Sydney's Freediving Community is Growing | Deep Sensations Freediving Update

We’ve just wrapped up our biggest weekend ever.

64 divers joined us across Manly, Bondi and Sydney, over 2 days.

It was an early start Saturday mroning with a 4am wake-up. The DS Crew were set to collab with our friends, The Snork Club for a community event. Yet the turnout left us shocked.

Nearly 50 divers came together for breathwork, equalisation training, a snorkel/fun dive, and of course coffee and a proper catch-up afterwards.

I ran the breathwork session for the crew. With a group that size, and many people completely new to breathwork, the goal isn’t to make it intense, it’s to make it accessible. Meet people where they are, keep it engaging, and let the group energy shape the flow.

We focused on three key practices, coherent breathing + Cadence Breathing, the physiological sigh, and some cyclic hyperventilation. The idea was simple: connect people to their breath, calm the nervous system, then gently lift the energy and sense of connection.

The dive itself was epic. Fevers of rays, turtles, sharks, fiddler rays, and huge schools of fish. A few attempts at bubble rings… some more successful than others.

Afterwards everyone lingered over coffee, flowers and chocolates getting passed around (big shoutout to Snork Club), and nobody wanted to leave. Those post-dive conversations are honestly the best bit.

Meanwhile back in Wollongong, Cam was running a private spearfishing course with 7 international guests from Belgium, and I later linked up with them to jump in the water together.

Sunday morning I was back at Gordons Bay to finish a Beginner course that had been postponed due to swell a few weeks earlier, and every student passed with flying colours. Congrats on the epic PBS!

Weekends like this genuinely mean a lot. So many familiar faces, so many new ones, and even a diver who travelled all the way from Brisbane just to attend the community event.

It’s a reminder of what this is really about, not just diving, but connection. Connection to nature, to community, and to yourself.

I’m incredibly inspired after this weekend, and we are going to do more of these in the future.