Posted on 08/11/2022 8:00:20 AM PDT by BenLurkin
A 26-year-old French man has left many astounded as he descended to a depth of 120m (393 ft) in three minutes and 34 seconds.
Arnaud Jerald has broken the world record for deepest dive with bi-fins on August 9, the BBC reported. He accomplished the feat during the annual Vertical Blue competition in the Bahamas. The BBC report said it is the seventh time he has broken the world record.
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I’ve never heard of such fins. I guess I’m Bi-Curious.
That’s a crazy extreme sport. Almost 400 ft deep while holding your breath. No scuba gear. My ears hurt if I dive 10 ft deep.
Free diving is nothing short of Russian roulette... So many big names have died trying to be the best/deepest. I gotta say I’m not too surprised when I read yet another article about someone dieing in the sport...
Very impressive, also very dangerous. Glad he made it.
I once held my breath for 4:06, but I was lying down, not doing anything strenuous like swimming. Don’t know if I could go one minute now.
No pressure in this sport. /s
I saw what you did there.
Does he still have his hearing ?
They generally aren’t doing anything strenuous. The are pulled down by a weight on a guide wire.
For perspective, the Andrea Doria (1956) wreck is at 160 feet deep, Carl D Bradley (1958) at 360 feet in Lake Michigan, both sections of Daniel J Morrell (1966) at 200 feet in Lake Huron.
This guy is remarkable, but this is a dangerous sport.
Meh. I can go about 8 feet and then my ears crap out. 🤔😎✌
They still have to swim back up, though.
A Mono-Fin is a single fin where your feet are in that single fin in adjacent pockets. Bi-Fins are just a fin to each foot — the type you see in Sea Hunt reruns.
For free diving they use a very long rigid fin, perhaps stiffened with fiberglass structure.
He is no Tanya Streeter
When I was a kid, I could do 100 meters by diving into a 50 meter pool swimming across and back. In snorkeling in middle age I could go about fifty foot deep and I loved to do that in big schools of tropical fish in the Keys or in Hawaii.
My youngest son almost had a panic attack when he saw a small school of 6’ barracuda swim over me. He was snorkeling on the surface and I was about 30 feet below him.
Too old now I imagine but I would still try it if I ever get to the tropics again.
Knowing not much about it, what’s the danger of getting the bends in this sport and how do they avoid it?
I hate to be gloomy and I admire risktakers trying to achieve their goal but these guys die at an alarming rate
And girls to that girl who died in the Bahamas was very pretty I’ve done a lot of risky things in my life but I’ve never been interested in free diving like that I don’t think I’ve ever been below 1 atm 30 maybe 40 feet and believe that you can feel it
I never did scuba below 60 I don’t think the bottom of the reef
Anyone here been deep free diving I’d like to hear about it
I want to the bottom of dale hollow lake near the bank actually and it was very deep looking for my Vaurnet sunglasses 200 bucks by my houseboat
I found them
We sounded it and it was around 30 or so which in ice cold murky black water felt damn deep
I was 38
At 65 I can hold it still a minute or so easy
Back then I could do two minutes plus inert in a pool
Now my bottom lung lobed are sealed with scar tissue
I find this so intriguing
How far can they go
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