The joy of free diving

Question 1

Free diving

Answer 1

It’s a sport where people dive underwater as deep as they can without carrying air tanks, so just by holding their breath. It’s sth actually intimidating & you’re deprived of all sensations.

What do you know about free diving?
He did a lot of free diving in lakes in his home country of Austria.

Question 2

Lungs

Answer 2

The organs in our body that hold the air that we breath in.

Why train with empty lungs? Only the time you have the urge to breathe & fight against it, that’s the time you’re actually training.
Do you fancy free diving?

Question 3

Urge

Answer 3

This strong feeling to do sth is called an urge.
A very strong need/desire to do sth.

Only the time you have the urge to breathe & fight against it, that’s the time you’re actually training.
You have to practice fighting against that urge.

Question 4

Fight against

Answer 4

Simply means ignore.

Only the time you have the urge to breathe & fight against it, … .
You have to practice to fight against your urge.

Question 5

Intimidating

Answer 5

A feeling of being frightened by sth stronger & more powerful than you are.
It’s overpowering in a way that makes you less confident.

It’s sth actually intimidating. Quiet, & you are deprived of all sensations except the cold & so you hear your own heart beat.

Question 6

Deprived of sth

Answer 6

You don’t have it, & taken away.

Quiet, & you’re deprived of all sensations except the cold.

Sensations: The way we experience the world, so sound, smell & sight.

Question 7

Spooky

Answer 7

It’s a little scary & mysterious- in the same way you might find a graveyard @ night spooky- that kind of feeling.

Diving in cold, dark, & silent water, you are deprived of many of our usual sensations, & that is spooky & intimidating.
I don’t think I’d like that experience @ all!.