Via Youtube: On May 12, 2013, a shorter version of this piece won the 2012 CNN AWARD for Best Original Reporting. (The video is sole property of Baraka Productions LLC. Any company claiming this video will be liable in courts. This content is protected under DMCA Laws.)
It looks simple, you hold your breath and go as deep into the water as you can. But as William Trubridge has learned, triumphing in the dangerous world of freediving is all about mind over matter. Filmmaker Nicolas Rossier spent 2 days in Long Island, Bahamas to interview and film the world champion freediver.
Camera: Tim Calver & Nicolas Rossier Editing: Cameron Clendaniel Production: Nicolas Rossier & Tami Woronoff
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William Trubridge via Wikipedia:
William Trubridge (born on 24 May 1980) is a world champion and double world record holding freediver from New Zealand.[1] He was born in the UK but moved to New Zealand when he was 18 months old. [2]
As of 2013 Trubridge held the world record in the free immersion and the constant weight without fins disciplines, and was the first to break the 100m barrier unassisted.
Trubridge mainly competes in the depth disciplines. He additionally scored the highest number of points for an individual at the 2010 Freediving Team’s World Championships held in Okinawa, Japan.
On 18 January 2011, Trubridge won the World’s Absolute Freediver Award (WAFA) naming him best all around freediver, with the highest combined score in six freediving disciplines: static apnea, dynamic apnea with fins, dynamic apnea without fins (pool disciplines), constant weight apnea with fins, constant weight without fins, and free immersion (depth disciplines).
Trubridge is an Apnea Academy instructor and as of 2013 operated a freediving school and annual competition, both called Vertical Blue, atDean’s Blue Hole in Long Island, Bahamas from September to May. During the summer he teaches courses in Europe and trains at Tenerife Top Training Center.
Trubridge is the main subject of a documentary entitled “Breathe” directed by Martin Khodabakhshian, which documents Trubridge’s pursuits in 2010 to become the first free diver ever to reach 300 feet with a single breath in the discipline of constant weight no fins.
Thanks Guys for this extraordinary little movie . I never really heard about this sport before today .