If you have even the vaguest interest in competitive freediving, you’ll have heard of Vertical Blue. Dubbed the “Wimbledon of Freediving” by the NY Times for good reason, this is the most prestigious competition of the freediving calendar. It’s the competition that every competitive freediver wants to attend, and is closely watched by everyone else. Held at Dean’s Blue Hole, in Long Island, Bahamas, it isn’t the cheapest competition to get to. However, the location is possibly the best place in the world for deep freediving training, just beating the Blue Hole in Dahab – for the deepest divers – because of its unlimited depth (well, 200+m, but most are a few meters off that depth yet). While