• Diver plunges 100 meters, unassisted on one breath, to set world record
    44 replies, posted
[quote=YahooSports] William Trubridge on Monday accomplished what had long been regarded as an impossible feat: swimming to a depth of 100 meters, or 328 feet, on a single breath and with only hands and feet for propulsion. The New Zealander did not use swim fins; he wore no weights and required no heavy sled during the descent. Nor did he use an inflatable airbag to swiftly reach the surface after his dive. Rather, he set a new unassisted freediving record and achieved the historic 100-meter mark -- previously attained only in an assisted manner, with weighted sleds and airbags -- while wearing only a thin wetsuit and displaying remarkable power of mind over body. [New record:Fishermen catch a 1,098-pound shark] "It's different than when you use sleds and airbags," Trubridge said of a his dive, made at Dean's Blue Hole in the Bahamas. "Because when you turn around at 100 meters and start swimming back to the surface with just your hands and feet, it can be a little bit daunting because of how much water you have over your head." A diver cannot always see the surface at 328 feet. It's more than three times deeper than what's considered safe for recreational scuba divers, who must ascend from any significant depth at a painstakingly slow pace to avoid developing embolisms in the bloodstream, associated with breathing compressed air. Trubridge held his breath for 4 minutes, 10 seconds, from start to finish. In reaching 100 meters he matched a depth first attained by a freediver in 1976, when Jacques Mayol completed his dive using a weighted sled and inflatable airbag. Mayol's exploits were legendary. The Frenchman was portrayed in the 1988 adventure movie "The Big Blue," which delved into the obscure sport of freediving. Trubidge's accomplishment, however, reveals how far breath-hold diving has evolved, and to what extreme the human body and mind are capable of coping. At 100 meters, lungs fill with blood as a natural means of preventing their collapse. The heart rate slows to the point where a diver can become disoriented, feeling either sleepy or euphoric. [See also:Hugh Jackman injured in 'Oprah' stunt] "So you need to stay focused with all of those things going on," said Trubridge, who has dominated the unassisted category of breath-hold diving since achieving 80 meters for a then-record in 2007. Trubridge, an instructor at the Vertical Blue Apnea Academy in the Bahamas, named his long-planned endeavor Project Hector and was trying to raise awareness for Hector's Dolphins, diminutive mammals that are endemic to New Zealand and face the threat of extinction, largely because of indiscriminate fishing methods and pollution. The freediver requests that anyone interested in learning more about the dolphins visit the New Zealand Whale and Dolphin Trust website. -- Images of William Trubridge en route to 100 meters and back at the surface are courtesy of Paolo Valenti and Igor Liberti, respectively. [/quote] Source: [url]http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/blog/22880/diver+plunges+100+meters+unassisted+on+one+breath+to+set+world+record/[/url]
Oh god.. The thought of drowning and running out of breath would make you rush to the top.. but that would kill you even faster. :aaaaa:
I wonder how he could breathe that deep underwater??? More boxes to build my submarine!
Mind over body? How much concentration does it take to hold your breathe for 4:10 at a depth of 100m because I'd love to try this.
Oh wait they meant in water
[QUOTE=cdejong;26703631]I wonder how he could breathe that deep underwater???[/QUOTE] He had sex with a walrus.
-thanks for posting and breaking the merge-
[QUOTE=HellSoldier;26703658]Mind over body? How much concentration does it take to hold your breathe for 4:10 at a depth of 100m?[/QUOTE] How about you try it. lollll, beat me to it.
[QUOTE=cdejong;26703631]I wonder how he could breathe that deep underwater???[/QUOTE] If he breaths water he is a fish
[QUOTE=HellSoldier;26703666]-thanks for posting and breaking the merge-[/QUOTE] You broke my merge. You are a merge-erer [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Spam" - Benji))[/highlight]
Am I the only one who finds myself not breathing when reading or watching something about people underwater? Also, that's an awesome feat, I can't imagine being that deep, when being 10 feet under is too much for me :saddowns:
Wouldn't the pressures kill him?
I can't hold my breath worth a shit.
Shit, lungs fill with blood, that sounds franky terrible.
[QUOTE=Test Card F;26703819]Wouldn't the pressures kill him?[/QUOTE] Yes obviously, the laws of physics bent so this man could break the world record.
[QUOTE=Test Card F;26703819]Wouldn't the pressures kill him?[/QUOTE] No, you can't actually die of mere pressure underwater, you die of suffocation or oxygen toxicity or oxygen deprivation.
4 minutes while swimming is a fucking long time. At that depth as well, that's insane.
[QUOTE=KingNick220;26703681]If he breaths water he is a fish[/QUOTE] Fish don't breathe water dipshit. They breathe oxygen, the gills split the hydrogen from the oxygen in water. Dipshit. [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Flaming" - PLing))[/highlight]
[QUOTE=Capn'Underpants;26703988]Fish don't breathe water dipshit. They breathe oxygen, the gills split the hydrogen from the oxygen in water. Dipshit.[/QUOTE] No need to be so abrasive. [QUOTE=MuTAnT;26703937]4 minutes while swimming is a fucking long time. At that depth as well, that's insane.[/QUOTE] Seriously, not to mention it probably gets even more difficult to swim at lower depths AND fuck all cold
[QUOTE=Capn'Underpants;26703988]Fish don't breathe water dipshit. They breathe oxygen, the gills split the hydrogen from the oxygen in water. Dipshit.[/QUOTE] The gills actually extract oxygen molecules that are dissolved in the water, it doesn't even deal with hydrogen.
[QUOTE=Capn'Underpants;26703988]Fish don't breathe water dipshit. They breathe oxygen, the gills split the hydrogen from the oxygen in water. Dipshit.[/QUOTE] Humans don't breathe air dipshit. We breathe oxygen, the lungs split out the oxygen in the air. Dipshit. [editline]14th December 2010[/editline] Seriously?
[quote]Trubridge held his breath for 4 minutes, 10 seconds, from start to finish.[/quote] holy fuuuuuuuuuuck
[QUOTE=yuki;26703909]No, you can't actually die of mere pressure underwater, you die of suffocation or oxygen toxicity or oxygen deprivation.[/QUOTE] At extreme depths you would simply implode, much like how a submarine implodes.
[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;26705125]At extreme depths you would simply implode, much like how a submarine implodes.[/QUOTE] That's weird, I usually explode after my first plunge.
4 minutes? Psssssh, I know someone who can hold there breath for 2.5 times that long! [IMG]http://img547.imageshack.us/img547/7267/filesphpfileguybrush877.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=doomkiwi;26705187]4 minutes? Psssssh, I know someone who can hold there breath for 2.5 times that long! [img_thumb]http://img547.imageshack.us/img547/7267/filesphpfileguybrush877.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE] Amelia Earhart : 73 Years, and counting.
[QUOTE=yuki;26703909]No, you can't actually die of mere pressure underwater, you die of suffocation or oxygen toxicity or oxygen deprivation.[/QUOTE] Yes you can. In one episode of mythbusters they tried if cutting pressure from a pressure suit while it was submerged deep crushed the man. It did.
[QUOTE=JWJ;26703626]Oh god.. The thought of drowning and running out of breath would make you rush to the top.. but that would kill you even faster. :aaaaa:[/QUOTE] Nah, that's only if you bring air canisters. Because he's using only what he carries in his lungs, he doesn't need to take the normal pacing procedures that scuba divers do. No air tank= no bends.
What. A pool that deep could hold the Statue of Liberty and it's base and a little more.
[QUOTE=Kalibos;26705082]holy fuuuuuuuuuuck[/QUOTE] The world record is actually around 19 minutes underwater.
Sorry, you need to Log In to post a reply to this thread.