What an amazing and beautiful vehicle the human body is!
Free immersion is a strange freedive discipline. Pulling yourself down, then up, a rope to depth. More or less pointless, but inexplicably fun.
Easier to hit depth than swimming down. Upper body has smaller muscles, less oxygen gets burnt. The way back to safety is a series of grab-and-yanks, each tug propelling you further as you escape pressure and buoyancy tugs you upwards.
William Trubridge is a maniac. Among the best freedivers in the world. Arguably the best, since Herbert Nitsch’s accident during a no limits dive in 2012. Trubridge is a zero body fat, yoga maniac, aquatic animal.
Today Trubridge broke his own record in free immersion, hitting 124 meters (406.8 feet for those of us who can’t think in metric) during the Vertical Blue comp at Dean’s Blue Hole in the Bahamas.
Absolutely nuts.
There’s no video out, yet. But he went 122 meters down and back a few days ago during the same comp and they put out a nicely edited clip of it.
Lung packing on the surface, POV shots from safety divers. Utter relaxation as he goes limp and freefalls. Surrounding darkness while he grabs the tag and turns around at the bottom. The beginning of motor control loss as he nears the surface, his brain struggling to work its way through safety protocol once he’s made it. Powerful stuff.
Amazing what our bodies can do, given enough effort, drive, and dedication.
two and a half lengths is not a life’s work horizontally or vertically
I didn’t read that far, but if he found something to live for and came back, I guess that’s almost five lengths
Hey Seaman, Yo Momma type insults will only stay if they are highly original and humorous. Stock standard cock-gobbling insults get chucked straight in the trash box. Cheers!
Could’ve used this guy when I droped my sunglasses on the boat to Lombok!
real talk
Bit of a samba at the end there – lucky not to get disqualified. Awesome job.
Did he make it??!! I fell asleep…
You went to deep! Pull out. Pull out!!
Don’t quite understand as sport but is the cable pulling him down and he pulls himself up??? depth is fucking crazy but appears that going down there is a tag following so am assuming he not making depth himself?? please explain Rory
No cable pulling him down on descent. He passed the point of neutral buoyancy (about 10 metres with wetsuit) and ‘sunk’ into negative buoyancy………….he’s sinking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…
Thanks will check it out – understand neutral buoyancy however when you watch the video looks like a “tag” is following him down on the rope/cable. I watched it few times.
not my thing but impressive feat nonetheless
There’s a carabiner tethering the diver to the line for safety. A counter ballast system is used to retrieve them in case of blackout at depth.
Here’s more about it:
http://martin-gk.blogspot.c…
Here’s an interesting piece by Trubridge arguing against their use:
https://www.deeperblue.com/…
Ok cheers have look at links later – the guy is a freak
isn’t the rope assist a bit weird? thought they used to do it and have to swim back up?
It’s definitely kind of weird. No real useful application. But it’s fun.
There are a bunch of different events/disciplines. Fins, no fins, constant weight, variable weight, etc.
yeah don’t get me wrong i love diving its super fun like surfing, but its like i don’t want to see who can get the biggest wave using a rope, respect the paddle guys way more.
maybe this guys is like a surfer using a slow boat to whip in , not going to get as deep as the anchor drop guys but still using assist to look good
Worst sport ever. Just put a gun in your mouth and be done with it.
Worse than bodybuilding? If you’re somewhere with warm clear water freediving’s really cool!
It seems to me like the sporting equivalent of doing a nang while driving and trying to tell your girlfriend you’re still alright.
…the fuck is a nang?
Nitrous.
Sometimes I wish I was an occa so I could say cool stuff like that
You only live once, you may as well just start using the terms you like.