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This is Danish freediver Stig Pryds.
He is disabled.
I'm able-bodied and I can't even doggy paddle for more than 30 seconds before I get winded.
Full video: https://youtu.be/d9dufU3rsnQ
Most viral edit: Thanks for the upvotes. Send pictures of people safely in their homes.
TrapMoneyBenny
afmgreentea
uglyshirts
No matter how many times this is explained to me, I still have no idea how these people don't fucking die.
InquisitorKen
Me in a pool:
impulsiveguy
How is the increasing probability of drowning relaxing?
Larirari
... what would compel someone to do this??
LookAtHowMuchFunImNotHaving
* A terrifying dip in the pool
TrombeOverride
Experience tranquillity.
neutrik
Nnnnnnope.
DBallz
He's a free diver? Dude ought to be getting paid.
TheSealPushedMe
IWishYouWouldDie
I’ve been a swimmer my whole life and man do these look cool i always loved sitting at the bottom of the pool.
mastertmo
I used to like sitting on the bottom of the pool. I float now unfortunately.
TotallyNotSociallyAwkward
Which Moby music video is this?
FatPikachuIsBestPikachu
I'm at work can't watch video, disabled how? And @OP I can't swim so you're better off than I am.
ThatNonye
Psoriatic arthritis
superultramegazord
Serious?
AngurProne
Oh well then I'm disabled too and I work 310 hours a month. No sympathy
bfreeze01
You dense motherfucker.
AtsaMattaForYou
sda7
OlivierVanKerckhove
https://www.stigpryds.com/the-man-beneath-the-surface/
HypocriticalBastard
oh fuck that
prattleassassin
Anyone can be a successful freediver once. The really good ones can go multiple times.
BoomerKeith
Wait, are those pictures on the wall?
DelightfullyOdd
Stig really got desperate for work after Top Gear...
HammerParty13
At least we know what he looks like now
ThatNonye
GFunk612
Are there fucking pictures hanging on the wall of a pool... I no longer care about the diver.
rugmiem
SpiritoftheSands
I used to love having pictures on me bacl when i was a wall of a pool
Fedotia
Windows so scientists keep an eye on the very pricey space material tested in the pool.
aSheepAmongWolves
There are both windows and pics in that pool
roadhunter
And even a picture window.
GFunk612
gunshowboy
They are windows to his soul
roadhunter
Memorials to all the people who have died trying to reach the bottom.
oneoliner
The hall of fallen heroes.
GFunk612
Sunken heroes*
onespark
I believe they are windows
MrBananaPants
Same thing?
onespark
No, not really...
FreakLikeFerguson
No look at the first clip at around 18 seconds on the left side. Those are different from the windows that are also on the walls.
GFunk612
Lemonself
I wonder if the legs crossed formation is better for dropping like a rock.
ThatNonye
I was wondering the same thing. He seemed to sink slower than you would if you penciled at the beginning but I no nothing about freediving
iamlamp2
He's tied to ropes
IceWeaselX
(1/2) It'd slow him down by increasing drag versus a vertical stance. It may just be a smoother descent, which could help with breath
IceWeaselX
(2/2) control. He also suffers from joint pain, so it may be therapeutic for him.
AmItrolling
Such a surreal expierience! I'm pretty jealous. I used to do this in my swimming pool. Not the same. Most peaceful feeling I ever had tho.
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AmItrolling
I'd like to have that dream.
stinkbeaner
How is he negatively bouyant while holding his breath?
PoorBoyChevelle
Many people are negatively bouyant while holding their breath. I am one of these people. Swim test sucks.
thundercactus
I believe the scientific term is "floats like a stone"
IceWeaselX
He exhales at the surface. He's apnea trained, so he can survive a longer duration without fresh oxygen intake than an untrained person.
stinkbeaner
Dope
GreenLantern15
How the hell does someone train themselves for that?
thundercactus
Breathe out, don't breathe in for as long as you can. I do high altitude training by limiting air intake while i run.
IStillHateMichaelCera
I got sympathy pain in my ears watching him sink. I cant even swim to the bottom of a 3m pool
ArtMadeofYourComment
I can usually go pretty damn deep (giggity) but right now I have a really bad ear infection. I feel ya about the sympathy ear pain.
DrMichaelMcQueeferton
Just plug your nose and blow your ears bro it’s easy and makes you able to go way deeper.
KyleBeach
Granted the most effective techniques is to purposefully flood your sinus cavity. Done correctly and some freedivers have gone nearly deep
KyleBeach
Enough that they start feeling the pressure on their entire body, not just on pockets of air within it
IronMagnus
...giggity.
FerociousLeaf
On we nv
Ajjaws57
You just aren't equalizing your ear pressure. I had the same issue until I took scuba diving classes
Euffy
THAT'S WHAT THAT IS ?! Reading these comments, I do something similar a lot. Never thought to do it underwater though. Mind blown.
Houkouha
Is it that strange noise you do in your ears? Am I doing the same? Couldn't describe it to others around me what I do or how do I do it
Automatvapen
Moving your yaw slightly forward and lightly blow through your nose so you get that crackling noise in your ear? I do it all the time...
Houkouha
I don't even have to do so, just move something in my ears directly..
sanewithcertainexceptions
Now the question became, how do you equalise it?
RainbowViper
It’s weird to explain but you need to kinda use the same muscles you do when you yawn, the ones in the back of your throat, without yawning
ItsRainingOutsideAndiDontWantToAdult
I can do this! Have been since I was a child.
Ajjaws57
Hold your nose closed and try to push the air from a breath through your closed nose. Should hear a noise.
Ajjaws57
Do this a few times as u descend, don't push 2 hardAfter diving a few times you can do it with out holding your nose by adjusting your jaw.
BlueWaffleLover
Somehow equalising hurts my ears more than not doing it, that's why I never dive deeper than 3m
rivitingone
How does he sink with his lungs full of air? I didn't see any weights.
IceWeaselX
They're not full of air. Exhale and you drop. Buoyancy control via breath is risky, but it's a technique divers of all types practice.
rivitingone
At the very end he releases a pretty good air bubble. That's what has me wondering. At those depths even a little air would seem to be lots
IceWeaselX
(1/2) Yeah, even when your lungs feel empty, there's still some left in there. SCUBA training has you exhale at ascent even when you're out
IceWeaselX
(2/2) of breath. It's amazing how much you still manage to squeeze out.
rivitingone
Do you happen to know what the black thing he puts around his wrist is right before he ascends from the bottom?