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Looking forward to getting stuck in. . Hopefully,

Looking forward to getting stuck in.
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Hopefully, my plans are rarely set in stone these days, heading over the Channel with @richstevenson.uk on my return from the Skydiving World Champs in @skydivearizona for some cave diving.
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The plan is to test out some new dive kit, camera kit and finally capture some sequences I’ve had in head for 3 years.
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📸 by @richstevenson.uk (from our last trip)
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#diving #cavediving #adventure #stunts #stuntperformer #tight

A shot of myself and Richie Kohler decompressing o

A shot of myself and Richie Kohler decompressing over the shipwreck of Britannic.
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The wreck lies 120m down at the bottom of the Aegean Sea and an hour's divev on the ship required around 6 hours of decompression. And we didn't have the wet bell (the chamber we're in in this photo) for the final dive.
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Decompressing means slowing making your way back to the surface stopping at various depths along the way. So, it took as 3 or 4 minutes to freefall through the water from the suurface to Britannic, an hour on the shipwreck then another 6 hours to ascend back to fresh air.
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But still the best shipwreck dive I have done. And, after a few years of focusing on cave diving, I'm hoping to have some more technical, deep sea projects happening in 2023.
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#diving #shipwreck #adventure #techdiving #wreckdiving
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Photo by me with a @gopro 4

A short summary of the final prep, dive and surfac

A short summary of the final prep, dive and surfacing in the air bell in Sump Seven of Otter Hole…exploration continues
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#cavediving #adventure #ad #diving #explore

With 4 weeks to go before I head to the States for

With 4 weeks to go before I head to the States for the World Skydiving Champs jumping is becoming the focus.
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Weekly sessions in the wind tunnel with @jstcoaching training speed (and destroying my helmet on the net) and trying to get the time and weather to fall out of the sky is taking over from my usual aquatic pursuits.
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But at the end of October that focus will switch back to the more usual underwater activities including putting time into raising my freediving game and a cave diving filmingg trip to France.
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But for now it's all about Blue Skies and Fast Falling.
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Photo by @mikeylovemore (who else).
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#skydiving #speed #blue #freefall #stuntperformer

Time was a larger factor than normal on my latest

Time was a larger factor than normal on my latest cave diving trip. When diving time underwater, time at depth, time in decompression, time of use of your CO2 scrubber are all important. But for our last trip we had to negotiate a tidal sump about an hour’s caving, dragging dive kit, from the entrance. This part of the cave fills up with water at high tide and become impassable.
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So the plan was to arrive just as the passageway opened, get to dive base (another 90 mins of caving) to dive sumps 2 to 6 (these sumps are permanently underwater). Then my dive buddy, Pete Hall, would investigate a new, dry side passage while I went on to explore the end of sump 7. And with all that done it was time to make out way back through the tidal sump before it closed again.
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We had to calculate what time of day the tidal sump would open and close then work out our plan based around that central piece of information. Everything from our RV time at the car park, our time leave the cars, to arrive at the cave entrance, our last safe turn around point in the deepest sections was all based around these times.
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This trip, even more than my normal cave diving trips, was all about… … … timing.
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Photo, in the tidal sump, by Pete Hall.
Watch by @panerai - Submersible Marina Militare Carbotech PAM00979
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#cavediving #cave #diving #watch #ad #panerai #time

R.I.P The Commander-in-Chief, Head of the Armed Fo

R.I.P The Commander-in-Chief, Head of the Armed Forces.
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This shot is from our last meeting in 2017 in my capacity as Ambassador for The National Army Museum.

After a few problems and false starts we finally m

After a few problems and false starts we finally made it to this year's target on our exploration project in a UK cave.
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With support moving heavy dive kit in the days before, myself and Pete Hall did an 11 hour total trip to cave in and dive through 6 sumps (underwater passageways). At that point we split and Pete investigated a dry side passage and discovered another lead.
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I carried on underwater into sump 7 diving for around 120m to invesigate a chamber at the end for further extensions and more new cave.
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It's like doing a 9 hour assualt course with heavy dive kit and 12 cave dives thrown in so you can 'rest'. A long, hard day but wortth the effort to reach this isolated locations. There are still uncharted territories off the map even somewhere as small and populated as Britain.
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I think the season for this cave is over but I'll be casting my eye onto other projects. However, with 6 weeks before the World Skydiving Championships I need to, temporarily, hang up my fins and focus on freefall.
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Photo by m'good self.
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#cavediving #diving #adventure #explore #extreme #watches

A few years back I had the chance to do some freed

A few years back I had the chance to do some freediving trainings and filming at Y40 in Italy.
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I also had the chance to train on the monofin. Not only does it make you feel like a dolphin (dolphin tails are horizontal like this monofin as opposed to sharks’ tails which run vertically. This is due to cetaceans (dolphins, whales and porpoises) being evolved from terrestrial mammals) but it also generates masses of power.
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#freediving #underwater #monofin #mermaid #dolphin

Most things are better shared and diving is no dif

Most things are better shared and diving is no different. It’s certainly more fun and can improve safety. However, sometimes in Cave Diving we choose to dive solo. There are a variety of good reasons why diving solo, or diving as if you were solo even if a buddy happens to be in the same cave, is actually a safer option.
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Sometimes the depths, distances and length of time submerged make it logistically prohibitive to approach these dives as ’solo’. You need a team plans, team kit and team emergency drills. However, for the majority of my dives I approach it as a solo dive, even if I’m with someone. I take responsibility for looking after myself and solving my own issues. Approaching these projects with a ‘oh my mate will save me’ attitude is not a good idea.
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And this solo approach, whether I’m actually on my own or not, means I become much more reliant on my equipment, the choice, configuration, serviceability and use, it becomes the only partner I have.
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Photo (Selfie) by Me.
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Watch by @panerai -Submersible Marina Militare Carbotech PAM00979

Shot over two long nights in Helsinki Pool when it

Shot over two long nights in Helsinki Pool when it was closed to the public (got in at 2100hrs and left around 0500) this is some of the clips from the finale to Dive Odyssey.
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Filmed by @diversofthedark
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#freediving #freediver #film #stunt #stuntperformer #underwaterstunts

A shot from the Freediver Level 1 course I ran rec

A shot from the Freediver Level 1 course I ran recently with @aquacityfreediving
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The course teaches the student many lesssons. The most important being how to carry the heavy float, dive-line and dumbell weights...so that I don't have to. Very important.
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Photo by @daanverhoevenfreediver
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#freediving #freediver #ocean #wetsuits

Spent a good day yesterday hanging on the outside

Spent a good day yesterday hanging on the outside of aeroplanes then falling through the sky with @stunt_badger and @jamesapps
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Not for work, not for training, not for a project just a rare chance to do something just because.
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#skydiving #skydive #parachute #adventure

Time. There is never enough. I don’t need more m

Time. There is never enough. I don’t need more money or more power but more time would be wonderful. There never seems to be enough to do all the things we want to do, see all the places, to spend time with all the people we’d like to and make the all differences and changes we’d want to see in the world.
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This month I spent a few weeks camping with my family in The French Alps and my kids are walking, talking, animated clocks. Their growth acts as a constant reminder about the passage of time and how finite it is.
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So, I try to find perspective and priorities. This latter will change, sometimes work, sometimes training, sometimes family and sometimes friends but always to make the most of the time we have. To improve, to explore, to enjoy life and to try and make the small difference in the world.
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And our time in the mountains has inspired me to take on some more mixed mountaineering and diving projects in 2023 and maybe even in 2022…if I have the time...
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Photo by @beckibiggins
Watch by @panerai - Submersible Marina Militare Carbotech PAM00979
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#panerai #watches #adventure #time #ad #mountains

I took the opportunity to do some commando freediv

I took the opportunity to do some commando freediving whilst in The Alps with my family.
I love how the colour changes as you move up and down the water column.
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#freediving #diving #underwater #adventure

I spend a great deal of time away from my home in

I spend a great deal of time away from my home in The Forest.
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On film and TV work or my own adventures and exploration projects.
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So we tend to camp as a family and live in each other’s pockets to maximise how much time we’re actually together.
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This summer I’ve taken the family to The Alps in our @baileyofbristol motorhome for a few weeks in the mountains and lakes.
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The boys have had their first look at Mont Blanc…watch this space in a few years for another attempt with an expanded Torbet Boys team.

Doing a little shimmying and shaking to get throug

Doing a little shimmying and shaking to get through this section of underwater cave.
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We like it tight.
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#cavediving #diver #extreme #adventure #fear #risk

Freediving and self-filming for @fullychargedshow

Freediving and self-filming for @fullychargedshow in Mallorca this week with @silent_yachts_headquarters
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Film out soon.
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#freediving #solarpower #sea #ocean

A shot taken on a recent freediving course I ran w

A shot taken on a recent freediving course I ran with @aquacityfreediving out of @porthkerrisdivers .
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We lucked in with the weather and sea conditions which allowed us to play amongst the many cracks, crannies, gorges and sea caves around the Southern Cornish coast.
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Time underwater and on a breath-hold can be very important in competitive freediving but that's not something I do a great deal of. I'm more of an 'adventure-freediver' using freediving to explore places and see caves, shipwrecks, reefs, seals, sharks, dolphins and more.
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However, I have learned (whilst filming in Italy for the BBC) the importance of trackiing time on the surface - recovery time. I need to ensure I'm taking enough time to recover from a breath-hold dive otherwise my performance, and margin for safety, declines.
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Which can take discipline when you're haivng fun and there is so much great stuff to see underwater.
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Photo by @daanverhoevenfreediver
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Watch by @panerai - Submersible Marina Militare Carbotech PAM00979
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#freediving #watches #diver #underwater #ad

Filming and freediving with mako sharks (the faste

Filming and freediving with mako sharks (the fastest shark in the world) off the coast of Baja.
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These incredible animals can swim over 50mph.
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Please note - the white pole I’m holding IS NOT for touching the shark in any way.
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#shark #freediving #diving #sharks

I can often be found by the coast. Although I live

I can often be found by the coast. Although I live in, and was brought up in, a forest the amount of diving, freedivving, sea-kayaking and climbing I do means I am always drawn to the sea.
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And we have plenty of it around the UK.
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So I'm often found camping near the ocean at home and abroad and my latest blog for @baileyofbristol covvers some thoughts.
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Link in the bio.
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Thanks.
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#camping #coast #adventure #vanlife

It was an early start to beat the rain and get a l

It was an early start to beat the rain and get a little solo cave dive in before breakfast.
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I was having fun and grabbing some shot for @panerai.
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@beuchatuk @beuchat_diving @fourthelementdive @apeksdiving
#diving #cavediving #adventure #watchesofinstagram

I have become an Ambassador, along with 19 other w

I have become an Ambassador, along with 19 other world class divers and ocean conservation advocates for @daneurope .
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@daneurope are a non-profit organisation who invest in research and campaigns for ocean conservation and diver safety.
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📸by @martinrhartley

A quick dash through the second sump (a sump is an

A quick dash through the second sump (a sump is an underwater section of cave) of Font del Truffe in France.
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Camera by Rich Stevenson and me.
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#cave #darkness #diver #adventure #underwater

I recently did a short interview with @mrporter fo

I recently did a short interview with @mrporter for @panerai along with fellow adventurers @aldokane and @freediveanna talking about tough times and tough kit.
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Follow the @panerai link in my bio.
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Thanks.
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Photo by @martinrhartley
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Watch - @panerai Submersible Bronzo 47mm PAM00968
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#adventure #watches #tough #ad

I some to have been encouraging a lot of people I'

I some to have been encouraging a lot of people I've met recently to take up climbing. And I'vve been seeing their exploits on social media and I've realised it's been a long time since I danced up some routes.
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I'ev still been out on the cliffs but it's been focused on mountain rescue training. That and the cave diving, freediving, skydiving, martial arts, riding, working and kids has left little time.
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Lack of time is a problem we all face and we just have to prioritise. I find I cannot maintain a very high level in evverything all the time and with some more big diving projects planned for this year and the Wolrd SKydivivng Championships coming up climbing will have to continue to take a back seat. But you don't need to be climbing super high grades to enjoy a great day out in the vertical world and the beginners I'vev seen taking up the sport has reminded me of that.
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Photo by @ilko_iliev_
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#climbing #climber #adventure #perspective

A final shot (well two shots) from our cave trip t

A final shot (well two shots) from our cave trip to France.
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After we surfaced, after 6 hours underwater, in the dry cave that was to be our campsite we had to prepare our kit for the next morning's dive out.
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The pool on the right of shot 1 is the way home.
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Before we sat down for dinner we replaced our oxygen bottle, change the carbonn dioxide scrubber and laid out our equipment. It's hard when all you want to do is sit down but we'd appreciate it in the morning.
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It's all about doing favours for your future self.
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With all that done and the clock ticking (or my @panerai Submersible Marina Militare Carbotech PAM00979) it was time for some essential food and rest.
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Photos by Chris Jewell.
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#adventure #divinng #cavediving #panerai #ad

After 6 hours underwater cave diving we surfaced

After 6 hours underwater cave diving we surfaced in a dry cave to camp for the night.
But the oxygen content in the air was very low. So low we couldn’t get the stoves to light.
So I blew some of my high oxygen SCUBA gas across my @jetboil and managed to get it going so we could eat..
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#diving #camping #adventure

Testing the prototype electric turbine engines (th

Testing the prototype electric turbine engines (the things strapped to my thighs) a few years back.
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With my man @mikeylovemore filming as always.
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#skydiving #stuntlife #skydiver #parachute

We've been camping with the kids since the oldest

We've been camping with the kids since the oldest was 4 weeks old. It's not (always) as difficult as you may think and the simplicity of life can make things even easier.
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Camping with kids - a blog on few thoughts I've had along the way is now live on the @baileyofbristol site. Link in the bio.
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#camping #kids #camp #vanlife

After a long drive back from the cave diving trip

After a long drive back from the cave diving trip to France it was straight back on the road to Cornwall to teach a freediving course with @aquacityfreediving . But this time we added an extra day to introduce the students to what they could do with their new skills.
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I don’t compete at Freediving. I use it to see see and experience the underwater world. We dived inside sea caves and surfaced in tiny beaches at the back of these caves. We saw Risso’s Dolphins and swam with Grey Seals.
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And, for added fun, I took along a DPV (Diver Propulsion Vehicle) I’d borrowed from @ianfrancetechnical to give the students a ride through the kelp covered canyons.
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I admire the achievements of the freediving athletes but it’s the opportunity and freedom to access the submerged world that draws me down.
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Photo by @daanverhoevenfreediver
Underwater Timepiece by @panerai (specifically my Submersible Marina Militare PAM00979)
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#freediving #ocean #sea #adventure #ad #panerai

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