{"id":29162,"date":"2012-12-10T08:39:09","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T13:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=29162"},"modified":"2012-12-10T08:39:09","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T13:39:09","slug":"new-zealand-freediver-goes-for-deepest-dive-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/12\/new-zealand-freediver-goes-for-deepest-dive-record","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Freediver Goes For Deepest Dive Record"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A world champion New Zealand freediver who narrowly missed the world record for the deepest dive says he wants to make another attempt next year.<\/p>\n

William Trubridge, of Hawke’s Bay, blacked out during an attempt at a world record-matching 126-metre dive in the Bahamas last week.<\/p>\n

His attempt immediately followed Russian Alexey Molchanov, who had just set the record for the constant weight dive.<\/p>\n

“There was a lot of celebration going on [for Molchanov] while I was trying to prepare,” Trubridge said.<\/p>\n

“I had to just block that out of my mind as much as possible.”<\/p>\n

He said the first breath of air after a dive takes a few seconds to be absorbed into the blood stream and pumped to the brain.<\/p>\n

“In that interval your blood [pressure] is still dropping. I was just a little bit too far over the edge,” Trubridge said.<\/p>\n

Blacking out disqualified his attempt.<\/p>\n

Despite narrowly missing the record, he was crowned champion of the 2012 Suunto Vertical Blue competition, where he broke the national record with a 121m dive in the constant weight category in Dean’s Blue Hole on Long Island.<\/p>\n

There were 56 athletes from 21 countries participating in what is the largest freediving event of its kind, and Trubridge’s dive to 121m was on the penultimate day.<\/p>\n

Each freediver accrued points for all their dives during the 10-day competition at what is the deepest known seawater blue hole.<\/p>\n

Afterwards Trubridge, who organised the event, said: “I’m a bit disappointed with my own performances but given the enormity of Suunto Vertical Blue I can’t be too disgruntled. The results speak for themselves.<\/p>\n

“We had the most performances of any depth competition ever, and I’ve had more athletes tell me that this was the best comp they’ve ever attended.”<\/p>\n

Trubridge said he would train to attempt the world record again at a competition in May.<\/p>\n

He was the first man to break the 100m depth barrier completely unassisted – without the use of fins, rope or weights – in 2010.<\/p>\n

He also holds the record for “free immersion”, where divers descend and ascend by pulling on a rope.<\/p>\n

In 2011 and 2012 Trubridge received the World’s Absolute Freediving Award, which ranked him as the world’s top freediver.<\/p>\n

By Kieran Campbell<\/span><\/em>
\nOtago Daily Times Online News<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

William Trubridge, a world champion New Zealand freediver who blacked out during an attempt at a world record-matching dive in the Bahamas last week, promises to make another attempt next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}