The World’s Freediving Podcast
Welcome to The Freedive Café, a pure freediving podcast.
At The Freedive Café Donny sits down with freedivers great and small. He goes really deep with some of the deepest humans on Earth and discovers the personal stories, the inspirations, the techniques and training, the routines and passions of freedivers from all walks of life, from competitive athletes, instructors and trainers, underwater photographers, ocean conservationists and many more.
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#177 | Olavi Paananen | Under Ice
The Freedive Cafe Podcast is available on all good podcast players!For freediving courses in Dahab, Egypt, visit the main website www.truedepthfreediving.comOlavi Paananen is a Finnish entrepreneur who recently broke the CMAS World Record for freediving under ice,...
#176 | Nejc & Nikos | Kalamata Freedivers
The Freedive Cafe Podcast is available on all good podcast players!For freediving courses in Dahab, Egypt, visit the main website www.truedepthfreediving.comKalamata Freedivers is a freediving school and training facility located in Kalamata Greece, run by Nejc Likar...
#175 | William Trubridge | Blue Pearl
The Freedive Cafe Podcast is available on all good podcast players!For freediving courses in Dahab, Egypt, visit the main website www.truedepthfreediving.comWilliam Trubridge is one of the most celebrated freedivers of all time, achieving multiple world records,...
#174 | Jack Webb | Jungle Freediver
The Freedive Cafe Podcast is available on all good podcast players!For freediving courses in Dahab, Egypt, visit the main website www.truedepthfreediving.comJack Webb is an up and coming deep freediver from Far North Queensland in Australia. He recently dived 113m in...
#173 | Martin McPhilimey | Breath Science
The Freedive Cafe Podcast is available on all good podcast players!For freediving courses in Dahab, Egypt, visit the main website www.truedepthfreediving.comMartin McPhilimey is a respiratory and sleep scientist by background and the founder of The School of Breath...
#172 | Pedro Tapia | The Inner Dive
The Freedive Cafe Podcast is available on all good podcast players!For freediving courses in Dahab, Egypt, visit the main website www.truedepthfreediving.comPedro Tapia is a Mexican freediving athlete and the deepest unassisted freediver in the Americas, diving almost...
#171 | Lisa Davidsson | The Surf Psychologist
The Freedive Cafe Podcast is available on all good podcast players!For freediving courses in Dahab, Egypt, visit the main website www.truedepthfreediving.comLisa Davidsson is a psychologist and hypnotherapist from Sweden, now based in Bali. Known as the surf...
#170 | Nataliia Zharkova | Resurgence
The Freedive Cafe Podcast is available on all good podcast players!For freediving courses in Dahab, Egypt, visit the main website www.truedepthfreediving.comNataliia Zharkova is a Ukrainian competitive freediver who this year (2025), returned to the competition scene...
#169 | Zsófia Törőcsik | Phenom
The Freedive Cafe Podcast is available on all good podcast players!For freediving courses in Dahab, Egypt, visit the main website www.truedepthfreediving.comZsófia Törőcsik is a Hungarian freediving athlete who in 2025 became the first female freediving athlete to...
#168 | Anna-Karina Schmitt | Sweet Water
The Freedive Cafe Podcast is available on all good podcast players!For freediving courses in Dahab, Egypt, visit the main website www.truedepthfreediving.comAnna-Karina Schmitt is a German freediver based in Switzerland. Today we talk about the technicalities of...
#167 | Juani Valdivia | Freediving Doctor
The Freedive Cafe Podcast is available on all good podcast players!For freediving courses in Dahab, Egypt, visit the main website www.truedepthfreediving.comJuani Valdivia is from Peru and is based in Tampa, Florida where he works as a neurosurgeon. He is also a...
#166 | Marco Puliafito | Blue World Freediving
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