Find Your
Next Comp
Every competition on one calendar. AIDA world championships, CMAS events, national contests, local pool meets. Dates, disciplines, registration deadlines, and results. Actively maintained, not a static list.
What Competitions
Look Like
A Sport Built on Measurable Performance
Freediving competitions are straightforward. Athletes announce the depth, distance, or time they intend to achieve. Then they perform. Judges verify the result and apply penalties for protocol violations. Your score is your performance minus penalties. No subjectivity, no style points, no artistic impression. Just you, the water, and a number.
The Announcement System
Before competing, you submit an announcement — the performance you plan to achieve. This is usually done 12 to 24 hours before your attempt. Announcements set the competition order: deeper announcements go later. You can announce conservatively and still set a record, but you can't announce deeper than you're prepared for. It's a game of honesty with yourself.
Pool vs. Depth vs. Open Water
Pool events happen in a 25m or 50m pool — static apnea, dynamic with fins, dynamic no fins. Depth events take place in open water — constant weight, free immersion, constant weight no fins. Some competitions run both. World championships usually span multiple days with different disciplines each day. Local comps might run a single discipline in one afternoon.
AIDA & CMAS
Two Federations, Different Rules
AIDA International is the larger federation with more recognized world records and a longer competition history. CMAS, the World Confederation of Underwater Activities, also sanctions freediving events with slightly different rules and record categories. Both track national, continental, and world records. Both run annual world championships. The disciplines overlap but the protocols differ in details — surface protocols, penalty systems, and how performances are validated.
National Federations & Local Comps
Below the international level, national federations run their own circuits. France, Italy, Japan, the Philippines, Turkey — each has a national championship scene. Then there are local pool meets, club competitions, and informal events organized by dive centers. These are where most competitive freedivers start. Small fields, familiar faces, low stakes, real experience. The problem is finding them: they're announced on local Facebook groups, federation websites that haven't been updated since 2019, or word of mouth at the dive center.
Records & Rankings
National records, continental records, world records — across every discipline and every federation. Knowing the current benchmarks matters. Not because you're necessarily chasing them, but because they anchor your sense of where you stand. A 50m CWT means something different when you know the national record is 85m versus 110m. DEEPLINK tracks records across federations and disciplines so you can see the landscape at a glance.
How to Find &
Register
One Calendar, Every Event
AIDA has their calendar on their website. CMAS has theirs. National federations maintain their own. Local pool comps get posted on Instagram stories that disappear in 24 hours. DEEPLINK aggregates all of it. Filter by country, discipline, federation, or date range. See every upcoming competition near you or browse the full global schedule. No more checking five different websites and hoping you didn't miss something.
All the Details on One Page
Dates, venue, disciplines, entry fees, registration deadline, and who's already signed up. Everything you need to decide if a competition is worth entering. No hunting through PDFs on federation websites. No guessing whether that pool comp still has spots left. One page with all the information, kept up to date as organizers publish changes.
Never Miss a Registration Deadline
You wanted to enter that event. Registration closed yesterday. You didn't get a reminder. You just saw "full" when you finally checked the federation website. With DEEPLINK, you get notified before deadlines close. Direct link to the official registration page — each federation handles their own sign-up process, we just make sure you don't miss the window.
Submit Missing Competitions
The calendar is actively maintained, but no single database catches everything. If you know about a comp that's not listed, submit it. Organizers can add their events directly. The community helps fill the gaps, especially for local events that never make it to the big federation calendars. New competitions are added within days of announcement, and results are updated after events finish.
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