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The
official website of Steve Truglia,
Britain's
No Limits Freediving Champion
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Freediving or 'breath hold' or 'apnea' diving is a growing and
exciting sport which involves the participants diving with just the
lungful of air they have on the surface. It is an internationally
recognised sport with the fourth World Championships held in
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Steve Truglia is
currently the deepest freediver in the UK and holder of the official
UK AIDA No Limits Record, set in May 2002 in Scotland, UK. (see www.britishfreediving.org
the BFA Official Site.
Steve also
has a Static Breath Hold of 6min 10sec.
Steve is a
professional Equity Film and Television Stunt Performer and Stunt
Co-ordinator,
as well as being a trained Television Presenter. For more info visit
www.prostunts.net.
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Steve Truglia
Britain's No limits Freediving Champion
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NEWS
UPDATE --- NEWS UPDATE --- NEWS UPDATE --- NEWS UPDATE --- NEWS UPDATE ---
NEWS UPDATE
August
2004 News Update: After a break to concentrate on his
career, Steve is in training to attempt the UK's first 100 metre No Limits
Freedive, the goal he set just two years ago. The dive and training is to
feature in a major television documentary which Steve will present. More
information as it happens here.
On the 18th of May
2002, Steve
established the
first
Official BFA AIDAUK
No Limits Freediving Record of 76m
at Fort William in Scotland. This is the first time this discipline has
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Among the many people helping to make this happen, a
special thanks must go to Loic Leferme, AIDA No Limits World Record
Holder, who has been coaching Steve in this extreme discipline. Thanks
also to Claude Chapuis for training and advice, and to Francois, Fred,
Cedric, Guillaume and Christophe, for all the help and support. A big
thank you also to Frederic Buyle of Belgium for all his advice and
support, and for the sled. In the UK thanks to Alun George and Duncan
Chappell for safety freediver cover and friendship. Also to Warren Brown,
Julius Bates and Mark, the heart of the scuba safety team, and to Stuart
Tatersall for deep safety cover. Thanks also to Don and Lisa McGregor of
The Underwater Centre, Fort William, Scotland for hosting and sponsoring
the attempt, and to Simon Townsend, Flynny, and the rest of the safety
diver and boat crew, and all the staff at The Underwater Centre.Thanks
also to BFA/AIDAUK Records Committee, in particular Steve Fuller and Rodin
O'Hagan for giving their time as judges, and to Ben Gowland for his hard
work in bringing a No Limits record category into the BFA's list of
recognised British Records. |
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A big
welcome to my latest sponsors
The
International Association of Freedivers (IAFD). Also
The Fort William Underwater Centre.
A big thanks to Stuart of Dee Sports Chester
for deep safety diver cover, to
Stephan Whelan of
www.deeperblue.net for coverage and
support, to
Diver magazine and
Sport Diver magazine for coverage and
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Due to the immense costs of safety divers operating at such depths,
support boats, and medical cover etc. I am able to train practically full
time thanks mainly to my sponsors, so please click the link and visit
their websites.
This site will be regularly updated as my training progresses. Training is
practically full time, both in the open water as much as possible, and in
the gym, pool and running track (see link to training).
There will be stories,
progress reports, pictures, news of new sponsors, press releases, and
copies of press articles and product reviews.
Do please visit again and share
the exploration of the big blue sea, and the limits of
human performance with me.
Take care
Steve Truglia
If you are in the
UK you can join the
British Freediving Association on their website at:
www.britishfreediving.org
WARNING! Please, please never breath hold in water or swim underwater
without proper instruction and the supervision of a suitably experienced
buddy. The risk of black out and subsequent death are very real unless
proper buddy procedures are followed. Notice to scuba divers ....
freediving after scuba diving can be fatal, don't do it!
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