Underwater base jumping

[masterswimmer]

Outrageous:


Underwater base jumping

 

[cowfish]

Cool video. Nice bit of editing.

Hard to judge the depth, but if you went as deep as the vid seems to be implying you would get a nice case of lung over-expansion (need to exhale on the way up), maybe the bends (ascent was too fast) and most likely dead from the aforementioned.

 

[beerfish]

Cool video. Nice bit of editing.

Hard to judge the depth, but if you went as deep as the vid seems to be implying you would get a nice case of lung over-expansion (need to exhale on the way up), maybe the bends (ascent was too fast) and most likely dead from the aforementioned.

Actually, this was a free dive. The bends occur when nitrogen from breathing compressed air expands during ascent. This is not a concern during a free dive.

Lung expansion is not an issue either, and is another danger of breathing while under water. If a dive is done in one breath, the air in the lungs remains constant and expands only to the size that they were when the initial breath was taken.

The deepest free dive on record is nearly 700 feet.

 

[THEDLO]

The deepest free dive on record is nearly 700 feet.

:Yikes: thats amazing! and yea the video editing was fresh!

 

[cowfish]

I stand corrected. I find it amazing that someone can hold their breath for that long.

 

[ming]

Wow, I find it amazing that he can sink so fast without any weights, and with a wetsuit which should make him more buoyant! Although the wetsuit looks thin, but I don't think I can sink that fast regardless

 

[beerfish]

Wow, I find it amazing that he can sink so fast without any weights, and with a wetsuit which should make him more buoyant! Although the wetsuit looks thin, but I don't think I can sink that fast regardless

He has a little bit of weight on, you can see if at the beginning. As a wetsuit gets deeper it compresses the neoprene cells and loses buoyancy.

 

[smoq]

I saw this video some weeks ago. It is truly amazing, but it's not true unfortunately. The guy's name is Guillaume Nery and he indeed reached the bottom of the blue hole, but not in one dive. The video has been mounted from several of his dives in there so it looks like one dive. There's no way to reach that deep without fins. The Dean's Blue Hole is 663' deep, the world record without fins is 288', so go figure. Still an impressive video though

 

[jerl77]

what is wrong with people damm wish it was me :splitspin

 

[Alex]

impressive video, regardless.

 

[masterswimmer]

When I first saw the video my initial reaction was that it had to be 'shopped'. If it were real it would have been an amazing feat, one that I would have wanted to be one continuous shot to prove the descent and then ascent.

I am aware of the free diving abilities of some people and therefore it did make me think two and three times about its possible validity.

When he was 'standing' over the hole at the beginning, looking down into it, that was one of the most ominous, frightening abysses I've ever seen. Great bit of filming though.

swimmer

 

[ming]

He has a little bit of weight on, you can see if at the beginning. As a wetsuit gets deeper it compresses the neoprene cells and loses buoyancy.

Ah, I must have missed it. Looks like a 3 pound weight.

 

[SIReefer]

Wow!!!