Reef base jumping

bkelly · #1 05-29-2011, 06:18 AM

man thats unreal i thought hed grab a scuba tank at the bottom

lastlight · #2 05-29-2011, 06:44 AM

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Originally Posted by bkelly

man thats unreal i thought hed grab a scuba tank at the bottom

Well it is of course edited footage =) Not to say those dive folks couldn't pull it off...

MarkoD · #3 05-29-2011, 02:50 PM

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Originally Posted by lastlight

Well it is of course edited footage =) Not to say those dive folks couldn't pull it off...

and its in slow motion so it probably took less than 3 min. plus they obviously did it multiple times since there are different camera angles(that done appear in each others shot)

mark · #4 05-29-2011, 04:40 PM

of course it's edited, but editing aside, have to admit it's a good clip

asylumdown · #5 05-30-2011, 11:03 PM

I watched a thing on that video, the guy is like the world champion free diver or something and it was filmed by his girlfriend, who was also a world champion free diver. I think they said that video was 5 or 6 different dives edited together, so they might have had an air supply hidden somewhere.

ScubaSteve · #6 05-30-2011, 11:42 PM

I actually had the chance to meet Nery shortly after this vid was made. He said that it was definitely not a single dive to made the vid. He never meant for it to be a "look what I can do on a sinle breath" but more of an aesthetic video that explained how he felt about freediving, that to him it was like basejumping, only underwater. So they decided to film it a la basejumping style. He said it was impossible to reach the bottom of the hole as it's like 200+m deep (last time I checked the record was 124m last year). In the video, what looks like the bottom is just a ledge part way down.

It is by far one of my favourite videos!

lastlight · #7 05-31-2011, 12:57 AM

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Originally Posted by mark

of course it's edited, but editing aside, have to admit it's a good clip

Oh without a doubt that's an amazing clip =) I loved it! But we also get curious afterwards about how such amazing things came to be lol...

Delphinus · #8 05-31-2011, 05:55 AM

Those free drivers are crazy. I can sort of understand the appeal of the perfect silence underwater .. but uh .. yeah. Those guys are crazy!