When you look into the abyss...

...or jump into it, more accurately.

Remarkable film of Guillaume Nery, world champion free diver (yes, one of those Big Blue types). The great darkness into which he dives is Dean’s Blue Hole, the second deepest blue hole in the world. And he did it on a single breath.

Note that it is "fictional", in the sense that it's edited from footage taken over four afternoons of diving. It was filmed by Julie Gautier, who is herself a free-diving champion, and did all the filming 'on breath hold'. Yikes.



And coincidentally, I had a snippet from Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage idling around my mind, which I imagine suits free divers quite well:

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar...

:-)