[quote]Dustin wrote:
So this guy holds his breath for over minutes and doesn’t “equalize” (at least I never saw him do it) while swimming down the hole?
That’s impressive.[/quote]
That’s what I was thinking. Amazing lung capacity and mental discipline.
I’m guessing the cameraman had a tank and he might have gotten a breath between the diving shot and the shot on the floor, but still. Ridiculous.
deep inhale
deep exhale
That is insane if he did all that in one take. I figured he was just doing the first part just standing there, then getting some oxygen. Then diving down deep, then getting some more oxygen at the bottom, and then climbing back up.
But now that people are saying he holds a world record in this… i’m not so sure he needed to do all of that.
[quote]jahall wrote:
deep inhale
deep exhale
That is insane if he did all that in one take. I figured he was just doing the first part just standing there, then getting some oxygen. Then diving down deep, then getting some more oxygen at the bottom, and then climbing back up.
But now that people are saying he holds a world record in this… i’m not so sure he needed to do all of that.[/quote]
For this video, bolded^, is impossible. If he inhaled air at depth, then held his breath while he ascended, he’d have overexpanded both lungs. He could take a breath from a regulator on a tank at depth, but he would need to be constantly (regularly) exhaling bubbles to equalize his lungs.
Sorry fellas, but I must comment on this again.
How the fuck is that nearly possible? I’m absolutely NOT doubting it. I just can’t wrap my head around how incredible this is. The guy’s a fricking beast.
If I could do this, my life would be more than complete. I say this because I used to have a fear of water. I’ve barely trained myself to get my head underwater and even then, something weird sets in, and I’m resurfacing 15 seconds later.
Viral marketing gentlemen.
[quote]Sick Rick wrote:
[quote]Magicpunch wrote:
This guy, Guillame Nery, holds the world record for the deepest free-dive at 113 meters. Which means, presumably, that he has to climb that 113m back up?!
How is that remotely possible?![/quote]
He has to swim that back up, yes.
Sick genetics, unimaginable lung capacity and absolute breathing control make it possible.
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But where did the feat end? When he hit bottom? If he took a hit of air from the camera man before he started the jump (mugged for the camera bunch) then at the bottom right before heading back up, it is quite do-able…
Lots of camera angles = lots of takes = who the heck knows how much he did?
does look kewl though.
– jj
This is absolutely one of the most amazing things I have ever seen.
There is no hit of air guys, he did not take a breath on the way down, on the bottom or on the way up. Granted, there might be some divers who will give him oxygen for emergency purposes.
But he did it in one breath.
IT IS POSSIBLE. They teach weekend seminars for how a regular joe like you and me can hold your breath for at least 4 minutes.
It is very impressive and incredible. However, if it’s true I can only think of 1 thing…brain damage
Click the link and read the youtube description.
No one has even been to the bottom of that hole.
It’s not completely true.
Freediver’s breathtaking plunge into abyss part real, part fiction
By: Pete Thomas, GrindTV.com
World freediving champion Guillaume Nery had for some time wanted to establish a link between his sport – which requires diving to incredible depths on a single breath – and BASE jumping, which involves free-falling and parachuting from stationary objects.
Thanks to exceptional camerawork by fellow French freediver Julie Gautier, Nery has succeeded in breathtaking fashion.
The pair took advantage of a recent visit to Dean’s Blue Hole in the Bahamas, in Gautier’s words, “to make a short movie.”
In the movie, Nery steals a breath, marches downward across a sandy moonscape to the edge of the world’s deepest underwater sink hole (638 feet). He then falls forward, like a BASE-jumper from a cliff, and begins a head-first descent.
He seems to fall through space, arms at his sides, hair flowing behind his mask, body silhouetted by the fading light above, until reaching what appears to be the bottom of the blue hole. Nery then springs upward and scales the sinkhole’s walls like a rock-climber in zero-gravity, ultimately reaching the surface – and stealing another breath – after almost four minutes underwater.
The problem is, Guillaume did not reach the bottom and did not mean to imply that he did. (At least one report stated he did just that. Others suggested he and Gautier filmed this in one dive during actual competition.)
“I never pretended to reach the bottom. It’s impossible and no one will ever do it,” Guillaume said via email, emphasizing that the movie was an artistic creation – “a fiction movie” – that took four afternoons of diving “to get all the shots.”
“We just wanted to show another approach of freediving,” he explained. “For me freediving means to be in harmony with the elements, it means freedom, it means exploring the unknown. We tried to express this feeling in one video.”
Gautier, a French freediving champion and model, said on her blog: “Our goal was to emphasize on aesthetic images and innovative camera moves.”
Did they accomplish their goals? You be the judge.
[quote]TheBodyGuard wrote:
Freediver’s breathtaking plunge into abyss part real, part fiction
By: Pete Thomas, GrindTV.com
World freediving champion Guillaume Nery had for some time wanted to establish a link between his sport – which requires diving to incredible depths on a single breath – and BASE jumping, which involves free-falling and parachuting from stationary objects.
Thanks to exceptional camerawork by fellow French freediver Julie Gautier, Nery has succeeded in breathtaking fashion.
The pair took advantage of a recent visit to Dean’s Blue Hole in the Bahamas, in Gautier’s words, “to make a short movie.”
In the movie, Nery steals a breath, marches downward across a sandy moonscape to the edge of the world’s deepest underwater sink hole (638 feet). He then falls forward, like a BASE-jumper from a cliff, and begins a head-first descent.
He seems to fall through space, arms at his sides, hair flowing behind his mask, body silhouetted by the fading light above, until reaching what appears to be the bottom of the blue hole. Nery then springs upward and scales the sinkhole’s walls like a rock-climber in zero-gravity, ultimately reaching the surface – and stealing another breath – after almost four minutes underwater.
The problem is, Guillaume did not reach the bottom and did not mean to imply that he did. (At least one report stated he did just that. Others suggested he and Gautier filmed this in one dive during actual competition.)
“I never pretended to reach the bottom. It’s impossible and no one will ever do it,” Guillaume said via email, emphasizing that the movie was an artistic creation – “a fiction movie” – that took four afternoons of diving “to get all the shots.”
“We just wanted to show another approach of freediving,” he explained. “For me freediving means to be in harmony with the elements, it means freedom, it means exploring the unknown. We tried to express this feeling in one video.”
Gautier, a French freediving champion and model, said on her blog: “Our goal was to emphasize on aesthetic images and innovative camera moves.”
Did they accomplish their goals? You be the judge.
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x1million this video is amazing, everything flows so well together, Genius video makes me want to direct 
Yea - whatever the particulars are, it was awesome.
I felt strange watching that. breathes deep
Stupid question regarding buoyancy etc - he seems to fall quite quickly. Is he packing some extra weight or can the human body actually sink that quickly?
He’s got a weight belt on. The block on his lower back is a 5lb weight.