Natalia Avseenko: overcoming the laws of nature

Freediving is one of the most extreme sports. Diving with a delay in breathing is the strongest shake-up for the human body. However, Natalia Avseenko, whose biography is rather unusual for a sportswoman, sees freediving as not a sport or entertainment, but as one of the ways to realize herself and her place in nature. Being one of the strongest freedivers, it became famous not even for its own records, but for its unusual and unusual extreme research projects and photo sessions in the water environment.

How come in freediving

Natalia Avseenko has not gone quite the usual way as a professional athlete. After graduating, she seriously studied science. In 2000 she even defended her thesis on culturology and became a candidate of science. Until 2007 she taught at the Moscow State University at the Department of Linguistics and Intercultural Communication at the Faculty of Foreign Languages.

Associate Professor Natalia Avseenko, whose family was struck by her subsequent transformation, was engaged in scuba diving for her soul and health. However, a chain of independent events and accidents brought an intelligent and beautiful girl to the cause of her whole life.

At first her bag with the diving equipment was gone, after she returned after one of the trips to Moscow. Then Natalia became a spectator of the series about the famous Russian freediver Julia Petrik. She became interested in this extreme sport and began to study in the group with an authoritative specialist - Natalia Molchanova.

However, Natalia Avseenko did not immediately feel the pleasure of free floating under water. After the first competition, she felt all the "delights" of hypoxia, expressed in the loss of control over the movement's motility. Gradually the girl entered into the taste of training, and a radical change occurred after one dive, when the body Avseenko was able to adjust to the mode of work in an emergency situation, and she felt a real merger with the water environment.

Sports records

Freediving is a serious sport, which includes several disciplines. Constantly held major competitions, recorded records. Natalia Avseenko soon managed to break into the elite of extreme divers. First, under the direction of Natalia Molchanova, and then independently, she persistently trains, wins awards and receives titles.

The peak of its results came in 2006 and 2008. It was then that she won the gold medals of the World Cup in team competitions. She achieved these successes together with partners of Molchanova and Surikova.

In 2008, Natalia Avseenko set a world record for the depth of free immersion. Against the background of the wonderful nature of the Bahamas, she made an impressive dive at 57 meters, writing her name in the book of sports achievements of world freediving. By the time of the completion of her active career in sports Natalia Avseenko was among the five best in the following disciplines of this sport: statics, constant weight without fins, dynamics.

Having finished with participation in competitions, she did not leave her favorite occupation. Natalia Avseenko opened her own freediving school, is one of the best instructors in the world, organizes major competitions on many occasions.

Spirit of the Horde Cave

Freediving for Natalia Avseenko is not just a sport or a job, but one of the ways to discover the world and discover your own unlimited possibilities. She is an active member of the team Phototeam.pro, which implements numerous art projects, combining them with research work.

In the framework of such research Natalia Avseenko has made an impressive dive in the famous Ordinsky cave. It is located in the Ural Mountains and consists of pure gypsum.

The well-known photographer Viktor Lyagushkin was excited by the idea of creating an image of a guardian spirit, which, according to legend, dwells in the walls of a cave filled with water.

In fluttering clothes on top of a wetsuit, Natalia Avseenko bravely posed for Froggy, being in the water, the temperature of which did not exceed 5 degrees. In the cave itself, the thermometer did not rise above 23 degrees below zero. In these extreme conditions, the diver girl dived to a depth of 17 meters, where she held, holding her breath for more than three minutes.

The result of the joint work of the sportswoman and the artist turned out to be simply stunning. Natalya Avseenko, whose photo was decorated not only with publications on freediving, became a notable cultural phenomenon.

Girl and whales

Perhaps the most impressive work of Natalia was immersion in the White Sea in the framework of research work on the study of communication tools and echolocation of beluga whales. In addition, the person's ability to stay in the extreme conditions of ice water was studied. Salt water freezes at lower values, so Natalia Avseenko spent more than ten minutes in an environment with a temperature of -2 degrees Celsius, thus setting a record of a person's stay in such conditions. An ordinary unprepared swimmer will freeze in a couple of minutes in ice water, however Natalia has undergone a ten-day adaptation course.

To capture this historical record in history, the documentary film "Ceiling" was directed, directed by Natalia Uglitskih. For a more vivid demonstration of her capabilities, Avseenko not only refused the wetsuit, but also dived with the beluga wholly without clothes-naked. The strikingly beautiful shots of a naked woman under the water became real hits.