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Man with b***s of steel jumps into world's largest sinkhole with no gear
Roadtrippers.com ^ | 04 May, 2014 | staff

Posted on 07/02/2014 9:06:09 AM PDT by Rebelbase

Video at link.

French free diver Guillaume Nery jumped into the largest sinkhole on Earth with no scuba gear, no snorkel, no gear of any sort. Just a pair of massive, rock hard cojones. "Dean's Blue Hole" is a 663-ft deep sinkhole in the Bahamas.

A couple helpful little factoids to aid you in understanding the gravitas of Guillaume's dive. The average human being can hold their breath for 45 seconds - or a minute if they have an exceptionally healthy set of lungs. After that, your body essentially starts to suffocate, as cells in your organs shut down from lack of oxygen. Typically, this is when your body initiates panic mode, and will automatically try and thrust you to the surface. Rapid changes in pressure also affect the brain and bloodflow - too quick a descent can cause blackouts, bloody noses or popped eardrums. Anyone who has dived into a ten foot pool will tell you, you definitely feel a change in pressure at the bottom. At a depth of 663 feet (which is just the depth of the whole, not the full dive) there's a pressure of 287 psi. To give you some frame of reference - normal tire pressure (which holds up your entire car, which may weigh in at over 2 tons) is around 44 - 50 psi. - StarPulse

With only one lung-full of air, Guillaume swims all the way to the bottom of the sinkhole and then back up. Freedivers are able to condition their lungs to enable them to hold more oxygen. The journey to the bottom of the sinkhole took 4 heart pounding minutes.


TOPICS: Outdoors
KEYWORDS: deansbluehole; freediving; guillaumenery; sinkholes; suicidalnut
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Wow.


1 posted on 07/02/2014 9:06:09 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Rebelbase

That is beyond crazy, it’s stupid.


2 posted on 07/02/2014 9:15:14 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: Rebelbase
If your balls are bigger than your brain, you are apt to do stupid things.

3 posted on 07/02/2014 9:19:04 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: Rebelbase

I hit the “get me out of here” state at the bottom of a 12 foot swimming pool.

Did this guy have spotters with a spare O2 tank in case he blacked out?


4 posted on 07/02/2014 9:19:53 AM PDT by heartwood
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To: heartwood

Don’t know. at 600’+ depth I’m guessing a remote submersible followed him down and filmed him at the bottom.


5 posted on 07/02/2014 9:22:27 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Yeah, I’m kinda curious how he managed to avoid getting the bends.


6 posted on 07/02/2014 9:27:52 AM PDT by drbuzzard (All animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others.)
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To: Rebelbase

When I was a teen we used to swim in what were called locally “blue holes”, essentially abandoned rock quarries that had filled with water. We would jump off ledges 20-30 feet high, some where you had to run off to clear other rocks below. There would be the occasional drownings when someone got trapped below under a ledge (none when I was ever around). We were always warned against going there but we were teens.


7 posted on 07/02/2014 9:30:29 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
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To: Blood of Tyrants

I predict that he will not die in bed, of old age!


8 posted on 07/02/2014 9:33:19 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: drbuzzard

He is free diving. No compressed air thus the only nitrogen inhaled is that first and only lungful. But there have been cases after repetitive free diving where the nitrogen has not been out gassed.


9 posted on 07/02/2014 9:36:40 AM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: Blood of Tyrants

According to Guillaume Nery himself, this is fake.


10 posted on 07/02/2014 9:42:12 AM PDT by Edward Teach
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To: Rebelbase

Yeah, wow! That was other-worldly. Music was well chosen.


11 posted on 07/02/2014 9:42:14 AM PDT by cyn (Benghazi)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

“Hold my beer”, he was heard to say just prior to the dive.


12 posted on 07/02/2014 9:42:37 AM PDT by bubbacluck (America 180)
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To: drbuzzard

It is very rare for the bends to occur on the in and out dives.


13 posted on 07/02/2014 9:43:39 AM PDT by deadrock (I am someone else.)
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To: Rebelbase
You wanna see balls o' steel, check out Mr. Fred Dibnah.

No net, no harness

14 posted on 07/02/2014 9:45:22 AM PDT by Eric Pode of Croydon
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To: Edward Teach

http://www.brobible.com/life/article/13158555-updated-10-reasons-why-underwater-base-jumper-guillaume-nerys-dean/


15 posted on 07/02/2014 9:47:25 AM PDT by cyn (Benghazi)
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To: Eric Pode of Croydon

It makes me queasy just watching him.


16 posted on 07/02/2014 9:50:43 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: drbuzzard
Yeah, I’m kinda curious how he managed to avoid getting the bends.

This has sort of been addressed in that he's not breathing compressed air. There is also a time factor in nitrogen narcosis. He went to 600+ feet, but not for very long.

17 posted on 07/02/2014 9:51:24 AM PDT by tpmintx (Gun free zones are hunting preserves for unarmed people.)
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To: Rebelbase

Nice vid.... but not real.

Real: http://vimeo.com/7023806


18 posted on 07/02/2014 9:56:05 AM PDT by MarineBrat (Better dead than red!)
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To: Rebelbase

Balls of steel?

No. More like:

Brains of rock.


19 posted on 07/02/2014 10:01:37 AM PDT by Nik Naym (It's not my fault... I have compulsive smartass disorder.)
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To: Rebelbase
At a depth of 663 feet (which is just the depth of the whole...

Whole?

-PJ

20 posted on 07/02/2014 10:04:14 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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