100 meters in ONE BREATH
 

holy crap!

William Trubridge on Monday accomplished what had long been regarded as an impossible feat: swimming to a depth of 100 meters, or 328 feet, on a single breath and with only hands and feet for propulsion.

The New Zealander did not use swim fins; he wore no weights and required no heavy sled during the descent. Nor did he use an inflatable airbag to swiftly reach the surface after his dive.

Trubridge held his breath for 4 minutes, 10 seconds, from start to finish.

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Wow that's insane!

pretty impressive

I would have drowned for sure. haha

he rocks!!!

Kevin Kostner lasted longer than that:upsidedow

Congratulations with 100 meter dive in one breath, William Trubridge.

Ive been deeper and I didn't even hold my breath

Just so you know, as you go down, the air compress's in your lungs, thats the hard part, comming back up, you have to exhale as the air expands. I started at 50 feet in the dive tower in sub school in Groton Conn. and went up from a chamber, it was such a rush!!

nice acomplishment

he may be lucky there are no sharks

Well, if he started from the surface then the air would be surface pressure only... so no compression, or rather no expansion as he came up, because it would be going back to normal pressure.

What I mean is the air in a sub is pressurized so it's going to need more volume as you move to the surface, but in his case it's a standard gulp of normal air.

I can swim a couple lengths of a pool underwater but this is a completely different story.

Most definitely, but there's so many variants of the dive competition, there's like 100 world record holders. You got records with fin, no fin, diff fin size, weight, no weight, inflatable air bubble, no bubble, cold waters, hot waters, blabla. Every fucking difference is a world record. Is like you had 100m discipline with shoes, no shoes, spikes on shoes, runner wearing a hat, runner wearing baggy pants ...
So in reality, there's like 100 guys that could brake that record. This is the only thing i hate about diving records.

crazy time

Nothing is impossible in this world :)

Amazing feat, but he's still no Pelizzari :winkwink:

Actually, as stated before - this isn't true for freediving, since you don't use compressed air. The real problems you're going to face is negative buoyancy and blackouts. But that's what the rescue divers are for I guess.. :upsidedow

Since this has never been done before, I don't know that there are "100 guys that could break that record".

Rather, he set a new unassisted freediving record and achieved the historic 100-meter mark -- previously attained only in an assisted manner, with weighted sleds and airbags -- while wearing only a thin wetsuit and displaying remarkable power of mind over body.


link to story
http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/blog/...+world+record/

I've seen worse

I wonder how long he could hold in a bong hit for?

also a nice video from him https://youtube.com/watch?v=hrXQbucZUDA

Did you read the comments?

Nice one :

:1orglaugh

well done!!

He cheated though.

Damn muties and their gills. :D

You obviously did not understand what i wrote about.

The "100 people" that could do it are the same ones that hold records in all the other tiny difference categories they have in diving. Re-read again.

I did read what you wrote. You said that diving 100 meters underwater with fins/weights(assisted) vs without fins/weights(unassisted) is the same. Therefor anyone who can hold a record in one category can hold in another. I don't agree with you. I believe they are similar, yes, but different capabilities.


As for the all the "tiny difference categories" or "'100 world record holders", I am not sure what you mean. Here are the records recognized by AIDA, if you are interested.

http://www.impulseadventure.com/free...ld-record.html

http://www.aida-international.org/

No weights - that is pretty cool! Although I read that at some point, you will just start to sink - weights or not.

There may be many varieties of records, but I'd never heard of someone free diving to that kind of depth, usually they latch onto a kind of lift that drags them down, and all they have to do is hold on and not die (Which is hard enough, I'm not knocking it) this guy SWIMS down like a goddamn whale? He's not even grabbing onto the line to pull himself down.

Try holding your breath just sitting there in your chair, now imagine doing the same underwater while swimming strenuously against your own buoyancy. Holy crap.

Also swimming with fins is completely different to swimming without them, those things make you whoosh along a lot faster

:) every man with his dream...

Pretty amazing achievement.

That's truly impressive.

i would have drowned at 20 feet.

Yea, i was correct, you did not understand what i wrote. Never have i said it's the same.
This, however, is what is true.

Just because this particular person focuses on this type of dive discipline does not make him any better then the 100 other world record holders. They just don't compete in other disciplines and that's that. Like i gave you running examples.

Imagine if you had running disciplines on 100 meters with shoes, no shoes, baggy pants, shoes with spikes, shoes with no spikes etc etc, and you had 10 record holders. You think others could not brake that record if they trained to remove the silly obstacle put up to invent an imaginary new discipline? Of course they could.

That's why this "new" record you decided to make a thread of is silly. They should just make 1 or 2 disciplines and compete there to really see who's the best.

Could you please show me the 100 other world record holders in diving? Since you didn't check the links I gave to show the 8 disciplines recognized by AIDA I would love to know what the other 92 records you keep claiming are. As for the 8, since you didn't want to click on the link, here they are

Freediving World Records - Men
Discipline/ Result/ Competitor/ Nationality/ Date
Static Apnea/ 11:35/ Stephane Mifsud/ France/ 2009-06-08
Dynamic Apnea with Fins/ 250 m/ Alexey Molchanov/ Russia/ 2008-10-05
Dynamic Apnea without Fins/ 213 m/ Dave Mullins/ New Zealand/ 2008-08-12
Constant Weight with Fins/ 124 m/ Herbert Nitsch/ Germany/ 2010-04-22
Constant Weight without Fins/ 95m/ William Trubridge/ New Zealand/ 2010-04-26
Free Immersion/ 120 m/ Herbert Nitsch/ Austria/ 2010-04-25
Variable Weight/ 142 m/ Herbert Nitsch/ Austria/ 2009-12-07
No Limits/ 214 m/ Herbert Nitsch/ Germany/ 2007-06-14

Static Apnea
Maximum time holding breath while submerged under water. This is generally done face-down in a swimming pool.
Dynamic Apnea
Maximum distance covered horizontally under water.
Constant Weight / Constant Ballast
Maximum depth reached by a diver by swimming down and back up without any assistance (eg. line, sled, etc.). Records exist for both with fins and without fins.
Free Immersion
Maximum depth reached by pulling oneself down and up on the competition line. No fins are used.
Variable Weight / Variable Ballast
Maximum depth reached by a diver on a weighted sled before swimming back to the surface either by kicking and/or pulling on a rope.
No Limits
Maximum depth reached by a diver on a weighted sled before being pulled to the surface by a lift bag that is inflated by the diver at depth. This is the discipline that receives the most publicity because of the extreme depths that have been reached. It is also the discipline that has given the sport the most bad publicity because of one or two highly-publicized accidents (eg. Audrey Mestre).

And the reason I made the thread is that this is the first time anyone has ever swam down to 100 meters and swam back up with no assistance. That, to me, is an incredible feat. Again, the first time ever done. But hey, if you think it is silly, then fine. I guess I would just wonder why you would want to keep posting then, and what those other 92 records are...

wow , that's amazing :)

and yes, again, I read what you wrote.


you are writing that the 100 guys who have the other 100 world records could break this one. As I said, I simply don't agree. No harm, no foul. And since this is the first time anyone has made it to 100 meters unassisted, down and up, then to me that is a significant record. One that anyone who has spent time in the water can respect.

Now, about those 100 records you keep talking about, where are they again?

I'm sorry, but a "world record" by definition is something someone made for the first time in the whole world, so how's this any different then any other world record in diving i don't see it. You keep bringing that up, but it's the same as any other world record.
I am obviously exaggerating when i say 100, but you have named 8. There are more if you include cold water diving (i don't know which association carries those), but i know there's several more disciplines again in cold waters (like polar ice water) etc.

So yes, those 8, plus the other few, is really not necessary, and im quite sure all of the other world record holders could brake the other's record if they focused on that. It's why they need way less variations so that we really see what a human is capable of. This way, it's just a way to be famous and make extra money.
Just think about my example with runners. It's quite similar to this, because fins/weights/etc indeed do make a significant difference while you dive, but so would shoes/no shoes/spikes etc make a difference if you ran (we don't even get into weather conditions). Think how stupid olimpycs would look if you had 10 different 100m contests, then multiply that with all the other running disciplines...
It's all im trying to put across really.

deep blue shit! congrats on this!

NO ONE has ever swam down to 100 meters and swam back up with no assistance what so ever. This is the first time. I would think that fits your definition.


I am simply listing the 8 that are recognized by AIDA. According to their website...
AIDA only recognizes these 8 categories as official disciplines for world records and competitions; other kind of "similar" or "different" categories could only be considered as "demonstration disciplines", without any sanctionned world record. Men and women's records exist for each category. No other subdivision of these categories are considered (eg: lake/sea, altitude, under ice, 25/50 meter's pool, tandem-sled, etc)
http://www.aida-international.org/

The 8 records (for men) are held by 4 different people. But lets look closer.
Static apnea (holding your breath)-S Mifsud
Dynamic (distance covered horizontally) with and without fins(2 records)-D Mulins
Constant Weight (swim down and up) no fins- W Trubridge (guy we are talking about)
Constant Weight with fins, Free Immersion, Variable Weight and No Limit(4)-H Nitsch

So really, one guy has a lock on all but the record we are talking about when it comes to going down and coming back up. Not sure how rich or famous he is though.


I am glad we agree that swimming with fins is different than swimming without. And since these records are all about distance (depth), I would think you could then see how it would be impossible to compare with fins vs without. Just looking at the records themselves it is obvious how much of a difference there is in meters. So a comparison to running with shoes vs without does not hold water (get it-lol) as there have been distance runners (record holders even) who have chosen to run shoeless.

Obviously the guy who has the record with fins isn't going to break this record, neither is the guy who has the static record, or the guy who gets down using a weight.

It's a bit like saying the fastest cyclist would beat the fastest runner once he got off his bike.