No-Limits Apnea World Record at -214m | Herbert Nitsch

Constant weight is generally considered safe if done within a championship setup. No limit, on the other hand, is categorized as a non-competition discipline because of the risks involved when descending on a weighted sled. Well, it took me some quite some time to start no limit diving. I did all the other disciplines or most the other disciplines before that and the people were asking me, so why don't you do no limits? And in the beginning it was more that I didn't find it safe enough. Loic Lefebvre became the deepest man on earth in 2004, setting a no limit record at 171 meters. The following year, on his first no limit attempt, Herbert added one meter to Loic's record, then in 2006 reached 183 meters. You're sitting on a machine and you're only focusing on yourself and nothing else. And so it's a deeper state of internal experience maybe. Determined to recapture the record, Loic started training again in 2007. Famously obsessed with safety, this great athlete nevertheless fell victim to a mechanical malfunction during a descent to 160 meters. Loic Lefebvre's tragic death deeply affected the freediving world. Yet two months later, Herbert announced an attempt to reach 214 meters, 31 meters deeper than his previous record. A huge jump. For this attempt, Herbert devised a number of innovations which established a new diving protocol. To reach 214 meters, Herbert designed a device twice as fast as conventional sleds. And then there's the bottle. The idea is simple. At 25 meters, Herbert plans to transfer the air from his lungs into a bottle. This reserve of air will be used at greater depth to equalize the pressure in his inner ears and sinuses. It will then take a little less than two minutes to reach 214 meters. Once there, Herbert will release the weight of the sled and start his ascent with the help of a buoy positioned above his head. As a measure of precaution, a safety device will closely follow Herbert's ascent to the surface. Decompression is a real risk when returning from such depths. Once again, Herbert innovated by breaking his dive into two stages. He first slows his ascent at around 60 meters and then makes a one-minute stop at nine meters to give his body enough time to return to normal. everything good everything good 140. 145 so nobody touch him breathe don't touch it five seconds i'm still holding the no limits record which is 214 meters but i'm trying to improve that record try to make another step towards my goal reaching 1 000 feet the sled we used for the 214 meter dive was totally different from anything that has been built before it was just very difficult to handle and now we want to change again the main reason is to be even safer but but also to get a much faster speed because we have to limit the time especially below 100 meters as much as possible it's not because of the breath hold time it's mainly because of the gases building up in the blood but then it will be also a very challenging task to build a system that can go that fast the fascinating aspect in freediving is breaking barriers which you have never thought you will ever be able to break and then at some point it seems like i'm reaching a limit but then there's a door it opens and the limit is gone i can go much longer much deeper and this is just fascinating to see where it will take me no limits while the name says it all 1000 feet that's the magic number four digits just a number sounds impressive to me after breaking the 240 meter record i know it's humanly possible if i reach the 1000 feet i will not be surprised if anybody breaks it but i would be surprised if anybody breaks it before me