In this remarkable clip, world freediving champion Guillaume Nery stands at the edge of the world’s second deepest underwater sink hole. And he jumps. The ensuing photography is a hypnotic adventure into the impossible.
While Nery contends that no freediver can nor ever will make it to the bottom of Dean’s Blue Hole, he spent four afternoons pulling off the stunts to simulate the effect while girlfriend/freediver Julie Gautier, just as impressively, filmed them (while freediving herself!) with a Canon 5D Mark II. [Julie Gautier via GrindTV]
Mark H
Friday, June 11, 2010 at 8:45 AMNotice that half the YouTube commentors are spending their time debating if its real or not, even though its clearly been labelled as fiction!! They’re even trying to ‘prove’ it by dunking their heads in water:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMZOgaUeNjI
Ridiculous. You can’t have any rational discussion on there.
The video is amazing; shame so many people are misunderstanding it.
james_whatsit
Friday, June 11, 2010 at 6:01 PMholy shite!! kudos to them :) i genrally stay away from big black holes in deep water, they kinda freak me out!!!!!!!!
Liam Saunders
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 at 5:43 PMSimply spectacular.
See the location where it was filmed on BlooSee:
http://bit.ly/buXZbW