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1. Freediving World Record - 88m without fins

6 months ago

William Trubridge breaks the freediving world record without fins with a dive to 88m (288 feet) in 3:30 in Dean's Blue Hole, Bahamas.
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Łukasz Klimczak 6 months ago

Great achievemnt!
casaucao 6 months ago

awesome!!! great job!
Matt McDaniel 5 months ago

amazing
fakeCompany 4 months ago

so calming!
NadajemyTV 4 months ago

amazing absolutely relaxing and amazing :)
Marc M 3 months ago

You are amazing !
vimeo.com/6247706
Memo Arikok 3 months ago

Bravo William! Keep up the great work please.
Jason 2 months ago

Great!!! Really great!!!
Soxiam 2 months ago

this is an amazing video. thanks for sharing this on vimeo.
william trubridge 2 months ago

Thanks Soxiam, and thanks for adding the video to the Staff Picks! To answer your other question, I obviously wasn't shooting the video, but I did edit it with FCP.
Cheers, William.
jose luis 1 month ago

Hi William, just had to log on to this webpage....it´s absolutely incredible what you did...just needed to write something about the feelings it made me watch it. thanks for it. and congrats!
advanced 2 months ago

aaaaaaaaaaaAAMAZING woooowwwwoow
Imleavingyou 2 months ago

Shit man...totally awesome.
Zack Gietek 2 months ago

speechless.....unreal
Daniel Hayek 2 months ago

Wow, this is great! One technical question though, how did he do that with goggles? The incredible pressure build up on masks is typically equalized with a burst of air from the nose but in this case that's not possible b/c these are goggles. So how does he keep his eyes from bruising?
william trubridge 2 months ago

I am using fluid goggles: they have lenses mounted that compensate for the defraction of light, and allow you to fill the goggles with water.
That way there is no airspace to equalise.
W.
Daniel Hayek 2 months ago

Whoa! I've never heard of those very cool! Do you have brand name or a link to their manufacturer's website?

One more tech question, how thick is your wetsuit? It looks really thin and you don't appear to be wearing any weights. Just wondering.
Daniel Hayek 2 months ago

Oh never mind found these- liquivision.com/fluidgoggles.php
william trubridge 2 months ago

I used a 1.5mm Orca Free wetsuit, the only one-piece wetsuit specifically developed for the sport. This is still a prototype, but will be released January 2010.
william trubridge 2 months ago

The brand I use for fluid goggles is:
monofins.co.nz/
Alex 2 months ago

Amazing dive! Great video! Who is the music by?
Andrzej Hulimka 2 months ago

It's John Murphy track, called "Surface oF The Sun", from Danny Boyle's movie "Sunshine"

Wonderful achievement and so peaceful video.
oren krimchansky 2 months ago

double amazing!
Andrea Allen 2 months ago

Congratulations! That's an awesome achievement.
Gregor Zupanc 2 months ago

Amazing achievement and really beautiful, meditative video! Great music as well! Respect!

What do you feel when you are down there? And how did you feel when you came back to the surface?
dagbert 2 months ago

Mesmerizing video. What an athlete!
Fabio Varesano 2 months ago

Simply wonderful.. thanks for sharing
w.pasman 2 months ago

Wow 88 meters and 3.5 minutes, amazing !
How do you equalize your ears?
Counterbugs 2 months ago

288 feet? Thats insane. Unbelievable it takes effort to swim to the bottom of an 8 foot deep pool for most unskilled folk.

Cool brother....great work.
Flavio Chan 2 months ago

Wow! Congratulations!
Daniel Lofredo Rota 2 months ago

i can;t even imagine how high you'd feel after a plunge like that!
Frederic Vercammen 2 months ago

And breathe out ... ;-)
Congratulations man !
Jack Nelson 2 months ago

im a former distance swimmer . . . there's a whole lot of conditioning/pain in getting your body to accept that kind of oxygen debt . . . not to mention atmospheres of pressure on the body . .. my ears started to bled after about 30 meters . . . phenomenal.
Mouli Cohen 2 months ago

astounding. congratulations, what a feat!
Emrys Roberts 2 months ago

That was unbelievably kickass!!!
VNZKEE 2 months ago

wow, william! i am truly inspired.
Aaron Greene 2 months ago

So amazing what the human mind and body can achieve. Well done!! Thank you for sharing!!!
OfcaPL 2 months ago

amazing! and down there it was scaredy dark.. respect!! :D
/srry4my eng/
Matthew Buchanan 2 months ago

Superhuman. For anyone interested, here's a radio interview William did for 95bFM following his 86m world record in 2008: mattbu.ch/31417414
william trubridge 2 months ago

Hi Matt, I never listened to that interview, and I'm a big fan of Mikey Havoc. Your site's down for maintenance, but please let me know when I can download the audio file!
Matthew Buchanan 2 months ago

Sorry, Tumblr went down about 30 seconds after I posted that. It's back up now, or alternatively the original page with a link to the MP3 file is here: 95bfm.com/default,187147.sm
william trubridge 2 months ago

thanks for that!
Cavin Brothers 2 months ago

I'm speechless... Do you let the air out of your lungs before you begin the dive? It looked like you were basically sinking while going down and that swimming up was the hard part. Thanks!
william trubridge 2 months ago

I take in as much air as possible, but the pressure, which increases with depth, compresses the lungs, meaning at a certain depth I lose all my buoyancy and can sink, in what we call the 'freefall' phase.
James NomadRip 1 month ago

Thanks for that explanation. I was trying to figure out why you were able to continue further down when you stopped the swim strokes. You obviously weren't being towed. I did not know that occurs.
jimmac 2 months ago

You make all the pain look so peaceful and relaxing :)
JOSE LOJO 2 months ago

Bravo,buen trabajo.
artsaddicted 2 months ago

totally strestful(for me) but at the same time just amazing!
John Duthie 2 months ago

wow, i can't even hold my breath that long while sitting in a chair
joshua bermudez 2 months ago

crazzyyy
Sarkey One 2 months ago

Wow! Lost for words, well done.

Respectfully Sarkey One
Evan Mileus 2 months ago

Ive always though freediving was awesome, but It wasnt until watching this that I understand WHY people do it.
Marijane Miracle 2 months ago

WAOUHHHHHHH ! Life can be great sometime ! What a second birth ! He's great !
Centurion 2 months ago

Woaw amazing !!!
_Syd (Khurram) 2 months ago

real courage !!! absolutely amazing.. i love it.
Juan Paez 2 months ago

WOW...I can dive 12 ft lol. Truly amazing
Mihnea de Vries 2 months ago

great! no weights, no lift back too surface! amazing, no fins!!! what about pressure in the ears? do you use some special in-ear cover ?
klemens gann 2 months ago

I got goosebumps watching this. beautiful
Andrey Gayvoronsky 2 months ago

damn.....my personal record 10m :))) but i'm not diver. can't understand how it's possible - ears pressure, for example. Congrats, man! u'r the one who shows that we don't really know limitation of human.

p.s.: what music is playing at background?
Ishtarani 2 months ago

so graceful as you dive down to the deep unknown... and rise up to the familiar Light.. This film reminded me of the whales I met last year in the clear endless Atlantic waters of the wild Azores.. u must qualify as an honorary merman!
Alex Hager 2 months ago

How did you manage to not breath for that long? I saw you did some sort of exercise before hand.

And congrats!
freeboarder 2 months ago

Wow thats amazing! Such concentration, I would want to go faster but he focused the whole time and kept it together. Incredible!
Sören Danielsson 1 month ago

OMG! goosebumps
Anthony Meadows 1 month ago

'sunshine' soundtrack FTW!
elhombreorquesta 1 month ago

the blue...
Cielosurf 1 month ago

super man status
Ron Hansen 1 month ago

that gave me chills. amazing.
Themoodymann 1 month ago

Totally SUUUUPERB !!! You make it look so easy !!

Can't put into words really ....
Steffan Schulz 1 month ago

Phenomenal! The Big Blue.
Remy Disch 1 month ago

fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lukasz Cacko 1 month ago

I've watched this clip probably a hundred times now. This totally amazes me! Thanks William for sharing your talent with us! I DO have a question. If your lungs are 1/20th the normal size at depth, how do you not run out of oxygen? I tried to research this myself with no luck though. BTW, I live west coast of FL and am going to try this sport out! Thanks again for sharing, and CONGRATS!
NIco A. 1 month ago

wow! that's really hapening... when i was a kid i saw the movie "deep blue" and i was fascinated geting deeper and deeper under water, until one summer i had a ears problem and the next summer the same and now i can't get deeper than 3 meters... :S
Marcin Bankok 1 month ago

Wwwwooooow !
iwantback 1 month ago

mis felicitaciones en español woooow!!!
Fredrik Jeppsson 1 month ago

Amazing.
Mike Boyd 1 month ago

I love diving but that would scare the sh*t out of me. Amazing feat. Well done.
jake blake 1 month ago

i like it
Rafael M. 1 month ago

wow. i was at the edge of my seat since it began.

congrats, that was amazing!
willyballsam 1 month ago

way to go!
citreæ 1 month ago

Amazing display of a (trained) body and mind is capable of. The music was the extra to give me goose bumps all over.
Eric Demibee 1 month ago

Inspiring. I will try to remember this video any time a task seems too difficult to attempt.
Deichgraf 1 30 days ago

That was amazing ! Great job . Thank you for sharing .
George Yiannibas 28 days ago

Words are not enough to describe my feelings when watching your video William. A true testament to the incredible abilities of man! I dare say that of all the competitive styles of freediving yours is the purest one because you don't use any aids to propel you. Of course I say this with the greatest respect to the legends like Jacques Mayol or Umberto Pelizzari who held records in the No Limits category. Thank you so much for sharing this video, a true inspiration for a beginner swimmer like me.
Vagelis Apostolos 27 days ago

William you made me cry seeing your achievement..you are the most characteristic evidence of will..when mind says to do it then body just follows..but it's so difficult to control the mind...welldone William!!
Iain Hannay 25 days ago

Amazing, its been said before, but this was amazing.
Robert W Preiss 24 days ago

Oh sure! Amazing, but let me see you do it eating an apple!

LoL
Mustaine 22 days ago

Amazing.what I can not understand: how can you dive down with no weights in salty water?
ayudha 17 days ago

coool man!
Free and Real 5 days ago

amazing!