DivingDutchman, PADI Skindiving, Often Skindiving is combined with meditation or yoga. Relaxation lowers your heart rate and oxygen consumption and extends the time you can hold your breath.

What is skindiving?
Skindiving, Free diving, Breathhold diving, Apnea, Snorkeling, many words for the same thing. Why do we use a snorkels in the first place? A snorkel allows to breath on the surface while the face is submersed. In this way no energy is wasted keeping mouth and head out of the water. So we can relax while watching the fish.
Often Skindiving is combined with meditation or yoga. Relaxation lowers your heart rate and oxygen consumption and extends the time you can hold your breath.

Questions and Answers about skindiving

Question: When I swim down I feel pressure on my ears what causes this and what can I do about it?
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When you swim down, the pressure around you gets higher and you feel your eardrum bold in the direction of your middle ear. By equalising your middle ear (witch means making the pressure inside the same as outside) you will be able to take away this uncomfortable feeling. You can equalise your middle ear by gently blowing against pinched nostrils. What also might help is swallowing, jaw movements, jawing or combination of those.

Question: What can I do against my mask fogging up
Answer: Before wetting the mask, spit on the glass and rub it out, than rinse it off. For those that don’t like spit, Dive shops sell special anti fog lubricants. New masks are the worst when it comes to misting, you might want to try rubbing toothpaste on the glas and leaving it for a day.

Question: Am I to old for skindiving
Answer: No, the minimum age for skindiving is 8 year, there is no maximum age. When your fit for swimming your fit for skindiving.

Question: My mask does suck vacuum when I swim to the bottom of the pool?
Answer:
. Just like your ears, the airspace in your mask also has to get equalised, that’s why the nose is integrated in the mask. Simple blow out true your nose and the vacuum is gone.

Question: What is the use of a snorkel?
Answer:
. A snorkel allows you to breath on the surface while your face is submersed. In this way you don’t waist your energy keeping your mouth and head above water so you can relax while watching fish.

Question:	What is the use of a snorkel?
Answer: .	A snorkel allows you to breath on the surface while your face is submersed. In this way you don’t waist your energy keeping your mouth and head above water so you can relax while watching fish.

Question: With a snorkel, can you breath under water?
Answer:
. No, when you dive under the snorkel fills with water witch you first blow out when you surface before you start breezing again .

Question:	With a snorkel, can you breath under water?
Answer: .	No, when you dive under the snorkel fills with water witch you first blow out when you surface before you start breezing again .

Different forms of freediving

Constant Ballast
- The diver must descend and ascend kicking and completely unassisted. The diver may wear weight, but whatever weight is taken down must be returned to the surface. (It's with comparatively little weight - about 2 lbs. or less.) This is the truest form of Freediving and the most respected category amongst freedivers (despite not being the deepest) as a result of the physical element involved.

Free Immersion
- The diver must descend and ascend by pulling on the rope. Weight may be worn, but this is simply variation of the constant weight category so the diver must return to the surface with the same amount of weight used for the descent. No fins are worn.

Variable Ballast
- The diver descends on a weighted sled (with up to a third of their body weight) and returns to the surface under his or her own power, either kicking and/or pulling on the rope, or a combination.

No Limits
- The diver descends on a weighted sled and returns to the surface using a lift bag that is inflated by the diver at depth. (Upon arrival at depth, the diver must disconnect the lift bag portion of the sled from the weighted part and inflate the lift bag by opening a tank valve. Descent rate is approximately 7 feet per second. This is the deepest category of Freediving involving very little physical exertion and an enormous amount of mental control. The ability to equalize quickly, reliably and to great depth is imperative.

Dynamic Apnea
- This category is divided in two, with fins and without fins. The divers swim horizontally not more than a meter (3.28ft) under water in a swimming pool.
Static Apnea
- The diver holds his/her breath floating face down in a swimming pool.

.Links that have to do with freediving:

www.freedivers.com
http://www.iafdusa.com
http://www.aidausa.org
deeperblue.net
www.divesafer.com
www.performancefreediving.com
www.apnea-academy.com

Question:	What can I do against my mask fogging up
Answer:	Before wetting the mask, spit on the glass and rub it out, than rinse it off. For those that don’t like spit, Dive shops sell special anti fog lubricants. New masks are the worst when it comes to misting, you might want to try rubbing toothpaste on the glas and leaving it for a day.

Question:	Am I to old for skindiving
Answer:	No, the minimum age for skindiving is 8 year, there is no maximum age. When your fit for swimming your fit for skindiving.

Question:	My mask does suck vacuum when I swim to the bottom of the pool?
Answer: .	Just like your ears, the airspace in your mask also has to get equalised, that’s why the nose is integrated in the mask. Simple blow out true your nose and the vacuum is gone.