Yorgans Ochoa, the tamer of the depths

Fighting with himself. Yorgans David Ochoa Oliveros is ready to go down. It’s your last day on the paradise beaches of Saint Andrew and, most likely, your last chance in the month – maybe in the year – to do the sport you love with all the laws.

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The 21-year-old resident of Puerto Colombia says openly and with complete certainty that he is currently the only practitioner of freediving or freediving professionally in the department of Atlántico. It is not a well-known discipline in his area, although he lives a stone’s throw from the sea.

It has been 20 spectacular days away from home. Next to him are Sofía Gómez and Cristian Castaño, two great figures of the Free diving. The woman from Pereira holds three world records and the Manizaleño already knows what it means to break national records 25 times. These are the teachers from the most recent course he took to become an instructor – something unprecedented on the Colombian coast.

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-“Let’s go to the water, I know you can reach a new goal”, were the words with which Sofía Gómez encouraged him.

He was full of motivation. He always dreamed of moments like this. I dropped the body the sea and not many seconds passed as his hands tightened the rope that would accompany him on his journey. His eyes were closed, it was a relationship between his senses and the density of the water.

Source: El heraldo

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