CMAS World Cup Apnea Games 2024 held in Athens, Greece from 27-29 April 2024. It was the first competition of the CMAS world cup pool series that will have qualification status for the coming World Games 2025 in China and it had a great success. For ...
UWH Referee Standards Published
by Don Mathews | CMAS UWH Referee DirectorThree documents have been published by the College of Referees for immediate release. These documents will be useful to anyone in UWH who would like to: Know anything about the UWH Referee Trainin...
CMAS World Games Ranking V2
The second round of the World Cup in Lignano was completed with the participation of 780 athletes. The Finswimming Commission compiles and publishes updated lists of the 24 best performers after each event featured in the World Games programme. As yo...
CMAS World Games Ranking V3
With the completion of the third round of the World Cup, we present you the updated World Games ranking. The next qualifying competition will be the World Championships. We look forward to meeting all of you in Belgrade. Download PDF File Here
Protection of underwater cultural heritage
Editors: Hakan Öniz, Emad Khalil, Gustau Vivar. Ernesto Ottone R.Assistant Director, General of UNESCO for Culture On behalf of UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, we are delighted to present this publi...
UNESCO 2001 Underwater Cultural Heritage Convention Summary
The UNESCO Convention on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage is an international convention adopted in 2001 with t he primary objective of protecting and promoting underwater cultural heritage and combating the extensive pillage, commercia...
New Zealand and Tahiti performed the best at the Inter Pacific Championship
Spearfishermen from New Zealand in the men's category and Tahiti in the women's category are the winners of the Inter-Pacific Spearfishing Championships that were held in New Zealand.
Signing a mutual cooperation agreement
On March 15th, the President of the CMAS Scientific Committee, Francisco A. Lacase, and the Director of Ghost Diving Spain, Raúl Alvares, signed a mutual cooperation agreement between both organizations in Tossa de Mar, Spain. This agreement is frame...
All the fish caught at the II World Cup for Clubs were donated to Gastromotiva
All fish caught during the second edition of the World Cup for Clubs were donated to the non-governmental organization Gastromotiva, funded by David Hertz. In 2015., Hertz met Italian chef Massimo Bottura at the launch of Refettorio Ambrosiano. They ...
C.R. Flamengo spearfishermen dominate II World Cup for Clubs
Francisco Loffredi, Kevin Sansao, and Raphael Ambrosio, spearfishermen from the C.R. Flamengo club, emerged victorious in the second edition of the CMAS World Cup for Clubs held in Rio de Janeiro. The event was organized by the Associacao Paulista de...
CMAS World Games Ranking_V1
Following the changes in the qualification procedure for the World Games and the fact that the results of the rounds of the World Cup and the World Cup Golden Final, as well as the World Championship, can now lead to qualification, the Finswimming Co...
One World Cup: two new World Records
During the first round of the World Cup held in Aix-en-Provence – France, we had the opportunity to witness the achievement of two new world records. Both records were in the Seniors category and the 200-meter Immersion event. An event that cam...
The Flamengo Team will compete in the World Cup for Clubs
Flamengo is the biggest football club in Brazil and arguably in the world. Now, it also has a spearfishing team competing in the CMAS World Cup for Clubs. Clube de Regatas Flamengo has winning teams in many other sports such as volleyball, judo, gymn...
Euro-African Championship will be in Turkey
Join us for the XXXIV Men & III Women CMAS Euro-African Spearfishing Championship! Dates: May 29 - June 2, 2024Location: Erdek Ocaklar, TürkiyeWith just three months to go, preparations are well underway, and we're excited to welcome spearfishing...
UNESCO and CMAS sign a collaboration agreement for the protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage
Turkey, February 29, 2024. CMAS, a global non-profit organization, works to protect Underwater Cultural Heritage (UCH) through special training programs and awareness methods. This approach involves collaborating with scientists and scientific organi...
The II CMAS World Cup for Clubs starts in a week
The CMAS World Cup for Clubs in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, will be held from the 6th to the 9th of March. Team registration is closed, and 20 teams will compete in the Tijucas and Maricas Islands zones. Ten teams are from Brazil, divided into ...
Valentina CAFOLLA succeed a new world record freediving
On Friday February 23rd 2024 the Croatian athlete Valentina CAFOLLA succeed a new world record freediving under ice DYN with wetsuit 140 meters. Previous world record in women category was 126 a few days ago from Yasuko Ozeki Japan. Athlete: Valentin...
Ozeki Yasuko under-ice DYN record attempt
The new Women record DYN under ice (wetsuit) is 126 meters. Utoro, Japan. Ozeki Yasuko successfully set a new World record in DYN-Dynamic with fin(under ice) with wetsuit discipline.
Changes to the zone for the Euro-African Championship
For the Euro-African spearfishing championship in Turkey, 16 countries have registered. The championship is scheduled to take place from May 29th to June 6th, but the new board of the Turkish Federation plans to change the location and move the compe...
Technical Notice: Monofin Stickers & JAKED Swimsuits
Dear Mr. President, As we are at the beginning of the new season and the CMAS competitions are starting very soon we would like to inform you about two main issues. -Monofin Stickers: According to CMAS Rules in force as from January 1st 2021 pa...