OT: Walking on the moon...or bottom of the ocean?

[William]

...as it were.

A cool short video of free diver Guillaume Nery being pulled along the bottom of the ocean by very strong currents in French Polynesia. It almost looks like he's floating across the barren landscape of another planet....and in a sense he is.

https://vimeo.com/113893889

It also made me think of that Police song...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbv-LcdLY-Y









William

[45K10]

That is cool, the guy has awesome buoyancy skills


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[thunderworks]

I assume someone is nearby (in addition to the photographer) who provides air and that there is careful editing . . .?

[William]

Some free divers can hold their breath up to five minutes under water.


The making of Ocean Gravity
http://www.lesfilmsengloutis.com/en/films/ocean-gravity-uk/

There is a video there of how they filmed it. No tanks.







William

[josephr]

pretty cool....about the only good thing to come out of France though.

[ceolwulf]

pretty cool....about the only good thing to come out of France though.


Look, it's about Time we had a chat ...

[Seramount]

that's a fairly wicked current...

wouldn't want to try and swim against it.

[Louis]

pretty cool....about the only good thing to come out of France though.

I don't know if this is serious or not, but if it is, it's the sort of thing that makes me embarrassed to be an American.

[54ny77]

that was cool!

how on earth is he breathing?

[josephr]

I don't know if this is serious or not, but if it is, it's the sort of thing that makes me embarrassed to be an American.

Its the internet --- invented by Americans for Americans....booyah!

yes, tounge-in-cheek...Frenchies even invented the bicycle --- but, the Italians perfected BB standards!

here's some great things started by the French---

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_French_inventions_and_discoveries

[Louis]

Its the internet --- invented by Americans

You must mean the British, right?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee

[cmbicycles]

You must mean the British, right?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee

I thought Al Gore invented the internet :rolleyes:

[William]

that's a fairly wicked current...

wouldn't want to try and swim against it.

My guess is that if your life depended on swimming against that current to get to shore....you ainna gonna make it.









William

[Louis]

My guess is that if your life depended on swimming against that current to get to shore....you ainna gonna make it.

In most cases if you're fighting a "rip-tide" those are very localized. There's no sense in killing yourself fighting it back to shore. If you move sideways a bit it will likely decrease in strength, at which time you can probably get back in.

Unless it's a water temp issue, folks can tread water for a very long time.

[Tony]

Glitch Mob, cool sound track!

[Seramount]

My guess is that if your life depended on swimming against that current to get to shore....you ainna gonna make it.

have dived in open water where currents were running so hard it was difficult to hold position on the bottom, swimming into the current was physically impossible...and if there is nothing to anchor yourself to, you can cover some serious distance in short order.

surfacing to find the boat being a speck on the horizon, and getting smaller by the second, can be a sobering experience. even with a 6' tall safety marker, loud-ass whistle, and signal mirror, it can be hard to be seen in large expanses of water. especially if the waves have any height at all.