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- noun A
practitioner offree-diving .
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Examples
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And Jacques Mayol, the legendary free-diver who was the first man to breach the 300-foot frontier without air reservoirs.
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Just as we were leaving, world-champion free-diver Tanya Streeter arrived to give a week of snorkeling and scuba lessons and lectures.
Paradise in Progress 2008
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Those friends encouraged her to start training as a free-diver.
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Tall and wiry, with cool, narrow-set eyes and sandy-blond hair flecked with gray, Winram is a champion free-diver, capable of holding his breath for eight minutes.
News - latimes.com 2011
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Tall and wiry, with cool, narrow-set eyes and sandy-blond hair flecked with gray, Winram is a champion free-diver, capable of holding his breath for eight minutes.
News - latimes.com 2011
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Tall and wiry, with cool, narrow-set eyes and sandy-blond hair flecked with gray, Winram is a champion free-diver, capable of holding his breath for eight minutes.
News - latimes.com 2011
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The great French free-diver Loic Leferme drowned himself practising to break his own world record in 2007.
Evening Standard - Home Dan Jones 2011
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Female free-diver Ashley Futral has been pictured catching a ride on the back of a
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Female free-diver Ashley Futral hitches a ride on a shark off the coast of North Carolina,
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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And if the partial pressure of oxygen falls too low during an ascent, a free-diver can suffer a dreaded shallow water blackout and drown.
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