Backroom Video Thread

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I don't know a lot about scuba or diving, but shouldn't this sort of thing be, I dunno, physically impossible? More than six hundred feet down on a single breath? Isn't there a phenomenon called the bends? I thought once you got more than two hundred feet down you had to worry about nitrogen bubbles forming your blood and agonizing, crippling pain. Can someone explain to me how this guy does this and lives?

Hmm. Dean's Blue Hole is 202 metres deep. That's an impossible distance. That video is fake, the fakeness is confirmed by the claims of the woman doing the filming that she too is holding her breath.... bollocks. This one though is of the current Free Immersion Apnea (descent using a rope) record of 120 metres held by Herbert Nitsch:


And the current Constant Weight Apnea Without Fins (no aids at all, without changing ballast) is held by William Trubridge at 95 metres (not this vid, this is his earlier record, but you get the idea):


And here is Trubridge going through the Arch at Dahab, Egypt. That's a dive that is insane, plenty of people die there every year trying to get through using scuba gear and running out of air or getting the bends because they underestimate the depth and the distance.