No stopping Turkey’s cube-championship winning freedivers

Turkey’s freedivers, most of whom are students from various universities, look set to become the champions of the CMAS 1st European Apnea Championship at the end of August.

The cube, also known as “jump blue,” is a discipline of freediving that involves competitors diving without a breathing apparatus to 10 meters and swimming the outside of a 15 meter by 15 meter square (the cube) marked out by ropes. Twelve divers compete at a time while referees stay on the seabed to make sure they abide by the rules. The winners are those who make it the furthest along the sides of the cube. Competitors are mostly in their mid-30s or younger.

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