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Georgina Miller

Why did you start free-diving? I’ve loved swimming ever since I was a kid. Before taking my first free-diving course in 2007, I was a scuba instructor in Thailand. One day, we were exploring a shipwreck and I saw this lady swim down from the surface using only a monofin, which is a swimfin you attach to both feet. I thought, ‘I’d love to be able to do that!’ At first, it

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