Freediving 2003: Emma Farrell
Posted By Emma Farrell on 8 December 2003
The best and worst times in my freediving life happened this year in exactly the same place, about two weeks apart. The first was professional,the second personal.
At the end of April I was contacted by an advertising agency that needed a female freediver for a face cream TV advert. She had to be tall, have brown hair and be able to monofin. Well, there aren't many of them in the UK and I ticked all the boxes. The idea for the advert was that a woman had to freedive deep into the ocean and then swim towards the camera and flash a smile. The swimming would be done by a freediver and the flashing by a model.
I got to the audition to find that there were just me and 'uber babe', a thin, tanned, professional swimmer from Sweden. Faced with this vision of athletic perfection, I thought there was no hope and I even lent her my monofin so she could glide up and down looking 'beautiful ja?'
Imagine my surprise then when I actually got another call asking me if I wanted the job! As my face was not to be shown, I got a contract which contained the words 'Body Double' and 'Emma Farrell' in the same sentence, a fact that caused barely contained laughs from all my friends when I proudly showed it to them. I was due to be flown to Cyprus the next week for a four day shoot. How glamorous could my life be?
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