This is a jaw dropping event filmed so beautifully that you want to see more. There is a long shot of the diver "falling" in slow motion into the hole with a composition so overwhelmingly dangerous, you have to come away thinking how amazing the human body is.
This stunning video of world champion freediver Guillaume Nery base jumping underwater into Dean's Blue Hole will take your breath away.My director friend, Esther, sent me this from the Huffington Post. (I designed the poster for one of her movies that won a technology award at the Boston International Film Festival.)
Dean's Blue Hole is the world's largest underwater sinkhole, plunging 663 feet to the ocean floor in a bay west of the Bahamas. Nery, accompanied by freediving cameraman Julie Gautier, dove straight to the bottom, struck a pose, and then climbed his way back out.
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Amazing! I can't imagine going down 663 feet without any air! Incredible. He trusts the sides of the sinkhole so much. I wonder what part of the Bahamas...[in a bay west... so vague]. I have dove in the smaller islands of the bahamas and it NOTHING like this! He is amazing!!!!!!!!!!
Yea - Guillaume is one of the best freediver worldwide and the one with the coolest videos on YouTube. He did very nice videos of his constant weight world record dives and a great BMW commercial.
By the way Guillaume is within his training workouts also a fast finswimmer ;-)
That is his blog: http://guillaumenery.over-blog.com/
About the Dean's Blue Hole
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean's_Blue_Hole
regards
Martin
Martin - Seems you know some stuff about this... A question: Why didn't Guilaume remove the weight belt at the bottom? Was it "theater"? (Excuse the expression because if so, it was magnificent!) Or is there some sort of physiological reason?
Amazing video and an incredible feat.
Hi Ted
well I don't know much about that video. But it is fore sure fiction. But a very very good one :-)
The BlueHole is 202m deep. Guillaume personal best is -115m, as far as I know. Nobody on earth is able to do such an effort tog go to -202m an back to sureface unassisted.
However Guillaume is definitely one of the top five freediver worldwide.
Unbelievable.
I was going to comment that I thought 200-odd meters was beyond what I believed human limits to be... Spectacular, none the less.
Yahoo reported today that it was real that it was manufactured.
Whether it is real or if he took intermittent breaths, what they created is stunning. There were periods of him falling that tot he sea floor that were long enough for me to be amazed.
C'mon how can one/float 1300 feet, 433 yards in 4 minutes. Obviously manipulated. I wonder what his next trick will be.
From Guillaumes blog:
This video 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.
All the shots were made on breath hold by Julie Gautier.
We directed and edited the movie ourself, Julie and me. Jerome Espla (Poisson Lune Productions) was the gradder of the clip (color corrections...).
The music is from ARCHIVE - you make me feel.
The camera is a Canon 5D mark II
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