

with a she succeeds or not and fun but it sure has found her own happiness in the ocean depths. most people prefer to go to the beach for sunshine blue skies and a pleasant temperatures but others love the turbulence see after a storm when the tide is why old for the british official for rachel tell apart it can't get stormy enough and thanks to her photos even those at home can enjoy the drama of the ocean. when the sea churns in wales when the tides come in and gales with the water that's when british way photographer rachel tal afar springs into action. i'm just going to watch the

way stressed i'm a shill. on the beaches of england south east coast she takes peck tackle photos of the sea as if she were out in the midst of it. but she says out there she get seasick. a lot of people often say to me oh you must been in a boat you look as if you're at sea and that is the look i want to get you and i remember how it feels to be right houses say with no land in sight and just waves around you and i think that's what i'm trying to illustrate in a lot of my photographs but from the shore. photographing waves means dealing with a constantly changing subject. that if you can pay will see that if you get one pretty big boy the next to me to be after it is at this beach and many beaches will

force a big big. setting there people will see the 1st big boy take a picture and then they're looking at the camera there's 2 more coming. rachael tonopah drew international attention with her photo series sirens she took the pictures during especially intense storms involving winds up to 150 kilometers per hour and waves as high as 15 meters it was the 8th of february 26th which was storm and i spent the day here exactly where we are now and it was 6 hours of utterly exhausting actually pretty and photographer. she gave every wave she photographed for the series a name taken from methodology. limits the side in making the giant waves seem like raging gaunts or demons. if you freeze the

sea at a really fast shutter speed a 1000th of a 2nd or thereabouts there are amazing shapes and this is an example this one is called loki the norse trickster god looks like he's having a good laugh. if she's out during a real storm she lives right on the sand to achieve greater stability then she can use her telephoto zoom lens to capture waves of 200 meters away. you have to adopt really uncomfortable poses like this lying on a shingle for a long time getting as low down as possible makes the razor bigger because the horizon goes down in the wave stands up above the horizon and so really makes all the difference in the world. rachel tyler bartz black and white photos have won her many awards but she doesn't always dispense with color. i just thought it was

so simple it was just about light catching that wave in that moment i didn't want the distraction of color color for this one because the green in that way if i just thought it was so lovely and i didn't find this wave scary it was more beautiful and that's probably because it's actually moving across the frame so it's not threatening me in any way. the photographer has always loved to seize mysterious and an earthly qualities but she also senses that now it poses an entirely new kind of menace i spent a lifetime looking at the sea and that this coast i'm not a scientist but it. failed to mate at the end of a severe storms on this case has cried which from a photographic perspective based quite exciting thought is obviously also has other ramifications to tell more. that when the sea becomes smooth and trunk

and time it's time for rachel towing the party to head home again. seaweed on the beach is seen as a nuisance by most people especially if you're on vacation but for dutch chef edwin vega it serves as colon area gold in fact he collects it for his main dishes now seaweed in asian cuisine has long been commonplace and now it's also popular in european kitchens thanks to its nutritional value and its diversity and once you see how uses it for his were made creations well you might become inspired to. the taste of the sea fleet adorned with mussels edwin vink is cuisine is based on local maritime ingredients. a life without the sea

a large. bowl of the projects is one picks by thinking. today think and his friend john cranston visiting the north sea coast in the netherlands. drink is the only person in this region who holds an official permit to harvest the algae. because some polls everything immediately. this is japanese. barrier see we were dry and i want is the right even more intense with even more. basic like like the sikh seaside so this is really this is not my favorite but this is really creative great if we think it puts this creative skills to good use that is restaurant the crime of the gun located right near the shore so we started it with all the different kinds of seaweed. and this is the rolls royce between august this is.

when you make like something like oral or something from les there's like white. we don't use ruffles in the kitchen but this is my brussels. to the vinca prepares is cooked with salt water from the sea filtered tinfoil the course to kill off any bacteria. to see what happens so. the water reduced the salt in the water it's on the potato and then you have this salty potato. so simple. the menu features mostly fish and shellfish and think you use a c.v. consider chefs would use vegetables. is the sea the sea water so people come here to taste the sea to experience the sea when you walk around here you smell the sea i want to have this on your plate. muscles are a favorite item on the menu because it's

a bit 20 different varieties the pending seems. willful thing about it is they all have their own taste one of them a sweet one of them has been a bit sour so i would have all those different kinds of taste that we have that is bringing another extra dimension on the shelf. or like on the shelf see weights but you have to taste them all before you know what which one are the best and then you have to test them out so if the company have to make them you have to make over they have to eat it raw if you want so it was a long time. thinking has finally developed the sweet consulting desserts. roast seaweed and combines it with big chocolate mousse red bean paste and. this is reminds you of the wrong north sea coast this is. just one block from your

plant george smith's japanese and. korean born that people come in here one day leave the table left with it you don't have to be tired and we try to do to make it as clear as possible and that's healthy as possible so we don't use sure what our dishes also like japanese you know you're sure we was honey we have our own bees in the. so i would try to make our kitchen as light as possible and as healthy as possible because it's very important. think it has made a name for himself as a chef who prepares fresh nor seem greedy and served an innovative company. professional cliff diver i know has been hurrying herself off rugged ledges for almost 15 years while sometimes from a height of up to 20 metres and through these daring feeds she's become one of europe's most successful cliff divers we met up with her in switzerland on the edge

of a cliff no less. 3 seconds that's all she's got then on a platter hits the water at a speed of about 85 kilometers an hour. cliff diving its cliff diving gives me this great sense of freedom up there on all my own any sort of untouchable me and when i take off and i'm in the advantage that is a moment of weightlessness that's what freedom feels like to me yes it's not i hate i'm. one of europe's most popular cliff diving locations is near the swiss village of ponta brawler. telling off its vital since cliff divers cannot afford to slip to hit the water at such high speeds that the water surface can act like concrete that's why they

almost into the water feet 1st. hitting the surface at a bad angle after a 20 meter drop is like being in a fairly serious traffic accident resulting in broken bones sprains and dislocated joints but this mainly happens to novice divers injury rates for professionals are fairly low. the overwhelmed and say here's essential it helps us stay focused and avoid becoming reckless. so if you're is generally a good thing for us then we need to prepare ourselves mentally before the dive and then vision the jump in our minds. for them in the end i also do breathing exercises that were really centered when we go about life in the way that. cliff diving is an adrenaline rush on about our practices yoga during training and at competitions to stay calm and focused.

her partner chris come on. this is also a professional cliff diver together they have 2 children to keep fitness and family life in balance they often train together but being a parent and an extreme athlete is not always easy. so i'm more was more worried about myself like when i'm performing also like when she's diving i'm worried about her because you know before if you're single you're responsible if you're so but you know ever think what you do. whole form. is that really now that i have a family i have less time to train and prepare for competition and. that's why i decided to slow down a little and do easy

a little math and i still spoke still even in 2017 i achieved better results than ever before. as a child honored to gymnastics springboard diving and later platform diving but that all changed one day i was on vacation. as exists in babylon i was 17 i was on vacation in jamaica and there were these locals time to go to the cliff by rick's cafe easy since quickstep fate and there was a platform for tourists to jump from and so i did that one thing we don't have 100 local said you have that all your professional me lady to come over and dive with us and that was my cliff diving debut. here in bunch of rolla on a batter's cliff diving career took off in 2005 for many years she was the only woman in the sport and had to compete against men no provisions had ever been made for female contenders if demanded there are plenty of

a high level competition that's what many more opportunity to train and die. and that's especially a great for us women and it was always my dream even when i just started out that that eventually the real competitions to take part and to get even with. her dream has come true but on a banners and i'm finished yet when faced with a challenge she's always ready to take the plunge. about 20 years ago bad advice from munich who was looking for an outdoor sport that suited him but he had no luck so he decided to create one for himself he called it c trekking and he combined his love for the ocean travel and adventure in a unique way will see truckers rely on their own physical endurance while exploring the coasts rejoined him at one of his workshops in croatia.

see tractors get to enjoy deserted beach is breathtaking bays and stunning underwater landscapes. they explore gorgeous coastline it's like diving hiking and swimming. with me personally the ocean is a sheer bend less expanse. it's a space you can never conquer and it's this intangibility the draws me out there again and again. that's absolute freedom. absolutely. then how it is a sea trekking pioneer 20 years ago he was the 1st to swim from one tiny island to the next these days he offers workshops where he teaches others about the sport today he's on the croatian island of trash giving a sea trekking course with free diver nick and i learned most participants are

familiar with water sports which helps. the y. in the uk so the. workshops like these highlight different aspects of sea trekking. you know. such as planning your routes the equipment needed and of course the way you move underwater. i did think. it's not a lot like swimming in open waters or free diving. would see trekking your movements are result of the expanse of the sea. one of the most important pieces of kit is a kind of waterproof backpack it was developed by bernhardt himself see truckers use it to transport everything they need drinking water clothing food a sleeping mat and sneaking back. to me with the future or taking. about 10 liters of drinking water. though i'll have to rearrange it in my pack so it won't get in

my way when i'm swimming later on. once everything is packed the backpack is inflated now it has a streamlined shape and can be pulled behind the sea truckers without much effort. this 3 day workshop only features a short trip to a nearby bay further down the coast all participants sleep out in the open. and we're not really all that nervous i just hope i won't be cold because we'll probably be going for 23 hours. but if i don't mind the weather because we'll be in the water or diving most of the time i hope. the weather and the underwater currents are important factors to consider. sometimes swim several kilometers per day and occasionally put in free diving stops. you can go see trekking pretty much anywhere. of course we had to wild coastal

regions because there's such an incredible gift and experience of nature. lonely islands where no one else ever goes. you spend the nights in the jungle and the next day you dive right back in to the coral reefs. it's been called. the workshop participants swim about 2 kilometers to a bait that can only be reached by water. during a sudden rain shower they set up their camp and make a fire. interesting is how you see trekking is all about being in nature though giving something back it's such a gift to be able to carry it through. unfortunately the next day the weather has worsened and swimming back through the choppy waves he's hard work.

but once they've made it everyone's really happy. guy this was a great tour even though the sea was a bit rough i have to say this was a great trip long ago we learned a lot they showed us a lot of things i often find so let's see checking is an exceptional way of getting around i definitely do it again the different color. and after this nature trip most participants are also happy to return to civilisation. this year. and with that we wrap up this special edition of euro max now don't forget to follow us on facebook or go to our own website to see the reports again as always thanks for tuning and we'll see them soon.

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