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United States Apnea Association is now USA Freediving!

Visit their official website - www.USAFreediving.com (you are currently on an old version of the site that has not been updated for a long time and is only working to inform you about the organization's web address change!)

Nick Mevoli News Links

Salon https://www.salon.com/2013/12/09/freediving_grows_in_popularity_despite_risks/

ABC News https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/11/free-diver-nick-mevoli-32-dies-while-attempting-new-depths-in-bahamas/

Sara Campbell's article in The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/depths-of-despair-freediver-nicholas-mevoli-was-the-most-promising-athlete-in-the-us--but-an-unhealthy-obsession-led-him-to-his-death-8960806.html

CNN article https://edition.cnn.com/2013/11/19/sport/nick-mevoli-freediving/

Huffington Post https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/18/nicholas-mevoli-dead-freediving_n_4294034.html

The Sydney Morning Herald https://www.smh.com.au/world/obsessions-can-kill-nicholas-mevoli-consumed-by-free-diving-20131120-2xtxj.html

Heavy article https://www.heavy.com/news/2013/11/nicholas-mevoli-dead-dies-rip-freediving/

Wall Street Journal https://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2013/11/18/nicholas-mivoli-a-free-diver-from-brooklyn-dies-during-competition/

Mirror UK https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/nicholas-mevoli-dead-american-freediver-2804892

Fox Sports https://msn.foxsports.com/other/story/american-free-diver-nicholas-mevoli-dies-in-bahamas-event-111813

New.com.au https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/freediver-nicholas-mevoli-dies-after-descending-72-metres-in-the-bahamas/story-fneuzle5-1226762722694

Slate https://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/explainer/2013/11/nicholas_mevoli_freediving_death_what_happens_to_people_who_practice_holding.html

Daily Mail UK https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2509100/Record-holding-American-freediver-dies-attempting-break-record-Bahamas-diving-competition.html

Examiner.com https://www.examiner.com/article/nicholas-mevoli-free-dive-death-fatal-236-foot-dive-by-32-year-old-brooklyn-man

Daan Blog https://daanverhoeven.com/blog/2013/11/i-am-nicholas-mevoli/

NY Magazine https://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/11/nicholas-mevoli-brooklyn-free-diver-dies.html

Tampa Bay Time Obituary https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sptimes/obituary.aspx?pid=168150289

NPR 3 https://www.npr.org/2013/12/17/251943247/some-competitors-say-freediving-needs-a-safety-sea-change

NPR 2 https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=247006316

NPR 1 https://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/11/18/245942173/doing-what-he-loved-deep-sea-diver-dies-after-record-bid

NY Daily News 2 https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/brooklyn-freediver-dies-attempting-world-record-bahamas-article-1.1520831

NY Daily News 1https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/brooklyn-man-32-dies-freedive-contest-article-1.1520410

NY Times 3 https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/19/sports/testing-limits-of-a-niche-sport-diver-met-fate-72-meters-down.html

NY Times 2 https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/21/sports/readers-react-to-a-divers-rise-and-swift-death.html

NY Times 1 https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/18/sports/deep-water-diver-from-brooklyn-dies-after-trying-for-a-record.html?_r=0

AIDA Statement https://www.aidainternational.org/news/?p=1637

 

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