- [Man] The free diver to me is a pioneer.

We're all experimenting in something that has not been

the main thrust of humanity until now.

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My name is Aharon Solomons.

I'm a free dive instructor-trainer from Edah.

I specialize in coaching athletes who want

to do national records or world records.

You've got to kick in your dive reflexes,

breathe up a little bit, uh, breathing,

about as you'd do just before you went to sleep.

Then one big breath, turn over, and go.

From the moment that you leave the surface,

the blood is beginning to leave the peripheries

and migrate towards the so-called noble organs.

Then you start to sink faster and faster.

Once you're free falling, it's pure pleasure.

It's an incredible sensation of restfulness.

You're going down, and the colors change.

You go down from a clear blue hue

to a darker blue, and to a purple twilight.

And then finally into total blackness.

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a rude awakening, we hit the plate,

and then we turn 'round and we have to work

a bit harder coming up, and as you come up,

you're working less hard, because buoyancy is returning,

and then it's like a rebirth,

you're coming back into the light.

The whole process is one of pleasure,

and of terrific sense of adventure and achievement.

Usually changes some switches.

All the things that I thought were impossible,

all the things that I thought

were not achievable by me, are.

If that's achievable, what else isn't achievable?

And that opens a whole Pandora's box.

So it's quite an experience, free diving.

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