Want to feel inadequate on SCUBA gear? Watch this ...

[highdesert]

Guillaume Nery base jumping at Dean's Blue Hole, filmed on breath hold by Julie Gautier

YouTube - Guillaume Nery base jumping at Dean's Blue Hole, filmed on breath hold by Julie Gautier

663 feet ... one breath

 

[burliosully]

great video, found myself holding my breath watching it. Seems to me to be multiple takes with all of the different camera angles.Loved it.

 

[highdesert]

Probably multiple cameras, but one take ... one breath.

 

[diversteve]

A couple of minor corrections -

That's not the 663' record freedive being filmed. For that he would've most likely had to use a sled. And there doesn't appear to be any lights used - at those depths that would've been necessary. One of the youtube comments indicates that he went to a ledge at a depth of about 100m. That's possible for someone like him.

Also, realistically he didn't climb all the way back up on one breath.

There's another thread about it in the Freediving sub-forum. One of the posters there read that Nery admitted that he did this as an artistic piece and so used multiple takes.

 

[carrielsal]

That is amazing. I keep looking for this guy's gills.

 

[highdesert]

A couple of minor corrections -

That's not the 663' record freedive being filmed. For that he would've most likely had to use a sled. And there doesn't appear to be any lights used - at those depths that would've been necessary. One of the youtube comments indicates that he went to a ledge at a depth of about 100m. That's possible for someone like him.

Also, realistically he didn't climb all the way back up on one breath.

There's another thread about it in the Freediving sub-forum. One of the posters there read that Nery admitted that he did this as an artistic piece and so used multiple takes.

Thanks for the correction ... my bad! I saw it as a news article (obviously incorrect) before I saw the video.

 

[diver 85]

They use a sled to do the deep stuff---a la Pipin.........That was 'not deep' @ all---compared to the real thing....

 

[iztok]

Do you really think he went down to 663ft in that video? I doubt it. It is none the less great video and fantastic achievement.

--- never mind I saw other people posted more accurate info

 

[diversteve]

more backstory: Freediver's breathtaking plunge into abyss part real, part fiction

"I never pretended to reach the bottom. It's impossible and no one will ever do it," Guillaume said via email, emphasizing that the movie was an artistic creation -- "a fiction movie" -- that took four afternoons of diving "to get all the shots."

 

[seacreatures]

I don't feel any inadequacies at all, it is a totally different deal, and I would rather stay shallower and a lot longer! Just the same way I choose to fly in a plane and not jump out of it Free Diving is for people who like it as SCUBA is for a different activity where there is no finish line. It takes nothing from either activity.