This morning a team of British women are flying back from the South of France having taken part in the World Freediving Championships.
Freediving is a sport where people dive to great depths without any breathing equipment. It’s all done with one big lungful of air and the power that comes from the diver wearing a monofin, a type of flipper shaped rather like a mermaid’s tail.
Hannah Stacey from Cornwall holds the UK women’s record at 54 metres for the Constant Weight category, in which the diver swims down with a rope as a guide. Fiona Clampin met Hannah and her brother Robert as they prepared to take a boat out early one morning for a training session on the Helford river...
