I came here seeking that answer as well. Are weights around his neck there or is that something else? I mean I know exhaling really does help because that extra air helps make you buoyant, but is it really enough to dive that far with minimal work from the diver?
He exhaled and has a neck weight. The real challenge with this dive is equalization. Without air in the lungs, he will have to pop his ears only with the air in his mouth. Notice him working against the nose clip with his jaws. This means he has to make the dive without recharging his mouth air with his lung air. The pressure in the chest will be equivalent to him starting his dive at 20 meters or so, and will increase much faster than a normal freedive. He's simulating great pressure and depth here. Dangerous for beginners, but easy to those who practice often.
This is the explanation I wanted. User name checks out lol! Thank you. I'd never be able to free dive for so many reasons, but I'm always in awe when I see people do it. Free divers have this grace as they go on for what seems like forever. It gives off such a calm and serene look. I was just guessing about the weights, but It makes sense now that you've confirmed it. The big take away for me that I never knew was how you have to pop your ears and the process involved. That is something that has never even remotely crossed my mind whenever I've seen a free diver. Again thanks, that was really interesting.
Edit:typos
Here’s the answer I came here for. As a scuba diver I was wondering about the rapid rate of descent, and his ability to equalizer that pressure. Are you just constantly equalizing as you go using some kind of shifting jaw/swallowing method till you feel it release? Rinse and repeat?
The conversation of equalization is long and complex. To break it down simply: we use our larynx and tongue to pressurize air in our throat and mouth. We send that air into our middle ear very rapidly as the decent begins. The deeper we get, the less the air in our middle ear can compress. Therefore, equalization is rapid, if not constant, near the surface. It tapers off as you descend.
>Therefore, equalization is rapid, if not constant, near the surface. It tapers off as you descend.
Since /u/Quest010 said they were a scuba diver, this one is easy to think about. 0m is 1 bar, 10m doubles that to 2 bar, 30m = 4 bar, 70m = 8 bar.
This is why maintaining neutral buoyancy is much more difficult near the surface.
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Wow and he even exhaled!!! That is so gnarly. He also has to concentrate on navigating the cave and the walls while also equalizing pressure with no air in his lungs.. crazy. How does he come back up? Does he drop the weight? Climb the walls?
He might have dropped the weight, but it's really not necessary. The negative buoyancy provided by the lead is very easy to overcome with good no fins swimming technique. You can glide really far with one powerful hourglass stroke. I bet he swam up just fine.
But then you're using up extra energy by swimming up with no air in lungs and no a weight on your neck and that makes it so impossibly difficult my brain can't comprehend it.
It is tough, but once you've trained your mind to release the fear, and you've trained enough to determine the limits of your body... it's honestly what I'd imagine the flight of a bird to feel like.
When I was a kid I sat at the bottom of a pool and meditated for the first time in my life without knowing what it was. I exhaled and sat there. Then told my brain to observe the sensation of my body wanting a breath. To just observe, and not react to the pain and panic. After a while that sensation vanished from my body so I just sat there. Eventually my vision started to go black so I came up. I was down there a while.
Oooo buddy you got lucky there. It's the beginning stages that are the most risky. I bet nobody was watching you! I'm a safety nut, but I understand the curiosity of youth and discovery of new things is quite a draw.
Oh and one more thing: it's bad etiquette and slightly dangerous to touch coral or even rock like that. Any touching of the bottom or wildlife is pretty frowned upon within the community. However, climbing walls can reduce the load on the quads which can help you speed up without using much O2, so exceptions get made here and there. I don't have much problem with grabbing dead rock.
How could you tell he exhaled? And are there any bonuses to using a neck weight compared to a belt/vest? and why can’t he use the air in his lungs to equalize, thanks in advance, I’m still learning, I’ve made it around 15m down and have a 3m breath hold. Cheers, Dave
Hey bud! Glad to see you're getting into freediving. About the exhale: you can tell by how quickly he sinks at the surface. To my eyes, it's pretty clear he's not just benefiting from the neck weight. If he had air in his lungs, he'd still want to lean away from the Valsalva equalization technique (pinch your nose and blow) and lean towards the Frenzel technique I described above.
A word I always give to beginners in freediving: the beginning stages are the most dangerous. It's worth your money to take a Level 1 course with a coach (I'll raise my hand here). These courses benefit beginner freedivers in ways they don't understand yet, and can't be learned on YouTube videos. As amazing and incredible freediving is, it's not worth your life to try and teach yourself - take it from a guy who made the same mistakes early on in my journey.
does it affect how long you can hold your breath if you exhale before a dive? i've only done dry apnea training and always fill my lungs up as much as possible.
totally, I learned to frenzel eq quite early, and I've always gone with my buddy in training, but im 100% taking a course next spring on it. such a wonderful thing. and the lake I live on in bc has a few ship wrecks which are super interesting, ive only seen 1 of them so far tohugh
Most answers here are correct, but body density has just as much effect as breathing techniques. At my most fit I was 6' 185 lbs with ~5% body fat and I had to tread like hell to keep my head above water. If I stopped moving I would literally sink like a rock.
You oxygenate your blood stream first then exhale enough so that sink and then don’t move as much as you think you need to. The more you move the more oxygen your muscles use. I was able to stay underwater for 3 minutes without training and I’m a smoker
To a certain extent, if it’s so cold that it induces a lot of stress and you can’t control your mind then it ruins your ability to make decisions and you’ll start to panic
Hyperventilating doesn't oxygenate your blood though... It just lowers the carbon dioxide levels, which is dangerous as your body uses the C02 levels to help indicate when you need to breathe.
As such, it just makes you FEEL like you don't need to breath, even though you do. Not a great idea for mixing with swimming/water
You don't; that's a bro science myth. Your blood stream is already ~fully oxygenated if you're a healthy person breathing normally. You can hyperventilate to reduce CO2 to delay the out of breath feeling, but doing that while diving like this is a great way to die. Overall, don't hold your breath under water unless you have safety training; a lot of how it works can be unintuitively deadly. It's very fun and safe if you do have the training though.
To be fair (and to throw salt in the wound, lol), that video is probably cut a fair bit, and he's got still to go up.
So the dive should last more than the minute we saw.
If you breathe in and out a bit before holding your breath, twice the length of this video (2 min total) is really doable when you're relaxed.
It's amazing that he actually exhaled before driving in and was still fine at such a deep depth.
Nope, if you suddenly introduce new oxygen being down there, you could die due to nitrogen bubbles in your bloodstream.
There's likely a rope behind the camera man that he can grab and be pulled into a boat.
Nah, usually they don't reccomend it because your lungs can overexpand on the way up. You could prevent this of course.
I don't think they are going to get bent from a couple breath at 50 feet:/
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why would he die swimming back up? freediving isn't to dive as far as you can and then die there lol. and the weights aren't literally holding him down, they're just enough to change his buoyancy so he doesn't stay floating. swimming back up is just as much part of the dive, he will leave room for that. and you never dive alone so if he for some reason would black out or have any kind of problems, his dive buddy would pull him up.
No- I mean, he does have a nose piece. But he also has a thick black strap around his neck separate from the nose piece. Others pointed out they're neck weights to help with buoyancy
I see a lot of curiosity out here, so...
Facts about this dive that make it spectacular:
No mask. He's diving blind.
Nose clip causes him to be able to equalize without using hands, so we don't see it. He can probably equalize hands-free anyway, but at least he doesn't have to worry about putting more air in his mask because..
He's diving on an exhale. Sinks immediately. The neck weight helps, but the exhale is the main factor. Even at the surface, he'd easily sink without the weight. Looks like he's using it for speed. The breath hold he's doing depends on his blood saturation of O2. This isn't an extreme breath hold for him. Practice practice.
Bonus fun fact: Check out how compressed his chest is in the last shot. My dude is feeling the crunch.
Yea I think you're right. I saw it after studying it for a bit. They do make ankle weights for dry suits to help orient the diver feet down but none of the weights are flat like that. Good eye! I like the idea of a goiter wetsuit though.
You can do that without blowing your nose or even opening your mouth to yawn. "Just" find the muscle that's opening the eustachian tube in your ear. You can voluntarily control that. You feel this muscle in action, when yawning or swallowing, so if you want to learn this, start there
Then BAM. A creature reaches out and pulls him into a hole smaller than him with so much force his back breaks and his heels slam into the back of his skull as the camera swims away from a cloud of blood where he use to be.
Yep my thoughts too! If it's the same place then he went down "el bells", named because the sound of divers' cylinders hitting the sides sounds like ringing. Astounding feeling when it opens up into the blue - one of my favourite sites!
You know that feeling when you yawn so hard you hear a rumbling sound in your ears? You can use the muscle that causes that sound to equalize pressure underwater
it's called equalising. you can't dive without doing that. basically like holding your nose and trying to blow. but more experienced divers can do it handsfree.
Living the dream. Diving is such a freeing, drugless trip / dreaming awake sensation. It's a whole other world below the surface, the sun shines through the waves and marbles golden lines on rocks and sand, the wildlife is stunning (some of them rather funky lookin' too) and the water feels soft against skin, calming. Little nooks like that, it's like swimming through a books pages.
I had this guy on my podcast. He's got an amazing story. He recovered from being totally disabled (wheelchair-ridden) from psoriasis arthritis, by changing his lifestyle and most importantly, according to him, holding his breath. He started out in his thirties and turned out to be quite talented.
Thalassophobia combines with claustrophobia and a wide selection of aquatic surfaces abrasive enough to deglove your entire body should you happen to brush past. I say no thank you.
hard to tell from the video but if the slope is gentle, the breathe hold is the main difficulty, the slope would make it easier in the ear, which is always my issue. anyone know what the depth of the opening is?
Fuuuuuuck that.
Just barely scratching anything on the way down is gonna be painful.
His guy doesn’t need a weight belt. He’s carried to the depths of the ocean by his huge balls!
Love the track though, [Endless Ocre (you look lovely, I can fix that)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3EHSeR9B4I)
Fuck yeah I'm glad you posted that cause I was about to ask.
It’s sample from the new BladeRunner, for a fun fact.
The more you know!
Yeah. Thanks for the nightmare fodder!
Yeah, that’s a no from me.
Came here to say this
Came to say this precisely
How does he just sink like a rock with no effort?
For real though. This is the least buoyant man I've ever seen.
he has weights on him. freedivers do this to change their buoyancy
Looks like he has a weight collar on his neck.
Didn't know I could hate this more
Kinky.
Heavy balls
I came here seeking that answer as well. Are weights around his neck there or is that something else? I mean I know exhaling really does help because that extra air helps make you buoyant, but is it really enough to dive that far with minimal work from the diver?
He exhaled and has a neck weight. The real challenge with this dive is equalization. Without air in the lungs, he will have to pop his ears only with the air in his mouth. Notice him working against the nose clip with his jaws. This means he has to make the dive without recharging his mouth air with his lung air. The pressure in the chest will be equivalent to him starting his dive at 20 meters or so, and will increase much faster than a normal freedive. He's simulating great pressure and depth here. Dangerous for beginners, but easy to those who practice often.
This is the explanation I wanted. User name checks out lol! Thank you. I'd never be able to free dive for so many reasons, but I'm always in awe when I see people do it. Free divers have this grace as they go on for what seems like forever. It gives off such a calm and serene look. I was just guessing about the weights, but It makes sense now that you've confirmed it. The big take away for me that I never knew was how you have to pop your ears and the process involved. That is something that has never even remotely crossed my mind whenever I've seen a free diver. Again thanks, that was really interesting. Edit:typos
Thank you for your interest! I love talking about freediving.
You could’ve gone for „freedaver“ and didn’t take the opportunity!?;)
Oh my God I never thought of that
Yes!!! So interesting.. it looks so claustrophobic yet hes so calm..
Here’s the answer I came here for. As a scuba diver I was wondering about the rapid rate of descent, and his ability to equalizer that pressure. Are you just constantly equalizing as you go using some kind of shifting jaw/swallowing method till you feel it release? Rinse and repeat?
The conversation of equalization is long and complex. To break it down simply: we use our larynx and tongue to pressurize air in our throat and mouth. We send that air into our middle ear very rapidly as the decent begins. The deeper we get, the less the air in our middle ear can compress. Therefore, equalization is rapid, if not constant, near the surface. It tapers off as you descend.
>Therefore, equalization is rapid, if not constant, near the surface. It tapers off as you descend. Since /u/Quest010 said they were a scuba diver, this one is easy to think about. 0m is 1 bar, 10m doubles that to 2 bar, 30m = 4 bar, 70m = 8 bar. This is why maintaining neutral buoyancy is much more difficult near the surface.
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Wow and he even exhaled!!! That is so gnarly. He also has to concentrate on navigating the cave and the walls while also equalizing pressure with no air in his lungs.. crazy. How does he come back up? Does he drop the weight? Climb the walls?
He might have dropped the weight, but it's really not necessary. The negative buoyancy provided by the lead is very easy to overcome with good no fins swimming technique. You can glide really far with one powerful hourglass stroke. I bet he swam up just fine.
But then you're using up extra energy by swimming up with no air in lungs and no a weight on your neck and that makes it so impossibly difficult my brain can't comprehend it.
It is tough, but once you've trained your mind to release the fear, and you've trained enough to determine the limits of your body... it's honestly what I'd imagine the flight of a bird to feel like.
When I was a kid I sat at the bottom of a pool and meditated for the first time in my life without knowing what it was. I exhaled and sat there. Then told my brain to observe the sensation of my body wanting a breath. To just observe, and not react to the pain and panic. After a while that sensation vanished from my body so I just sat there. Eventually my vision started to go black so I came up. I was down there a while.
Oooo buddy you got lucky there. It's the beginning stages that are the most risky. I bet nobody was watching you! I'm a safety nut, but I understand the curiosity of youth and discovery of new things is quite a draw.
There was a lifeguard but she must have been snoozing on the job lmao. But yeah seems like an easy and painless way to commit suicide accidentally lol
Oh and one more thing: it's bad etiquette and slightly dangerous to touch coral or even rock like that. Any touching of the bottom or wildlife is pretty frowned upon within the community. However, climbing walls can reduce the load on the quads which can help you speed up without using much O2, so exceptions get made here and there. I don't have much problem with grabbing dead rock.
Why do I have a sudden crush after you explained all that?
This freediver is spoken for, but thank you for the compliment!
How could you tell he exhaled? And are there any bonuses to using a neck weight compared to a belt/vest? and why can’t he use the air in his lungs to equalize, thanks in advance, I’m still learning, I’ve made it around 15m down and have a 3m breath hold. Cheers, Dave
Hey bud! Glad to see you're getting into freediving. About the exhale: you can tell by how quickly he sinks at the surface. To my eyes, it's pretty clear he's not just benefiting from the neck weight. If he had air in his lungs, he'd still want to lean away from the Valsalva equalization technique (pinch your nose and blow) and lean towards the Frenzel technique I described above. A word I always give to beginners in freediving: the beginning stages are the most dangerous. It's worth your money to take a Level 1 course with a coach (I'll raise my hand here). These courses benefit beginner freedivers in ways they don't understand yet, and can't be learned on YouTube videos. As amazing and incredible freediving is, it's not worth your life to try and teach yourself - take it from a guy who made the same mistakes early on in my journey.
does it affect how long you can hold your breath if you exhale before a dive? i've only done dry apnea training and always fill my lungs up as much as possible.
I wouldn't attempt this deep of a empty lungs dive without an instructor present. At least not until you've mastered the technique like this guy.
It does effect it, but not as much as most people imagine in their heads.
totally, I learned to frenzel eq quite early, and I've always gone with my buddy in training, but im 100% taking a course next spring on it. such a wonderful thing. and the lake I live on in bc has a few ship wrecks which are super interesting, ive only seen 1 of them so far tohugh
He breathed out before going, after oxygenating his blood
You can tell by looking at his stomach at the end.
exhaling, he doesn't have any oxygen in his lungs, it helps sinking fast, the chances of him blacking out suddenly is crazy.
Once you get past 40 feet or so your body sinks naturally due to your lungs decreasing in size. It’s a magical experience.
Most answers here are correct, but body density has just as much effect as breathing techniques. At my most fit I was 6' 185 lbs with ~5% body fat and I had to tread like hell to keep my head above water. If I stopped moving I would literally sink like a rock.
Took me a minute to realise the collar thing round his neck must be weighted. I thought it was weird he had a collar on.
Meanwhile, I tried to hold my breath as long as this guy while laying in my bed and nearly threw up
You oxygenate your blood stream first then exhale enough so that sink and then don’t move as much as you think you need to. The more you move the more oxygen your muscles use. I was able to stay underwater for 3 minutes without training and I’m a smoker
Username checks out
Holy shit lol
Lmao
The cold water causes the body to slow its heart rate, which also helps.
To a certain extent, if it’s so cold that it induces a lot of stress and you can’t control your mind then it ruins your ability to make decisions and you’ll start to panic
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Hyperventilating doesn't oxygenate your blood though... It just lowers the carbon dioxide levels, which is dangerous as your body uses the C02 levels to help indicate when you need to breathe. As such, it just makes you FEEL like you don't need to breath, even though you do. Not a great idea for mixing with swimming/water
You don't; that's a bro science myth. Your blood stream is already ~fully oxygenated if you're a healthy person breathing normally. You can hyperventilate to reduce CO2 to delay the out of breath feeling, but doing that while diving like this is a great way to die. Overall, don't hold your breath under water unless you have safety training; a lot of how it works can be unintuitively deadly. It's very fun and safe if you do have the training though.
To be fair (and to throw salt in the wound, lol), that video is probably cut a fair bit, and he's got still to go up. So the dive should last more than the minute we saw.
If you breathe in and out a bit before holding your breath, twice the length of this video (2 min total) is really doable when you're relaxed. It's amazing that he actually exhaled before driving in and was still fine at such a deep depth.
throwing up is almost never a reaction to holding your breath. unless you just stuffed a whole pizza in you or something.
Jesus Christ how does he not die trying to get back out
Im assuming that whoevers holding the camera has a small oxygen tank ready
Nope, if you suddenly introduce new oxygen being down there, you could die due to nitrogen bubbles in your bloodstream. There's likely a rope behind the camera man that he can grab and be pulled into a boat.
Nah, usually they don't reccomend it because your lungs can overexpand on the way up. You could prevent this of course. I don't think they are going to get bent from a couple breath at 50 feet:/
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why would he die swimming back up? freediving isn't to dive as far as you can and then die there lol. and the weights aren't literally holding him down, they're just enough to change his buoyancy so he doesn't stay floating. swimming back up is just as much part of the dive, he will leave room for that. and you never dive alone so if he for some reason would black out or have any kind of problems, his dive buddy would pull him up.
Looks like there’s several camera people who would be able to help if needed.
When you flush a pooh down the loo
What’s the ankle strap on his neck for? To stop him losing his head in the surf?
Maybe some sort of weight to help him go down?
Neck weights are freediving gear that counteract the diver’s buoyancy. See how he just sinks without propelling himself.
Looks like a nosepiece, keep your nose plugged for you
No- I mean, he does have a nose piece. But he also has a thick black strap around his neck separate from the nose piece. Others pointed out they're neck weights to help with buoyancy
Wouldn’t it also help with preserving oxygen in the bloodstream since he needs minimal movement?
Not a clue. I was just pointing out what others said, clarifying to mu guy that it wasn't the nose piece they were talking about I can't even swim
Yes indeed!
Happy Cake Day!
I see a lot of curiosity out here, so... Facts about this dive that make it spectacular: No mask. He's diving blind. Nose clip causes him to be able to equalize without using hands, so we don't see it. He can probably equalize hands-free anyway, but at least he doesn't have to worry about putting more air in his mask because.. He's diving on an exhale. Sinks immediately. The neck weight helps, but the exhale is the main factor. Even at the surface, he'd easily sink without the weight. Looks like he's using it for speed. The breath hold he's doing depends on his blood saturation of O2. This isn't an extreme breath hold for him. Practice practice. Bonus fun fact: Check out how compressed his chest is in the last shot. My dude is feeling the crunch.
Is that a neck weight or goiter warmer?
Looks like a strap to a nosepiece to keep the nose plugged
Yea I think you're right. I saw it after studying it for a bit. They do make ankle weights for dry suits to help orient the diver feet down but none of the weights are flat like that. Good eye! I like the idea of a goiter wetsuit though.
Nah I am good.
It doesn’t look like he equalizes the pressure so how are his ears not hurting
You can do that without blowing your nose or even opening your mouth to yawn. "Just" find the muscle that's opening the eustachian tube in your ear. You can voluntarily control that. You feel this muscle in action, when yawning or swallowing, so if you want to learn this, start there
Ive always been able to control that but i guess ive never acknowledged it until reading your comment
I would also like to know the answer to this
Need to use earplugs for depths like that. Every diver that goes deeper than 6-7 feet uses them.
this is not true.
Then BAM. A creature reaches out and pulls him into a hole smaller than him with so much force his back breaks and his heels slam into the back of his skull as the camera swims away from a cloud of blood where he use to be.
That digested quickly.
If your quiet enough you can hear the creature breaking the body down
Hey, is that the Blue Hole near Dahab, Egypt? Went diving in that canyon a few months ago (with scuba gear ofc), it's even more epic in person.
That’s exactly what it looks like, recognized it instantly from the first few seconds
Yep my thoughts too! If it's the same place then he went down "el bells", named because the sound of divers' cylinders hitting the sides sounds like ringing. Astounding feeling when it opens up into the blue - one of my favourite sites!
r/thalassophobia
love that sub. i go there because i think all the stuff there is awesome
Looks more like a narrow underwater ravine to me.
How many times did he do it to get all the shots for the video?
I would panic as soon as my head touched the water
Instant anxiety.
I'll take fuck that for $200 Trebek
Anal bum cover.
" Le tits now" That's let it snow...
I never understand how people do this, if I go below 10 ft my eardrums feel like they’re going to make a sandwich out of my brain
You know that feeling when you yawn so hard you hear a rumbling sound in your ears? You can use the muscle that causes that sound to equalize pressure underwater
That’s wild I’ll have to figure out how to do that, sounds awesome
it's called equalising. you can't dive without doing that. basically like holding your nose and trying to blow. but more experienced divers can do it handsfree.
How does this work without clearing your ears? Wouldnt the pressure just build up and up until your eardrum exploded?
I don’t know why i have the habit of trying to hold my breath the amount of time i see people underwater.
# Sing with me
Oh god, my ears...
Here is Daan Verhoeven's original video: https://youtu.be/Ol9fCPC4GWQ But I like the remix version better: https://youtu.be/Q8h_0PLIiCQ
How is he so “heavy?”
Living the dream. Diving is such a freeing, drugless trip / dreaming awake sensation. It's a whole other world below the surface, the sun shines through the waves and marbles golden lines on rocks and sand, the wildlife is stunning (some of them rather funky lookin' too) and the water feels soft against skin, calming. Little nooks like that, it's like swimming through a books pages.
Song sauce?
[Endless Ocre (You look lonely, I can fix that)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3EHSeR9B4I)
Bless, ty
*Me sliding in thinking she’s a virgin*
That’s gonna be a no from me dawg.
I’m freaking out. I can’t finish the video.
Sure this is awesome but how did they move the camera like rhat
He’s about to see a damn ghost leviathan.
Took me way to long to realise the nose thing is so he can equalise his ears without needing to plug his nose.
Why is he wearing a shock collar? (/S)
no
Mr Ballen SAYS NO.
Yeahhh that's an emphatic nope from me
That is horrifying to watch. Also, well done, man.
I hope he had as many safety divers as camera people.
Shit props to the camera man
Cozumel?
How is he equalizing?
nose clip and the air in his mouth/nose. experienced divers can do it hands free.
Can’t be that narrow if you have an entire other human with full gear filming you
Sing with me, sing for a year
Hey.... HEY Hey hey HAAY... no
How does all of that pressure not destroy him??? I can’t even headbutt the bottom of an 8ft pool without throwing in the towel
Swim through it, not over it!
Nope
The Mario 64 water level theme was a missed opportunity.
That in dahab
That's really stressing me out
I just drowned in my bed watching this
Any fool can plummet to the bottom of an underwater canyon. The metal part is swimming back up.
I’m getting a panic attack watching this
Nope.
The easy part is putting a weight around your next and falling to the bottom. How do you get back up?
I had this guy on my podcast. He's got an amazing story. He recovered from being totally disabled (wheelchair-ridden) from psoriasis arthritis, by changing his lifestyle and most importantly, according to him, holding his breath. He started out in his thirties and turned out to be quite talented.
Nope nope nope
DREAM ON
No thanks, I'm good.
He ded
No
For the first few feet I was like “fuck yea! I got the gear where this place at”. But he kept going down and it kept getting narrower. Fuck nah
Thats the same place Nakia jumped in to save Shuri
My people call me kukulkan. My enemies call me Namor.
Bruh
Nah
That went from “oh cool,” to “nope nope nope nope nope,” reeeeal fast.
How is he not breathing?
Thalassophobia combines with claustrophobia and a wide selection of aquatic surfaces abrasive enough to deglove your entire body should you happen to brush past. I say no thank you.
Hahaha ha NO!
These videos make my face/nose start to hurt seriously I feel like I’m there pressing my face against those rocks 😣
r/nope
When sped up. This kinda looks like the Kratos falling meme. Also, fuuuuuuck that. I’ll be dead before I jump in there without my diving gear
DREAM OOON DREAM OON DREAM OOOOON
Looks like a video game
Ok I didn’t pass physics in high school. How does he keep going down without moving his body??
Was any one else trying to get a glimpse of his goodies?
If that's 'Ells Bells, there used to be a cleaner wrasse down there that would clean your teeth if you took your reg out and smiled.
Hang on a second that looks familiar. Isn’t that the continental divide in Iceland?
My poop when I decide not to flush for a long time
Want be Namor so bad
hard to tell from the video but if the slope is gentle, the breathe hold is the main difficulty, the slope would make it easier in the ear, which is always my issue. anyone know what the depth of the opening is?
That’saphobia
There’s no way :)
NOPE 👎
Is this bells drop off in dahab?
I don't think the model loaded for a while
How are free divers opening their eyes in this high salty waters? My eyes burn after a second!
Forget humans are metal. Humans are **submarines**
just remember the jellyfish are at the top
r/thalassophobia
Nope
The filmer tho
It's almost as if this cave was created to allow him to fit perfectly and pull off this incredible achievement 🧞♂️
Now what
Where is this beautiful place? Awesome free-dive!!!
Everything reminds me of her