Guillaume Nery Base Jumping UNDERWATER At Dean's Blue Hole (VIDEO)

This stunning video of world champion freediver Guillaume Nery base jumping underwater into Dean's Blue Hole will take your breath away.

Dean's Blue Hole is the world's largest underwater sinkhole, plunging 663 feet to the ocean floor in a bay west of the Bahamas. (UPDATE Nery emailed us to say he never reached the bottom; the distance is so far as to make it impossible. Nery says, "This movie is an artistic project, a fiction." He shot it with his girlfriend over the course of four afternoons.)

Gautier on shooting the video:

Guillaume Nery and myself decided to use our time during a freediving competition at Dean's Blue Hole (deepest blue hole in the world) to make a short movie. Since a long time Guillaume wanted to make the link between freeding and base jumping. Our goal was to emphasise on esthetic images and innovative camera moves.

The video is filmed "on breath." We feel both inspired and lame.

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Comments

[donbribon]

01:12 AM on 06/16/2010

For those curious to see the actual location of Dean's Blue Hole, you can visit the place virtually on BlooSee at http://bit.ly/buXZbW Amazing!

[Absolon]

12:17 PM on 06/11/2010

Julie Gautier deserves some awards for filming this, even if she HAD filmed it with the benefit of scuba or a rebreather. To catch all this for us, she had to match Nery's speed of descent while toting a camera. Two shots, in particular, stand out for me: 1) As he's free falling, she films him from the right side, then moves BELOW him, and across his path to the left, all the while panning his face/body, and 2) the incredible scene where she films him disappearing into the sandy nebula of falling silt, (which basically means he BEATS TO THE BOTTOM the cloud of dust he himself stirred up moments before, while standing on the edge of the abyss, looking way beyond cool.)
All you divers out there will recognize how far down they were by noticing how the French flag emblem on Nery's left shoulder, and the skirt on his mask, gets brighter and more colorful as he climbs back up and out of the hole.That's exciting stuff!!!
The music was perfect for this, the editing was excellent, and the camera work and diving speak for themselves. Kudos all around.
Surely Nery's and Gautier's mothers are far, far beyond proud.

[madball540]

02:19 PM on 06/11/2010

Did you even read the article? This was filmed over the course of 4 days. It was not done in one shot. It is a concocted movie (well done I might add). HE didn't go to the bottom of the hole, probably because the pressure at the bottome would have burst every organ in hi body. REad before you make erroneous comments. Tahnks for watching!

[Absolon]

07:17 PM on 06/12/2010

Your comments have nothing to do with the truth of what I espoused.

[SpiralDenial]

02:37 AM on 06/24/2010

The depth of that dive doesn't even begin to approach current world records. Bursting every organ in his body? Why would that happen? You might want to study a little more physics and do a bit of homework on freediving.

REad before you make erroneous comments.

[Dionita]

11:17 AM on 06/11/2010

Simply stunning.

[Jesse P. Steinberg]

08:34 PM on 06/10/2010

Just watching this, made my lungs burn.

[Balzac]

05:47 PM on 06/10/2010

I can almost feel the water temperature dropping and the pressure rising. Then I take a big breath when the guy finally surfaces. I'd like to some diving.

[Absolon]

11:46 AM on 06/11/2010

Yeah! You know it was much cooler down on the ledge than at the surface......shiver!

[johnpseudo]

10:24 PM on 06/13/2010

It probably isn't actually a lot cooler near the bottom than near the top. As you can see here (http://www.windows2universe.org/earth/Water/temp.html), the average ocean temperature doesn't really vary a lot from the surface temperature until you reach about 250 meters, which is far below where he was diving. And in April, in the Bahamas, that's usually about 77 degree Fahrenheit.

In lakes, the thermoclines can be much more severe and at much shallower depths.

[DareBear Stare]

02:25 AM on 06/10/2010

I thought the song was pretty sweet for this!

[Absolon]

11:49 AM on 06/11/2010

It was awesomely perfect. The "oneness" that a free diver feels with the sea is, indeed, a love "like no other." It's incredible. The sweet highs of the vocals were perfectly matched by the rough ended, scratchy bass and guitars.

Archive; "You Make Me Feel" from the London Lounge CD.

[ShanniC]

01:49 AM on 06/10/2010

So cool! I wouldn't have made it to the edge.

[ComputerBlue]

05:47 PM on 06/09/2010

Courageous!

[Sigismund]

05:21 PM on 06/09/2010

Nicely done. I assume his wife was wearing a closed circuit rebreather so as not to have a storm of bubbles disturbing the serenity of the picture. Probably shot at no more than 160 ft, so she didn't have to go to mixed gasses for her diluent. Free divers are remarkable atheletes. However, sink holes are ususally fetid deserts full of dead and rotting biology.

[MissAmericanPieInTheSky]

06:36 PM on 06/09/2010

His girlfriend is a champion free diver herself.

[Sparty1]

03:26 PM on 06/09/2010

That is just amazing.

[JoeyPolanski]

02:28 PM on 06/09/2010

Big deal. He didn't make it to China, did he?

[Absolon]

11:51 AM on 06/11/2010

Oh, go read Portnoy for the 50th time, already.

[RippleRunner]

02:01 PM on 06/09/2010

Great video but its not real. If you dont believe me, check out the little test I did as proof:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMZOgaUeNjI

Love it nevertheless.

[Bama Honey]

02:22 PM on 06/09/2010

Really????????? You've gotta be kidding me. Lolololololololol! That vid was too funny! I should've known it wasn't a real test bwahaha!

The jump was scary and terrifying to me since I am scared of water and especially big bodies of water, and darkness, and suffocation, and swimming, and sharks, and rocks, and fish, and....ok i'll stop lol!

[LeftCoastLucky]

01:39 PM on 06/09/2010

No way. Impossible.

[2sunny]

10:36 AM on 06/09/2010

--dizzingly -- fantastical-- (don't correct me Latin police - I made these words up)
I will go ahead and have a panic attach now.......................

[Tom Joad]

09:53 AM on 06/09/2010

...cool video...scary place...