Wanna see something really cool?

[Mr Darcy]

Take one 200M blue hole, a couple of free divers and a base jump! Totaly awesome video this.

http://www.koreus.com/video/guillaume-nery-trou-bl...

[Jasandjules]

Not a chance of me doing that. Now, BASE jump Angel Falls - I'd love to. Dive with a Great White - yes please. But that? Hell no..........

[Mr Darcy]

You have to admit though, that it is pretty impressive.

[007 VXR]

thats mad

[GTIR]

dibbers006 said:

Makes me gasp for air and feel claustrophobic just watching and I didn't have issue with either.

EFA

[spurs-442]

Mr Darcy said:

You have to admit though, that it is pretty impressive.

Very much so - I'm always amazed with people holding their breath for that amount of time too - I was waiting for a diver to give him oxygen when he got to the bottom.

[Silver940]

[Mr Darcy]

The depth of that hole is about 200M however the actual dive was about 100M.

I have spoken to a few free divers in my time and they all just say that its a matter of convincing yourself and your body that it has enough oxygen in it to survie. Not that I am saying dive down and tell yourself this and hey presto your a free diver, it does actaully take a hell of a lot of training and conditioning to do even short dives of say 30M.

[Summertime]

Sod that

[Fartgalen]

Some pressure on the old lug-holes there !

[WorAl]

Very good, how do people hold their breaths so long, I can do about 1 min 15 seconds, but if I moved around that time is drastically cut down and I start gasping. Tried it once under water and it wasn't fun when I almost breathed before getting to surface, had to really force myself not to.

[Plotloss]

World record for holding one's breath is a bit over 17 minutes.

Incredible really.

[Mr Darcy]

Years of practice and yoga. Even for normal divers yoga will improve your air consumption.

[Dan_1981]

Brilliant video that.

I will now how recurring nightmare of that bit when he comes to stand on the top of the hole and his feet are sliding through the soft sand, and you just can't stop your self going over the edge..... arrrrgggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

And he looks ridiculously cool stood on the edge of the hole just waiting to go.

[dirty boy]

WorAl said:

Very good, how do people hold their breaths so long, I can do about 1 min 15 seconds, but if I moved around that time is drastically cut down and I start gasping. Tried it once under water and it wasn't fun when I almost breathed before getting to surface, had to really force myself not to.

I have no idea, lots of training.

I'll give it another go tomorrow in the pool, but I usually swim 50 lengths (20m pool) then stop and do two lengths underwater along the bottom of the pool.

If I were to have a go before doing the 50 lengths i'd possibly be able to manage 3 lengths?

Not sure how long that takes?

I'm holding my breath now.

[dirty boy]

2 mins relatively comfortable (didn't want to start gasping for air in the office )

I suppose with training it'd be possible, but it's the energy used to get back to the surface that'd freak me.

[dirty boy]

Plotloss said:

World record for holding one's breath is a bit over 17 minutes.

Incredible really.

Incredible indeed.

Given that, I suppose this guy had plenty left in the tank.

[Evangelion]

Find that really difficult to watch - I don't like heights at the best of times!

[MX-Si]

Great video, i was half-expecting him to bump in to some of the aliens from The Abyss!!!

This is a pretty cool dive story,it's quite long but an excellent read:

http://outside.away.com/outside/features/200508/da...

[tribbles]

Evangelion said:

Find that really difficult to watch - I don't like heights at the best of times!

Except it's depths in this case