French touch ;)

Here's the test: Watch the video and hold your breath all the way through it. That's a whole lot easier than what he just did!

I am not up on current freediving rules, and I don't know the current record, but it is basically a Darwin Award in the making. Used to be that the diver descended with a weight on a wire, then finned back to the surface.

And what does the species learn from this exercise?

Ralph

There are several disciplines within freediving. I've corresponded with Guillaume personally as a freediving writer and former freedive editor for Deeperblue.net. He is friends wwith a colleague of mine.

Unless you have a thorough understanding around the mammalian dive reflex and how the human body utilizes it to accomplish what he is capable of, please keep your lack of information to yourself.

as a side note: I've done 30 meters on a single breath swimming down and back up as part of my freedive instructor certification

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Cliff - I reiterate, freediving depth records as well as air scuba depth records are much ado, signifying nothing.

I purchased my first scuba outfit in 1954, (before you were born?) Taught a few hundred people to scuba dive in the early sixties. My underwater cinematography credits include 15 seasons of "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom (four Emmys and a Gold Hugo from the Atllanta Film Fest)," "Smithsonian World ," "Nova," "Omni," the BBC, and other Smithsonian expeditions. I have done Harp Seals under the ice, King Crabs, Shark attack behavior at Enewetak , Sea Snakes in the Coral Sea, and Marine Iguanas in the Galapagos to name a few subjects.

Don't remenber ever freediving to 100 feet, is 85 feet OK? I have been down to 800' in a minisub.

I admire freediving pelagic spearfish guys, there was a good doc on PBS a few years ago, but I really think that animal behavior is where its at.


Ralph