Ashley Futral Chapman Email & Phone Number

Ashley has been teaching freediving with her husband, Ren, in NC and throughout the Caribbean from their sailboat since 2009.  They spend most summers back home in NC where courses include tips on safety, technique, spearfishing and diving with sharks!   Winter and spring months are spent abroad focusing instruction in the Bahamas, Grand Cayman, Roatan Honduras and the Florida Keys.  Ashley has earned 3 world records and 10 national records in the sport to date focusing on arguably the purest and most challenging discipline, constant weight no fins. She has swam down to 67 meters/223 feet on one breath of air without fins or assistance from pulling a line. Her deepest dive maxes out at 87 meters/285 feet with the use of a monofin! Ashley has a breathold of 5 minutes and 40 seconds. Evolve Freediving has been featured in Coastal Living Magazine, National Geographic Weekend Radio, The Daily Telegraph, Wilma Magazine, Lumina Magazine, Wrightsville Beach MagazineSpecialties include competitive freediving; freedive education and guest lecturing on the topics of freediving, live aboard sailing, and managing performance anxiety.

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  Company Owner, Instructor

  Evolve Freediving

  2009 - Present - Wilmington, North Carolina Area And Abroad

  Freediving (or free-diving) is a form of underwater diving that does not involve the use of scuba gear or other external breathing devices, but rather relies on a diver's ability to hold his or her breath until resurfacing.Examples include breath-hold spear fishing, freedive photography, apnea competitions, and to some degree, snorkeling. Evolve Freediving World Record Holder Instructors, teaches multiple Performance Freediving’s courses and offers freediving training to small groups of all ages in multiple (sometimes exotic) locations.

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  University Of North Carolina At Wilmington

  Environmental Science