This guy can hold his breath WAY longer than you can!

[GasX]

HERE is a pretty cool video of a guy "base jumping" underwater.

 

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[Slimline]

No Effin way I could do that nor would I want to. I am perfectly fine not testing the limits of my lung capacity 100+ feet underwater. Not to mention that darkness over the edge would freak me out.

 

[Renob]

wow that is awesome!!!!

 

[chusteczka]

That is an impressive display. It amazes me how he seems unconcerned about air.

However, will compress as he goes deep, then decompress as he ascends. It is the depth that allows him to hold on to a single breath of air for so long.

 

[Locut0s]

Fantastic video thanks. Is that a diving weight on his back? At first I didn't see anything on him and wondered how he became negatively buoyant. Also although impressove the video isn't one shot so it's hard to tell how long he is really holding his breath. The video is about 4+ mins long. However the world record holders for breath holding under water is the 16-17 min range!!!:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Sietas

 

[thepd7]

very cool. Apparently he does it without changing ballast at all which is pretty incredible. He didn't go to the bottom of that hole though, it's about 900 feet from what I remember.

 

[zinfamous]

read a pretty cool article some months ago about the competitive free diving community--those that compete for the record free-diving depth. Those folks are no joke!

 

[Locut0s]

very cool. Apparently he does it without changing ballast at all which is pretty incredible. He didn't go to the bottom of that hole though, it's about 900 feet from what I remember.

Any idea where this is? That hole is scary awesome!

 

[AndroidVageta]

It amazes me that he was able to move about so much and hold his breath that long. I mean, I can hold mine for a good bit, but its when I start moving around that that air quickly becomes used up.

Pretty f-ing cool though, thats for sure!

 

[GasX]

The weight is to make him negatively buoyant. As he descends, the wetsuit compresses and he becomes REALLY negatively buoyant...

 

[Savij]

Search for the vid on other sites. It's different clips edited together to make one scene. They freely admit that it's not one take or one breath.

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

The fact that he was blowing bubbles as he hit the surface kind of makes me think he took a breath of compressed air before he fired up to the top...

Cool video... but I don't think it's really what it's represented to be...

 

[Old Hippie]

read a pretty cool article some months ago about the competitive free diving community--those that compete for the record free-diving depth. Those folks are no joke!

Same here and there was a TV special on those crazy dudes.

IIRC some have died pushing the depth limits.

 

[Lonyo]

Any idea where this is? That hole is scary awesome!

It might be Dean's Blue Hole, Long Island-Bahamas.

That's just a guess though and has nothing to do with the fact it's mentioned at the end of the video.

 

[Locut0s]

It might be Dean's Blue Hole, Long Island-Bahamas.

That's just a guess though and has nothing to do with the fact it's mentioned at the end of the video.

Haha lol, ok thanks got me there. I watched it right up to near the end but not all the way.

 

[hellfreeze]

Awesome video!

 

[GasX]

The fact that he was blowing bubbles as he hit the surface kind of makes me think he took a breath of compressed air before he fired up to the top...

When you hold your breath for a while do you absorb the air or do you exhale?

 

[bignateyk]

He probably just got oxygen from the camera guy at the bottom or along the way. They cut away from him plenty of times. Still pretty cool though, but not from an oxygen holding standpoint.

 

[eits]

he holds one of the top free-dive depths in the world. he's actually holding his breath for that long in the video.

 

[purbeast0]

marked for home.

 

[GasX]

He probably just got oxygen from the camera guy at the bottom or along the way. They cut away from him plenty of times. Still pretty cool though, but not from an oxygen holding standpoint.

That is more dangerous than you might think. I guarantee he did it all by breathholding.

 

[skyking]

you must release the air as you surface from that deep, or you will force an embolism.
If you have to do an emergency ascent from a scuba dive you let all the air out as you near the surface.

 

[bignateyk]

you must release the air as you surface from that deep, or you will force an embolism.
If you have to do an emergency ascent from a scuba dive you let all the air out as you near the surface.

How was he able to descend without any kind of ballast or use of his own force if he had air in his lungs to begin with?

From the video it looks like he just dropped like a rock. If he had air in his lungs he would have naturally floated, and he would have had to swim down, or use ballast. I don't think he did either.

 

[spidey07]

you must release the air as you surface from that deep, or you will force an embolism.
If you have to do an emergency ascent from a scuba dive you let all the air out as you near the surface.

That's only because you're breathing compressed air at depth. You don't have to release anything on a free dive like this because all the air in your lungs is still 1 ATM.

Pretty impressive video, I found it unusual you didn't see him equalize his ears much which he would have to do. Also notice no weight belt when he ascends, of course.

Also what would be so scary is at that depth you are no longer buoyant. Because of the pressure you're actually denser than water and would naturally sink instead of naturally rising/floating. So the deeper you go, the faster you would sink.

That he did it without fins is what's really freaky.

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bignateyk,

He had a weight belt on, you can see the weight at the small of his back.