Free Diving -- Beautiful Connection with the Earth: Ai Futaki at TEDxFukuoka
Channel: TEDx Talks
Date: 2014-04-15

Ai Futaki
Water Ambassador/Guinness World Records Holder
In 2011, Ai Futaki became the first human to earn two Guinness World Records for the longest distance dive in a cave with one single breath  [with fins and without fins]. She studied film, documentaries, and Spanish in California and Cuba, started underwater life as a scuba-diver, and then finally met free-diving which dives underwater with One single breath. She is one and the only person in the world who shares the beauty of connecting with the nature by free-diving. She is the bridge between the water world and the human world as an underwater harmonist (underwater performance, modelling, and filming), and as a symbol of the water.

Futaki hopes to share Earth's beautiful underwater world through her many works.

TEDxFukuoka is one of the TEDx conferences. http://www.tedxfukuoka.com/

【素潜り】を通じて繋がる地球との素晴らしい関係 - 二木 あい - TEDxFukuoka

二木 あい
ウォーターアンバサダー／ギネス世界記録保持者
2011年に世界で初めてメキシコの洞窟の中を一息で最長距離を泳ぐ記録をフィン無しで樹立。同じくフィン有りで女性初のギネス記録を打ち立てる。彼女は、カリフォルニアとキューバに渡り、映画やドキュメンタリーを撮影する技術とスペイン語を学んだ後、スキューバダイビングを経て、ひと呼吸だけで潜るフリーダイビング（素潜り）と出会う。その後、素潜りで水中から、自然と繋がる素晴らしさを伝える「水と陸との架け橋」となるべく、世界でも類を見ない水中表現家（パフォーマンス、モデル、映像撮影など）として、またスポークスマンとして唯一無二の活動している。

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