Herbert Nitsch: No-limit apnea world record at -214 m

The Austrian freediver, Herbert Nitsch, defies the depths of the ocean and goes from one amazing feat to another. He has held the world record for freediving since 2007: - 214 meters! The British director Alexander Abela, who is also a freediver, shadowed him for many months while he trained, and also during international competitions in Greece and the Bahamas. In order to reach these extreme depths, Herbert draws on the breathing techniques of marine mammals and forces himself to do hours of training every day. At one with the sub-aquatic world, he is looking to go beyond Man’s limits rather than just break records. His dream is to go deeper than 300 meters!

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#documentary #diving #science #travel #limit #nature #apnea #greece #bahamas
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Meeting Herbert Nitsch is not only an amazing adventure, it's also a scientific one. This holder of 33 world records is constantly pushing back the limits of the human body.
Another freediving discipline is no less dangerous: no-limit apnea. This discipline, made popular by Luc Besson's classic "The Big Blue", allows you to descend to the deepest parts of the seabed. It consists of freediving without fins, using a cable and your arms to reach the greatest depth. During this dive, the freedivers are pulled by a rope, and when they reach their limits, they return to the surface using an air-filled balloon as a parachute. Herbert Nitsch will once again attempt to surpass his own limits and those of the human body, reaching -214 meters. A superhuman feat that no one else is capable of achieving in these vertiginous abysses.

Original title - The Deepest Man on Earth
© 2017, Licensed by CPB Films

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[odoacredacalcutta]

to be fair, the story unfortunately doesn't end here. He tried another record later and technically got it but he suffered from several micro brain strokes while ascending, due to DCS. He got permanent damage and has now several cognitive problems as well as difficulties in articulating verbal language. His diving career is over, of course. His accident deterred more people from attempting new records in the 'no limits' discipline of free diving, which has fallen way out fasthion since, while on constant weight new records keep getting broken.

[salihzeybek]

as a tech diver, sometimes i really dont understand freedivers. They are like: oh lets find another way to die, but try not dying in that situation xd

[brianlee]

Scuba diver here...

This is the first time ive heard of decompression being a concern for apnea divers... assuming the narrator was describing DCS where nitrogen gets pushed into blood at depth, i guess my prior understanding may have been all wrong.

[oxymoron]

Not to be rude, but if you need a better machine to get you deeper I feel like at that point you might as well just use a regular submarine.

[Purdue_Pharma]

The unsung hero of that video is the winch.

[gingertom]

When he’s bored with dicing with pressure risks under the water he can see how close he can get to the sun without melting.

[PownerMusicOfficial]

He looks like a villain from SpongeBob with that setup

[MalikKayli]

THE WORST DAY OF FISHING IS BETTER THAN THE BEST DAY OF WORKING

[odometric]

This footage must have been from 2007. There's another documentary from 2013 showing how he got a 253m world record but got decompression sickness.

[disgruntledgrunt]

2:47 why would they risk a boys life by having him ascend on the divers head?

[coptotermes]

So, i'm confused. He takes air out of his lungs and puts it in a bottle. His lungs and the bottle are compressed at the same rate. He takes air from the bottle to help equalise his ears? This is air that was already in his lungs, not extra air. How on earth does this help? He may even loose some air during the transfers.

[krist]

There will eventually be a point of which we can't go any deeper. Unfortunately, many will die before that point is realized! Impressive nonetheless!!

[charleskavoukjian]

It looks like they turn the diver into a human fishing lure 😂

[dayscents]

I understand compression on the lungs as a person descends, due to increased weight of water surrounding the body, and then as the person starts to ascend back to the surface the lungs will actually start to have air (?gas) in them again due to decreased pressure on the body so the diver should exhale the air slowly out the mouth so the lungs do not explode. What puzzles me is how can the human body actually withstand this type of pressure to begin with? Also, If the human adult brain goes 4mins without oxygen, then according to medical professionals, we can acquire permanent brain damage. I was wondering if a free diver's blood is still pumping blood into the body while being under this intense pressure? I do know that Herbert sustained a brain injury on his record dive in 2007 and was wondering if it was due to lack of oxygen? Pressure on head? Or both?

[interestings]

So this record is really just the deepest a human body can go and still survive?

[danielikhal]

Why though? Isn't the point of apnea diving NOT to use any equipment?

Can someone elaborate pls?

[utkarsh-rh]

i dont can someone explain it to me please. i thought the whole idea of freediving was you dont have to make decompression stops as you dont breath compressed air underwater. so why did he make stop at 10 meters ?

[alexanderhowa]

If you want 4 digits then just use inches. You’re well past that.

[borisblocksberg]

He will be in the news once again soon

[addohm]

This isn’t even diving. This is equipment assisted apnea submersion. lol