It hurts my ears going to the bottom of a swimming pool.
How do these people do it?
I just saw that the current world record is 214 meters. That's 702 feet. That's crazy.
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No! I think the free diving version we see in the film is Constant Weight Apnea (CWT). The current male world record holder (set in 2013) is Alexey Molchanov from Russia who set a record of 128 metres = just under 420 feet, deeper than we see in the film, but a long way shy of 702 feet.🐭
shareNo, in the movie it's definitely No Limits Apnoea as described
NLT is a record discipline that allows the athlete to use any means of breath-hold diving to depth and return to the surface as long as a guideline is used to measure the distance. Most divers use a weighted sled to dive down and use an inflatable bag to return to the surface.
on this page:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freediving
Constant Weight Apnoea has no sled, and participants are only allowed to grasp the line to start and stop their descent. The 'constant weight' refers to the fact they're not allowed to drop carried weights off themselves to alter their buoyancy.
I certainly couldn't imagine them using the less glamorous and shallower version of freediving in a rare movie about freediving.
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I think you're right. I guess it proves in this case that even given the passage of 28 years, truth is indeed greater than fiction.🐭
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