One thing to remember is that Julie filmed this on "Breath Hold" meaning: she held her breath while filming the dive with him. Two people doing an amazing dive!!
Guillaume, you are exactly who I wanted to be growing up. I became a certified SCUBA diver when I was 15 years old and wanted to get into free diving badly but the dream never materialized. Now I am fifty with some significant health issues but RU-vid and people like you have allowed me to be that free diver I always wanted to be. You touch the world, and allow us to touch it with you.
I have a tremendous fear of open water and dark depths, so just watching this video is making my heart race and giving me goose bumps. Amazing video, regardless of my phobia though.
12 years already ... time goes by so f*cking fast ! I remember all the chills I had when seing the footage for first time ... thanks again Guillaume & Juilie !
I watched this ten years ago. The video is stunning, the song stuck in my head. Everytime I swim and go some metres under water, this sounds in my head as a soundtrack.
That is terrifying and damn impressive. Not only training your lungs to that extent, but also the feeling you gotta have standing before that big black hole in the ground and just jumping in heads on. Kudos.
GoldenSnow Yeah they probably do but they had to go down first in order to shoot him from below and that, is what I admire. If only this was true though XD
Need to say a few words: I started interesting about freediving on like september 2016 I held my breath for 33 seconds at the first try. Now im about 3 minutes. This video gave me the inspiration and the courage to learn this. Doesn't matter if it's fake or not, thank you.
The comments and the amount of "dislikes" is a testament to peoples ignorance,- if you don't know anything about the subject do NOT jump to conclusions. This video is not fake. Like all directed videos it's edited from multiple rolls of footage to get the best possible angle. Guillaume is base jumping into the Dean's Blue Hole, a 200+ meter deep sinkhole in the Bahamas. He is landing on one of the ledges inside the opening and climbing back up. The Dean's Blue hole is one of the top spots for freedivers with events hosted annually by organizations like Vertical Blue. This video is a brilliant example of the otherworldly experience that a freediver goes through while under water. If you've spent all your life sitting in front of a computer, you will not be able to relate to this. Sorry.
Hauntingly beautiful.... What an extraordinary feat and even more extraordinary is the filming and camera angles (above AND below) executed while he did this - shot by another freediver, his wife. Wow!
Watching this at 66 years I realize and can imagine the possibilities of so much many of miss along the way.. I was looking for more after watching One Breath Around The World. You both are stunningly brave and amazing artist. My thanks to you both
I was lucky enough to meet him in Okinawa, Japan & watched him do free dives all day long while I was on scuba gear. It's impressive to watch him dive. I feel lucky to have meet him.
These two are the real power couple. Not Hollywood's fighting and nagging egotistic couples we are showered by as 'role models'. Julie and Guillaume, may your love continue to the end of time. You are amazing in your own right and together. Thanks for the amazing video.
I was kinda pissed off when they didn't credit the musician. This video wouldn't have been half as successful without this music choice, and then they don't even credit the musician
Je suis bluffée par cette grâce et son assurance. Magnifique ! On le sait bien l'inconnu nous fait peur, mais avec Guillaume, il nous prouve qu'une fois dans l'obscurité rien n'est effrayant... Juste notre imagination. Bravo
Isn't it? This is the video that inspired me to get my freediving level 1 certificate. Pretty pathetic by comparison, nose bleeds and the ear pressure was incredible but I proud that I managed it. All thanks to this video.
I viewed this video when it first came out, and when it had about 10,000 views... changed my life forever. Guillaume Nery is my favorite freediver... right in front of William Trubridge. Seriously, though... words cannot describe what he did... besides of course diving about 650-700 ft into Blue Hole... on one breath. Incredible.
For the "Fake! - ers": 1. Guillaume had balast-belt on him. That's why he could have lungs filled with air and still sink like that. That's also why he needed to climb back up. 2. The cameraman didn't give him air because the cameraman was also freediving - no scuba gear. It's his girlfriend. 3. He never reached the bottom - while freediving, nobody has. It's 202 meters deep. The last guy who tried to freedive deeper than 101 meters there, in this freeding discipline, died afterwards.
well, the funny thing is that he doesn't wear the ballast-belt from 2.03-2.13 and there are many shots (even on the "bottom") where you can't see any belts on him.
Kàllai Zoltán There might be some shots w/o the belt. The clip was made over the course of two afternoons. So there was probably several different dives filmed.
Oh, that's funny (and true!) especially since he didn't even go to to the bottom (which is over 400' deep, but there's a ledge about 40 feet down, that's probably where he stopped that LOOKED like bottom) and it's dark deeper and in a hole so ambient light isn't as much apparent as just plain ocean bed. I know I was too scared to go past that first drop-off, and I wasn't even comfortable there! I'll take someone else's video any time to see what is there!
People calling it fake because of him not needing air....I'm just wondering how he turned off physics and walked underwater without weights. And "fell".
instead of turning off physics he put weights on his body which is why he had to climb back up. I guess he put his evil powers aside and decided to leave physics on for the rest of the humans on planet earth. lol....
for example when i was overweight if was hard for me to dive, now, when I'm skinny, even if my lungs are full of air i'm sinking if I'm not trying to hold on the top. Maybe it's like that fot him.
I watched this 9 years ago, still come back to watch it again... Best free deep dive video made, and great choice of music, cant think of a better music for this video, just genius.
Okay, I stumbled upon this a while back...I believe this is the coolest video on RU-vid! Great song, appropriate for this video. The videography is stunning! Love it!
Oh my god! You are crazy and amazing at the same time! Both of you, Guillaume and Julie, you are both brave & crazy to base jump of into the dark deep... I held my breath when i saw this video. 💕 Johanna, sweden
How they did it: They took multiple angle shots of him then put them together to make the pre-jump phase look longer. Professional divers can hold their breaths for upwards of 4 minutes, with the world record being around 10 minutes if memory serves me right. It's more than possible for this single dive to have been done on 1 breath, with no support from the camera men's air tanks. The only support he would have got would have been in an emergency situation. The reason the entire thing looks to take so long is because they're showing the same part of the jump from different angles, I'd fire a guess at the whole thing only taking 2-3 minutes, including the climb back up (you'd be surprised how fast you can climb underwater even with weights on). And my personal comments on the feat: NOPE NOPE NOPE I'm scared of deep water and heights as it is. Mixing the 2 together? NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE!
Jens van der Ham I think you over estimate how good CGI is. That or some people just have a terrible eye for spotting the difference. If you're not ignorant to the world, you'd see that this is completely within the realm of possibilities. Nothing about it is special, but if you aren't aware of what the body is capable of (or what computers are capable of apparently) then you might think otherwise.
My friend made me listen to this 5 years ago, we used to smoke up and listen to the bassy music on speakers, he is no more now, I still listen to this in 2022 all the time.
as a horror fan, I must say that this is one of the few things I've ever seen where I got really nervous for the main character. Now before y'all get butthurt about me calling him a "character", let me just say that this guy has some real guts. I don't think I could bring myself to do that, and I have a deathwish.
First recorded real-life mutant. His lungs recycle the air, turning the carbon dioxide back into oxygen. That would be the only explanation I will accept as to how the fuck he holds his breath so long. He just doesn't. Holy christ.
I think it's in slow motion, and the breath holing record is 22 min 00 sec by Stig Severinsen in 2012 according to Guiness. How the hell cand anyone hold his breath for 22 minutes !?!?!?!?
besides being cut and repeated from different states of the vid or not being down at the bottom whatever, this must be really cool to experience. let alone diving into that pit, just staying there, no sound but the water and your own blood, watching down that pit- probably fearless -
+Cristian Playz not necessarily. The further you go down, the more compressed the air in your lungs will be. meaning that instead of keeping the air from escaping, he will have to try to keep the water from entering. as he ascends to the surface the air will expand again. This is why people get the bends if they ascend too quickly. the gas in their blood expands from the sudden massive decrease in external pressure
lol I think I worded it wrong :p I meant to really say how many of you guys were holding your breath while watching the video. I was holding my breath while he was diving in the video lol. I get the same ffect when people do park-our stuff on top of buildings ha ha
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