{"id":5135,"date":"2010-12-14T08:54:18","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T13:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=5135"},"modified":"2010-12-14T09:00:28","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T14:00:28","slug":"new-zealand-freediver-first-to-dive-100m-on-single-breath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/12\/new-zealand-freediver-first-to-dive-100m-on-single-breath","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Freediver First To Dive 100m on Single Breath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5142\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"william-trubridge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/william-trubridge-166x250.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Paolo Valenti\" width=\"166\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/william-trubridge-166x250.jpg 166w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/william-trubridge-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/william-trubridge.jpg 440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 166px) 100vw, 166px\" \/>William Trubridge, a New Zealand-based freediver, has become the first person to dive to 100m using only his hands and feet for propulsion.<\/p>\n<p>Trubridge reached the historic depth while diving Dean&#8217;s Blue Hole on Long Island in the Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p>It took three attempts before success was achieved, with the first effort disqualified on a technicality and the second abandoned after undesirable air movement.<\/p>\n<p>The dive attempt, called Project Hector, was dedicated to the Hector&#8217;s Dolphin, a species that is threatened with extinction.<\/p>\n<p>The 100m mark was first reached in 1980 by Jacques Mayol, though he used a weighted sled to descend and an inflated lift bag to return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand freediver William Trubridge has become the first person to dive 100 metres below the sea, on a single breath of air and without fins or weights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"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":[7],"tags":[53,59],"class_list":["post-5135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-diving","tag-islands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5135","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}