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WHEN DAROS GRAY'S FAMILY MOVED FROM SCOTLAND TO SOUTH AFRICA THE YOUNGSTER FELL IN LOVE WITH THE SEA, DIVING WHENEVER HE COULD. NOW AN EXPERIENCED FREE-DIVER, THE 34 YEAR OLD LIKES NOTHING BETTER THAN TO HOLD HIS BREATH ...AND PLUNGE BELOW THE POLAR ICE CAP
By Samantha Booth
SCOTS free-diver Daros Gray spent much of his childhood in the seas off South Africa.
By the time he was a teenager, spear fishing, scuba diving and gathering crayfish among the wildlife were all second nature to him.
Even an attack by a Great White Shark was not enough to keep the young Daros out of the water.
But what possessed the 34-year-old, originally from Callander, to become the world's polar free-diving pioneer?
Now instead of enjoying the warm water and nautical delights of tropical seas around the world, the burly Scot likes nothing better than to dive to depths of up to 131ft underneath polar ice caps with no breathing equipment.
His most recent expedition took a team to Arctic Sweden to establish nine world records in incredibly dangerous conditions.
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Not only did he have to consider the normal hazards of free-diving, including the the dreaded black out that can happen to any free-diver as they head back to the surface - it happened to Daros on Loch Etive a few years ago causing his heart to stop for three and half minutes - he also had to think about the possibility of equipment freezing and the edges of ice holes collapsing.
He says: 'For me it is not about breaking or making records for glory's sake or even about the danger.
'I do what I do in the hope that I can help science in some way by finding out how a human body will respond to extreme conditions, although there is another aspect to it - which is about becoming one with the liquid around you.
'It is about going back to Mother Natur"
WHEN DAROS GRAY'S FAMILY MOVED FROM SCOTLAND TO SOUTH AFRICA THE YOUNGSTER FELL IN LOVE WITH THE SEA, DIVING WHENEVER HE COULD. NOW AN EXPERIENCED FREE-DIVER, THE 34 YEAR OLD LIKES NOTHING BETTER THAN TO HOLD HIS BREATH ...AND PLUNGE BELOW THE POLAR ICE CAP
By Samantha Booth
SCOTS free-diver Daros Gray spent much of his childhood in the seas off South Africa.
By the time he was a teenager, spear fishing, scuba diving and gathering crayfish among the wildlife were all second nature to him.
Even an attack by a Great White Shark was not enough to keep the young Daros out of the water.
But what possessed the 34-year-old, originally from Callander, to become the world's polar free-diving pioneer?
Now instead of enjoying the warm water and nautical delights of tropical seas around the world, the burly Scot likes nothing better than to dive to depths of up to 131ft underneath polar ice caps with no breathing equipment.
His most recent expedition took a team to Arctic Sweden to establish nine world records in incredibly dangerous conditions.
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Not only did he have to consider the normal hazards of free-diving, including the the dreaded black out that can happen to any free-diver as they head back to the surface - it happened to Daros on Loch Etive a few years ago causing his heart to stop for three and half minutes - he also had to think about the possibility of equipment freezing and the edges of ice holes collapsing.
He says: 'For me it is not about breaking or making records for glory's sake or even about the danger.
'I do what I do in the hope that I can help science in some way by finding out how a human body will respond to extreme conditions, although there is another aspect to it - which is about becoming one with the liquid around you.
'It is about going back to Mother Natur"
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