Even if you're not a diver this is an incredible video! World Champion freediver Guillaume Nery "base jumps" into a blue hole at the bottom of the ocean.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQITWbAaDx0&playnext_from=TL&videos=NgzO1DSOJgE

[Edited on June 1, 2010 at 11:09 PM. Reason : .]

6/1/2010 11:08:24 PM

holy hell that was awesome

6/1/2010 11:15:52 PM

i'd be scared of some very large aminal lurking in the dark

6/1/2010 11:17:32 PM

how in the fuck do you become a "world champion" at falling???

6/1/2010 11:17:47 PM

that must be a heavy fucking wetsuit

6/1/2010 11:18:26 PM

That is pretty cool, just for the fact that he can hold his breath for so long.

[Edited on June 1, 2010 at 11:21 PM. Reason : eh]

6/1/2010 11:20:49 PM

how in the hell did he hold his breath that long?

6/1/2010 11:21:13 PM

that is just amazing.

6/1/2010 11:21:18 PM

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"how in the fuck do you become a "world champion" at falling???"

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He's a freediver.

6/1/2010 11:21:40 PM

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"that must be a heavy fucking wetsuit"

He's got like a 10lb weight on his belt. After a certain depth you become negatively bouyant anyways and just sink to the bottom.

6/1/2010 11:24:14 PM

very cool!

6/1/2010 11:24:26 PM

sweet video indeed.

i'm sure he had scuba guys with extra regulators on hand for the purpose of the video shoot. what i'm wondering is how he managed to keep himself equalized throughout the extreme changes in depth.

6/1/2010 11:26:47 PM

They use techniques such as hard and quick intake of air at the end of the inhale to increase lung capacity. It takes years of conditioning to even begin diving like this.

6/1/2010 11:26:56 PM

I would love to be able to do that.

6/1/2010 11:35:38 PM

^^ Yea. It's like a controlled hyperventilating. There's also a warmup technique that you do for like 10 minutes which slows your heart way down, then you hyperventilate a little, take a huge breath and dive under. The pro freedivers have stretched out their lungs, abdominal muscles and intercostal muscles over time and have an amazing lung capacity. They also have the mind strength to push their bodies through spasms and tremmors as they get the urge to breathe.

6/1/2010 11:42:28 PM

wonder if his watch is waterproof up to 100m?

6/2/2010 12:09:38 AM

Better be more waterproof than that. According to the info on youtube, the depth of the hole is 202m.

6/2/2010 12:11:42 AM

Sending me to a youtube video that has opening credits is an easy way to get me to give up and close the window.

6/2/2010 12:11:50 AM

you, sir, are missing out in this case

6/2/2010 12:12:26 AM

Recent research suggest that prolonged freediving causes irreparable brain damage.

6/2/2010 12:32:41 AM

Of course its pretty impressive that he freedives so far down, but then he climbs the wall back out. I saw a rope in some of the shots and figured he'd use that to come up, but nnooooo...

6/2/2010 3:45:30 AM

He would have had to of held his breath for at least 20 mins or something for this, that is ridiculous.

6/2/2010 11:05:41 AM

That was pretty awesome.

6/2/2010 11:32:43 AM

awesome youtube comment on there

Quote :

"Is it? true that smoking weed makes your lungs bigger?"

6/2/2010 11:39:54 AM

^ well, is it? true

6/2/2010 12:01:07 PM

I think the ascent was even cooler then the descent.

6/2/2010 12:07:23 PM

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"Uploader Comments guillaumenery 13 minutes ago hello everyone, thanks again for all your comments... To clarify: this movie is A FICTION AND AN ARTISTIC PROJECT. I don't claim to have reached the bottom of the hole (202m) without rope and fins, as the world record in no-fins discipline is 95m.. We made this movie to show another approach in? freediving videos. We wanted to express the strenght of the elements water-earth-air and the sensations of freedom, harmony, exploration"

6/2/2010 1:48:53 PM

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"base jumping at Dean's Blue Hole "

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"this movie is A FICTION AND AN ARTISTIC PROJECT. I don't claim to have reached the bottom of the hole (202m) without rope and fins, as the world record in no-fins discipline is 95m.. "

[Edited on June 2, 2010 at 3:32 PM. Reason : .]

6/2/2010 3:27:29 PM

It may be a fictional video, but he still set the world record at 113 meters. That's 339 feet! Freakin' Incredible.

6/2/2010 7:01:36 PM

that dude.........


.....is a badass

10/10

6/2/2010 7:06:08 PM

he's REALLY hot too

6/2/2010 7:10:49 PM

that's what I was referring to

6/2/2010 7:12:32 PM

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" It may be a fictional video, but he still set the world record at 113 meters. That's 339 feet! Freakin' Incredible. "

370 actually. goddamn!

6/2/2010 7:20:26 PM

^yea, I just rounded a meter to 3ft. Fuck the metric system, this is ummerrica!

6/2/2010 7:34:44 PM

Gah can I be a mermaid now?

6/2/2010 8:01:18 PM

3:05 no weight belt
3:09 weight belt

6/2/2010 8:24:02 PM

6/2/2010 8:26:07 PM

inorite?

6/2/2010 8:34:30 PM