Impressive. Almost as impressive as when I once swam the whole length of the local public swimming pool underwater and nearly made it to the end, even though my goggles filled up with water. Pretty similar achievement, I think.
@Tony it was clearly a joke, but see if you do the math you’re body stops floating around 25-35 feet and 12 meters is 39 feet. So in this case you are wrong my body could definitely go much more than 12 meters I just wouldn’t be alive.
This is unreal. I remember my 1st 50ft scuba dive & the panic that set it when I couldn't equalize & had to surface. She was the closest thing I've ever seen to a mermaid!
I think they were also waiting to see the piece of paper she pulled off the marker at the bottom. She stored it in her hood so when she pulled it out they knew she had made it all the way!
They do that in apnea. The summersion is not succesful until some seconds pass when the diver reaches the surface. That is because there is still chance of blackout.
This was incredible, the whole time I was thinking, “she has to swim all the way back up right!?” Just wow, I can only imagine the training and dedication
@@proxyzov it doesn't necessarily have to be 3 seconds, as long as it removes any air from your ears which is causing the pressure to cause you pain its enough
That moment at the end where they waited for her to catch her breath before congratulating is one of the most respectful things I have seen in sport and athletics. Wow
Yeah that’s just a usual thing they do in this sport. Cuz sometimes when they reach the top they can still pass out, like if they surface too quickly and don’t adjust to the pressure change, or if their lungs are at its limit.
I may be wrong, but they waited till she pulled the tag/ticket/marker out of her mouth. She grabbed that at the base of the rope. They waited for evidence of success.
@@johnners2981 for my untrained eye diving straight down does look simple but i assume the techniques and preparation they use to handle the immense pressure changes on lungs, eardrums and stuff are probably very advanced and take years of training. my ears start hurting 4-5 meters under water i have no clue how they handle it.
@@johnners2981y’all are trying to booster your ego about being “trained” whatever tf that means. Doesn’t matter if you’re an Olympic gold medalist or a normal dude, this is impressive
Insane watching how little she moves even when getting off of the noddles to start her dive. You can tell she has done this so many times and cut every single extrenuous muscle twitch out of the equation.
@@anthon2915 yes it is :) Simply an exageration on the sensation of instinctively holding my breath simingly indefinitely by watching someone like her perform a sensationnal performance :)
never mind descending i was thinking about how long the decompression must be for the camera man. I'm glad to see she was tethered since I don't see how anyone could do a rescue at 93 meters if she blacked out. Those drones are getting good.
I've been down to 30 metres and looking up was amongst the scariest thing I have ever experienced, knowing that you absolutely have to have sufficient oxygen left in your lungs but no way of checking! It's also a crazy different feeling with the pressure. Let's just say I never wanted to take it further...
When I was younger I was a synchronized swimmer and could hold my breath for two minutes while exerting energy under water (upside down). These days, I can barely make it one minute while sitting still, on land 😂 This woman is amazingly talented and strong! Mad respect 🙌
Yes. In high school, I ate a bag of crackers and drank a can of soda for lunch. I would go running or play a tennis match afterwards. Didn't eat till 7 or 8 pm. Youth!
What i find mesmerizing is the fact that there must incredible pain and discomfort from both not taking a breath aswell as the pressure, yet it seems so serene. This is a real dangerous situation even with assisting divers, but there is nothing indicating that when watching the dive. Absolutely awesome!
I believe to dive for long periods of time, one needs to be in a nearly trance-like state to minimise oxygen usage. Hence why she was just lying there on the surface for a while, to bring her vitals and mind to a state of minimal activity.
It is very difficult to equalise your hears at these depth (like when you are on a plane and the hears hurt until air gets in). Pressure itself is not painful, but your lungs are compressed at the size of a grapefruit. To squeeze some air out to blow your hears is an athletic feat in itself.
for me this is just so frightening to watch... the breathing reflex (I guess it is) setting in on the way down already... just incredible. This stuff gives me serious chills
Its the build up of carbon dioxide that forces your body into that reflex yes, its just knowing you can get past it and forcing yourself to ignore it is something easy for them but scary for just about everyone else
They set a target depth before they dive so the line is preset. They also set it on their dive watch too which tracks the depth so they just need to listen for a beep.
@@jamescordara You can train it. My record was in the swimmingpool with no movement on my own. I think it was around 3 minutes. All this after 8 years of training in a diving school.
Considering what it takes to do this, that’s almost exactly what they did. I doubt they had their eyes open or were doing anything noteworthy in terms of mental function. I can achieve that for about ten seconds while sitting on a comfy sofa.
@@zwischendurundmoll3968 that point where everything goes black is when I would pass out and automatically start breathing again, but I never went that far. You can do it too. It's good to know what that feels like if you free dive so it doesn't happen underwater. I used to do a little fish spearing but never could stay down very long.
Unreal! I knew a guy who could hit 50m and it was absolutely mind boggling. His neon green fins would disappear in crystal clear water for minutes at a time. I can't even imagine double that. Gives me chills.
I just googled that the deepest free dive was 214 meters. Even 93 meters was slightly beyond my imagination, but more than two times that just blows my mind
214 meters is the record for the no limit free diving, meaning using a sled to go down and then go up with a balloon filled with air. So her 93 meters "fully human" is definitely mind blowing !
Crazy how once you get past the buoyancy point, you just sink like a rock Edit: I also have learned how much fun you fat computer scientists must be at parties. “ACKSHUALLYYY”
Is that what’s going on? Hard to tell how quick she was moving with no good reference point other than the occasional discoloration on the rope. But then I saw the meter clock continuing to go up as she did nothing so I thought she had a weight belt she would drop at the bottom. That’s interesting though!
@@nicholaszamelis9471 my understanding is definitely limited, but at some point the water pressure on top of you overpowers the force of the air in you causing you to float, so once you get deep enough, even full of air, you’ll sink.
@@spaarm not the other guy, but think of your lungs as a balloon. The weight of the water pushes against your lungs compressing the air (e.g. the balloon shrinks). It's your giant balloon lungs that make you float. You body is mostly water and bones etc are dense. Eventually the weight of the water has compressed the air so much it's no longer providing enough boyuancy. At that point in time, you will start sinking and stay sinking.
@@ciarancervantes that’s awesome 👏 👏👏 It’s even more awesome that you set goals for yourself and attempt to achieve them! You will do very well in life if you apply that mentality to all aspects of your life 🤩
You can hold your breath longer in water than you can out of it. Try it floating in water with your head above the surface. You can hyperventilate and hold more oxygen in your blood than usual because of the water pressure.
Yup, and that means she doesnt take full breath at the last moment, otherwise she will float. Probably calculated that the oxygen conserved not swimming down is worth the reduced air. Must be only slightly negative buoyant, so it helps on the going upward
Actually I think she took a full breath. At the beginning she is swimming downwards. But when you swim down the air in your lungs compress. At a certain depth, the downward force because of gravity is higher than the upward force of air in her lungs, and thus she will then sink at that height and lower. At least that's my theory
@@AllInHard26 It’s not the pressure it’s the salinity that far down, the saltiest sea water floats on top of the ocean with a gradient of salinity. Science tells us that the saltier the water the more buoyant you are. Scary to think about that the further you dive the easier it is to sink.
Attempting to take a breath at depth when doing freediving like this could be catastrophic, possibly even fatal. Her lungs are compressed due to having taken air at the surface. Every 33-ish feet (10m) of depth adds one atmosphere worth of pressure. Down at the bottom of that line if she were to attempt to take a breath off a scuba regulator she'd be opening her lungs to air at over *9 times* the pressure it was at the surface. All at once. It'd be like shrinking a balloon (her lungs) in a box (her chest cavity), and then slamming it back to full size with a blast of +9 bar compressed air. I don't know if it'd be fatal, but I imagine it'd be very, very dangerous. That's one of the so very many things that's so damn scary about this sport - even if someone is *right there* wearing a tank full of air, and you're drowning, they can't save you. I truly do not understand how these people are terrified all the time.
The training adapts your body to utilize the oxygen as efficiently as possible, and brain damage comes 4+ minutes after all oxygen has been depleted. So really the incredible efficiency these athletes have for 2ish minutes should do little damage to the brain, but they would have to work to dissipate all the lactic acid built up in their muscles from the dive. Their whole bodies would be burning by the end.
for a normal person while drowning (not dead yet), their brain will be so severly damaged after 4 minutes of not breathing under water (and taking in water) that it would be unlikely for them to survive. even if their brain is still alive, it would not function.. the person would be on life support forever. although this isn't always the case as you can watch on bondi rescue ;) - from your local professional lifeguard
Such a humble lady. Just listened to BBC radio 4's , 'from our own correspondent'. The interviewer was so kind. This lady came across as humble and grateful. Inspirational.
There is something absolutely terrifying about the idea of staring at the bottom of the ocean, and kicking downwards with flippers. Hats off to this lady, she's braver than I'll ever be on the open ocean.
@@gawaino4980 it wasn’t sarcasm. This was a joke. It’s like having a child say, I can hold my breath for 10 seconds, beat that. The child knows the swimmer can go longer but they think their 10 seconds is better. Therefore, it being funny to certain people.
I swam on the swim team when I was younger and can hold my breath underwater across the pool but only the 25 m not the 50 m, she’s just built different idk
I will always think of the movie The Big Blue anytime I see footage of people free diving. One of the coolest movies of the 80s and one of my favorites of all time.
Can anyone describe the breathing techniques she was using before going down and when she surfaced? It looks like she’s sipping air and I’m curious how that works
No, at 15-18 meters you would feel how your lungs squeeze and probably won't find any air to equalize. Nobody in the comment's actually understands what an incredible thing this woman did and how much training it took to be able to do that.
If your muscles aren’t moving, you don’t use up as much oxygen. For these sorts of dives, it’s better to just relax and sink…save that oxygen in your blood.
Haja fôlego! Concentração máxima, incrível. O auto controle psicológico conta muito nesta hora! Ela ficou 3 minutos e 14 segundos; conseguiu descer 93 metros, é pra poucos!
@@_Encie Just like her ability to hold her breath for a long period of time, it's obvious that she's trained a long time to be this good at what she does, but it doesn't make it any less amazing.