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Takes our breath away

Hundreds of National Geographic Theatre pass-holders took Jana Strain up on her offer on Wednesday, when the Canadian free-diving champion made a personal appearances at the first of four preview screenings of Ocean Men...

Deep-sea diving in IMAX

Deep water endurance diver Jana Strain gives insights into the sport before the Jan. 13 and 14 (6 and 7:30 p.m.) showings of Ocean Men, Extreme Dive at the National Geographic IMAX Theatre

New Record and Bronze Medal for Jana Strain

Jana Strain set another Pan American record and claimed a bronze medal with a strong dive to 54M (177 feet), completed in two minutes and thirteen seconds. ...

Jana Strain Bronze Medal Canadian Record

AIDA Freedive World Champioship, Jana Strain achieved a depth of 54m (177 feet) during the womans CNF finals....(This is a video made by the hard wroking safety team, who put it up on the internet the same day as the competition!)

Taking the plunge

But never one to back down from a challenge, the free-spirited Strain, known for her bright eyes and a large mermaid tattoo that covers the majority of her back, jumped in head first...

How do you know when you've gone far enough?

Do you know how much to give and how far to go so that you can break records, change your life or transform the world while taking into account that you need to know and save exactly the amount of juice that will get you back home?

Yet Another Pan-American Record for Jana Strain

Jana is the 5th woman in the world to swim to this depth without the use of fins, while holding her breath.

The Interview: Jana Strain, Freediving

Freediving is one part physical, one part lungs and, perhaps most importantly, one part mental. If I tell myself I can%u2019t, then I can%u2019t. If I tell myself I can, then I will.

Swimmer puts a strain on competition

Strain told the Daily Press Monday. 'It was an amazing feeling after I completed what I had set out to do, I could then relax and watch the other athletes.'

Santa Monica's Jana Strain sets freediving record in Denmark

Jana Strain set a new Pan American Women's Freediving Record with an underwater swim of 181 meters (594 feet) on one breath.

Jana Strain Sets New Pan American Freediving Record

Jana Strain continues her rise to the top in Freediving. The record was set in Dynamic No Fins with a swim to 116 meters (380 feet) in two minutes and ten seconds.

Jana Strain Sets New Pan American Freediving Record

Jana Strain set a new Pan American Women's Freediving Record with a no fins swim to 51 meters (167 feet) in Dean's Blue Hole. This is the best performance by a woman in the Western Hemisphere in almost four years...

Apnea's Angels: The New Faces in Women Competitive Freediving

No Charlie in the title, but Freediving instead as it is the drive and the passion that brings Francine Kreiss (France), Jana Strain (Canada) and Maccarena Benitez (Chile), to the competitive arena. I wanted to narrow my search to three women that I believed to be the most representative of that new generation.

The Americas

Five men and one woman will represent the Americas at this year's Vertical Blue. They are all record-holders, past and present, greedy for new depths and blue glory.

Jana Strain Claims Top Honors as Blossoming Freediver

Santa Monica's Jana Strain was recently named the best new female freediver of 2008. It's the highest honor someone new to the sport of breath-hold diving can achieve...

Jana Strain Smashes National Freediving Dynamic Record

Jana Strain set a new Canadian and North American Women's Freediving Record with a swim of 171 meters (560 feet) in two minutes and eighteen seconds at Pepperdine University.