Flavia Eberhard

Flavia Dias Eberhard, known as Flavia Eberhard (born September 2, 1976, in Criciuma, Santa Catarina), is a Brazilian free-diver, freediving instructor trainer, international fashion model, conservationist, and TV personality. She has nine freediving records including a South American Absolute Record on the discipline of free immersion.[1][2] Eberhard also works with underwater videography and underwater photography with Sea Dragons audiovisual and has presented documentaries for the TV and film festivals.

Career

Modeling

Flavia Eberhard was working as a professional model since the age of seventeen when she left Brazil to follow a successful modelling career. She modelled for various designers and participated in several campaigns in Brazil, her home country, and internationally. She has worked for magazines such as Vogue, Elle, Marie Claire, Claudia and worked for various designers such as Armani, Gucci and Versace besides many others. She has also worked for TV commercials such as Pakalolo and H&M. Eberhard still models internationally for fashion and as an underwater model.[3]

Freediving

Being brought up in Florianopolis island in Brazil, she was always practicing water sports from an early age such as surfing, windsurfing and bodyboarding. Her brother practiced spearfishing and since youth she was introduced through him to breath-hold games and practices, but it was later that she would pursue her professional freediving career. In 2004 she took her first diving course and felt passionate about being under the sea, continuing her education till becoming a technical diver. While based in London due to her modelling career in 2007 she was introduced to freediving and became a competitive freediver in 2009, the same year that she started teaching professionally. She since has nine records in total including a Brazilian Absolute Record (deepest between man and woman) and South American record. She has also won and participated in several competitions internationally representing Brazil. Flavia Eberhard is the only Brazilian freediving instructor professionally specialised in three of the most important freediving institutions SSI, as the only Brazilian Instructor Trainer, AIDA as a Master Instructor, and Apnea Total as a Master Instructor too.

Media work

Flavia Eberhard is a co-founder and partner of Sea Dragons audiovisual where she helps produce, film and photograph videos, some of which have participate of a short film festival Silently in Belgrade with the films Encounters in 2014 and Mabul in 2015.[4] Eberhard has presented a documentary for Brazilian TV Canal Off[5] about freediving in January 2015. She also writes and contributes in articles of magazines and a speaker in shows and conferences on the topic of freediving and underwater photography and videography.

Freediving records and titles[6][7]

April 2009 - Bizzy Blue Hole Competition-

May 2009 - Mini Comp Competition

June 2009- Blue Hole No More Competition

Sept 2009- Triple Depth Competition

Sept 2012 Little Blue hole Competition

Other titles

Besides the competitions, Flavia Eberhard is a yoga teacher and also an international freediving judge AIDA, a Technical Diver TDI and a first aid instructor (RRR) by SSI.

Awards

She has received awards as the Best Contributor and Pride of an Institution by the number of certified freedivers achieved and has taught and coached many freediving national record holders.

References

  1. ↑ "Aida Recordes". 2012.
  2. ↑ http://www.domomladine.org/filmovi/prvi-festival-kratkog-podvodnog-filma-necujno
  3. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLLot0kg6Ow
  4. ↑ http://www.domomladine.org/filmovi/prvi-festival-kratkog-podvodnog-filma-necujno/
  5. ↑ http://canaloff.globo.com/programacao/
  6. ↑ http://www.aidabrasil.com.br/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=37&Itemid=63
  7. ↑ http://www.aidabrasil.com.br/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=36&Itemid=62

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