William Trubridge 121m Free Immersion Record

In freediving news today… William Trubridge set another record for Free Immersion descending to an amazing 121 meters or nearly 400′ deep on a single breath of air.
The dive took place in Deans Blue Hole in the Bahamas which sits in a beautiful spot just meters from the beach in Long Island Bahamas.
The dive took 4 minutes and 13 seconds and will undoubtedly be one of the most talked about freedives in history.
To put it in perspective, that is nearly 5 lengths in an Olympic size swimming pool, underwater, on a single breath of air. One of the main issues with diving to those depths is equalizing. Considering some people have issues at 8 feet or 100ft for some freedivers, you can only imagine how difficult it would be at 300 or even 400ft.
From Williams website: http://www.verticalblue.net/news/

“I was fairly calm going into the dive, as I’d done a 120m dive in training in which I hit my head on the plate, and I knew if I managed to equalise it should be fine. The descent was good, but when my second alarm went off at 115 I was already running out of air, and managed one last equalisation, before I had to ride my ears. I heard a strange noise from the left ear, just above the plate, and worried that I had ruptured the eardrum, I quickly grabbed at a tag, but lost the line in the process. From having done countless deep no fins dives, my first instinct was a no-fins stroke, which brought me back in contact with the line, and from there I continued to pull up it. Sometimes problems at depth convert to problems on the surface, but in this one I managed to stay relaxed during the ascent and completed the surface protocol cleanly for a tough but welcome world record.”

Congrats to William on an incredible dive.
The only thing I wonder is what kind of fish I could shoot if I could freedive 400ft… Might be time to pick up my training regimen a bit.
Cameron Kirkconnell