impressive underwater freefall

True. As i research it though it seems as it was filmed with one camera by julie gaultier also on one breath.

"This video of world champion freediver Guillaume Nery's special dive at Dean's Blue Hole is stunning. It's filmed entirely on breath hold by the French champion Julie Gautier and I feel like I am out of breath every time I watch this.

"Guillaume Nery and myself decided to use our time during a freediving competition at Dean's Blue Hole (deepest blue hole in the world) to make a short movie. Since a long time Guillaume wanted to make the link beween freeding and base jumping. Our goal was to emphasise on esthetic images and innovative camera moves." Julie Gautier "
 
it's amazing how the camera angle changes when Guillaume steps into the hole. I don't want to pick apart something so mesmerizing. Perhaps we should be more awestruck by Julie's camera work.
 
Agreed. It is an amazing video I have probably watched it 15 times, each time with my mouth dropping to the floor.
 
I lost track of how many times I've watched it...



Twinpanther said:
Blue holes are amazing in themselves. I was over at Jetsums this past week and he was watching "Diving The Labyrinth". A NatGeo series on Netflix. Saltwater so stagnant that it's seperated to salt on bottom and fresh on top, no oxygen left, and the technology and redundancy they use to dive that deep is really just cool.
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Thanks for the heads up on this Paul. I never watch TV anymore but am actually quite interested in sitting down and checking this out asap. :thumbsup:
 
Gary Majchrzak said:
I was wondering if anybody was able to watch it just once :)
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Oh oh.
Does it mean I'm "odd" if I admit to just once? Maybe I missed something? I guess I should rewatch it, just so I can look for the safety line. Naw. I don't want to ruin the awesome memory of the first view. Like with many things in life, the first time is the best. After that it's just chasing the high.
"I betcha can't eat just one".
 
i watched it a couple more times...once to get the colors into my head for a future canvas and again to see the scale of the hole as he climbed back up the side on the rock.
 
bummer

bummer

I just now accidentally stumbled upon the truth of this dive:

http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/blog/17914/freedivers+breathtaking+plunge+into+abyss+caught+on+video/

Tuesday, June 8, 2010 11:59am PDT
Freediver's breathtaking plunge into abyss part real, part fictionBy: Pete Thomas, GrindTV.com
World freediving champion Guillaume Nery had for some time wanted to establish a link between his sport -- which requires diving to incredible depths on a single breath -- and BASE jumping, which involves free-falling and parachuting from stationary objects.

Thanks to exceptional camerawork by fellow French freediver Julie Gautier, Nery has succeeded in breathtaking fashion.

The pair took advantage of a recent visit to Dean's Blue Hole west of the Bahamas, in Gautier's words, "to make a short movie."



In the movie, Nery steals a breath, marches downward across a sandy moonscape to the edge of the world's deepest underwater sink hole (638 feet). He then falls forward, like a BASE-jumper from a cliff, and begins a head-first descent.

He seems to fall through space, arms at his sides, hair flowing behind his mask, body silhouetted by the fading light above, until reaching what appears to be the bottom of the blue hole. Nery then springs upward and scales the sinkhole's walls like a rock-climber in zero-gravity, ultimately reaching the surface -- and stealing another breath -- after almost four minutes underwater.

The problem is, Guillaume did not reach the bottom and did not mean to imply that he did. (At least one report stated he did just that. Others suggested he and Gautier filmed this in one dive during actual competition.)

"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."

"We just wanted to show another approach of freediving," he explained. "For me freediving means to be in harmony with the elements, it means freedom, it means exploring the unknown. We tried to express this feeling in one video."

Gautier, a French freediving champion and model, said on her blog: "Our goal was to emphasize on aesthetic images and innovative camera moves."

Did they accomplish their goals? You be the judge.
 
Gary Majchrzak said:
I just now accidentally stumbled upon the truth of this dive:

http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/blog/17914/freedivers+breathtaking+plunge+into+abyss+caught+on+video/

Tuesday, June 8, 2010 11:59am PDT
Freediver's breathtaking plunge into abyss part real, part fictionBy: Pete Thomas, GrindTV.com
World freediving champion Guillaume Nery had for some time wanted to establish a link between his sport -- which requires diving to incredible depths on a single breath -- and BASE jumping, which involves free-falling and parachuting from stationary objects.

Thanks to exceptional camerawork by fellow French freediver Julie Gautier, Nery has succeeded in breathtaking fashion.

The pair took advantage of a recent visit to Dean's Blue Hole west of the Bahamas, in Gautier's words, "to make a short movie."



In the movie, Nery steals a breath, marches downward across a sandy moonscape to the edge of the world's deepest underwater sink hole (638 feet). He then falls forward, like a BASE-jumper from a cliff, and begins a head-first descent.

He seems to fall through space, arms at his sides, hair flowing behind his mask, body silhouetted by the fading light above, until reaching what appears to be the bottom of the blue hole. Nery then springs upward and scales the sinkhole's walls like a rock-climber in zero-gravity, ultimately reaching the surface -- and stealing another breath -- after almost four minutes underwater.

The problem is, Guillaume did not reach the bottom and did not mean to imply that he did. (At least one report stated he did just that. Others suggested he and Gautier filmed this in one dive during actual competition.)

"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."

"We just wanted to show another approach of freediving," he explained. "For me freediving means to be in harmony with the elements, it means freedom, it means exploring the unknown. We tried to express this feeling in one video."

Gautier, a French freediving champion and model, said on her blog: "Our goal was to emphasize on aesthetic images and innovative camera moves."

Did they accomplish their goals? You be the judge.
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wow - that takes the wind out of those sails.
 
i did watch it once and how the ^% does he descend without weights ? am i stupid here or what ? hmmmmmmmmm and im not trying to pick it apart in any way i just dont understand unless he is in freshwater which still is hard with your lungs full of air !WoW
 
He has a weightbelt on. You can see it when he jumps into the hole. I sink in fresh and saltwater with my lungs full :-(
 
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iamwrasseman said:
i did watch it once and how the ^% does he descend without weights ? am i stupid here or what ? hmmmmmmmmm and im not trying to pick it apart in any way i just dont understand unless he is in freshwater which still is hard with your lungs full of air !WoW
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He has lead strapped to his back
 
ok thanks as i have a very hard time sinking in saltwater and didnt see the weights. maybe i should watch that again ! pretty cool though ,huh ?
 
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