William Winram 145m Freediving World Record (VWT)
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Length: 4min 59sec (299 seconds)
Published: Thu Jan 02 2014
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Anyone know the problems that this could cause to his body?
Wow, that's impressive.
Reminds me of a story from way back in 1990. I was in college and the film Navy Seals was in theaters. A couple of buddies and I rented a pontoon boat on a lake for a day. The lake was meant to be restricted from swimming, and the rental agreement had a "no swimming" clause. I think the boat might even have had a no swimming/diving sign on it.
Whatever. We got into the middle of the lake, and I grabbed the anchor, and shouted "look at me, I'm a Navy Seal!" and rolled backwards off the deck with the anchor clutched to my chest.
Oh shit. I sank a lot faster than I had expected. For some reason I had this vision of me just floating gently to the bottom of the lake (only like 25 feet) riding the anchor down.
Instead I dropped, well, like a rock, and by about 12-15 feet panicked and let go of the anchor, clawing my way back to the surface, gasping for air.
My buddies could not stop laughing at me. "Bwahahaha, yeah you're a Navy Seal alright. Now let's see you get back on the boat."
There was no swim ladder. From the water, I could barley reach the edge of the deck, let alone pull my pudgy college-boy ass back aboard. Also, just a small electric trolling motor, neither large enough nor in the right position to use it as a step.
So they let me struggle for a bit before hauling back up.
I won't be breaking any free diving records.
There is arguably more luck than skill involved in breaking these records.
One thing to note is that when he surfaces the guy looks great, he is alert, has a smile on his face, responds quickly when questioned, etc.. Very often these guys come back to the surface and can either immediately black out or have the cognitive function of a potato. That's why they had to wait for the white card to be shown before celebrating. If you surface and then can't respond and are impaired then the record is not valid.
Experienced free dive instructors with years of experience and a high level of fitness have died in less than 30ft of water. The extremes of free diving are reserved for nutjobs. They are just rolling the dice, hoping not to roll snake eyes. Same goes for the scuba divers attempting depth records on open circuit scuba.
This gives me anxiety. I can barley dive down in the deep end of my local pool lol
These guys are hard core. The safety divers don't even carry Oxygen.
I wholeheartedly recommend The Big Blue from 1988. By Luc Besson. Jean Reno is excellent in it.
As a curiosity for people who might not know, in order for the record to count you have to remain conscious for a few minutes after surfacing (can’t remember how many.) A woman broke a record many years ago but she was disqualified because she passed out like two min after surfacing.
That's 79,287 fathoms for those wondering!
George Bluth