Freediving inside the Zenobia wreck - would you go in?
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2024
- Georgina Miller is a UK freediver and owner of www.aquacityfre...
On a trip to Cyprus with Infinity Freediving, we explored the famous Zenobia wreck, entering the bridge at 26 meters deep.
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Every time i do a dive into an overhang environment, like a cave or a wreck, there is a moment, just before entering, where i either commit to the dive or bail out. This little 'speed bump' is one of the many things i like about wreck diving, and it turns out Georgina has them too - we have quite a few outtakes where either of us bail on the dive. Entering a wreck at 26 meters is thrilling and more than a bit daunting, and the idea i had for this movie required us to do it over and over again. So besides outtakes of aborted attempts, there are also many takes of George coming back up with a huge grin on her face after successfully taking the speed bump.
Of course! I just cannot imagine how it must feel! Anyway thank you for sharing these amazing experiences with us. I am new in your channel but i subscribed instantly. This relaxes me so much. Keep going! ❤❤❤ Love from Colombia, south America
Thank you for subscribing Angelica - hope you enjoy my videos!
Can we see some of the outtakes? :)
@@Blessiiii Hahaha, maybe once we get a million views!
@@DaanVerhoeven you will
Magnificent :) and you chose the best model, as always
i'm a lucky man!
Any future videos with the 2 of you together planned for... Soon? 🤞
@@Satsuto23 Adam and me together? Or Georgina and Adam?
I don’t think moet people realize how much self control is needed to remain calm and relaxed during a dive like this. One mistake or impulsive move and it’s lights out. Incredible footage!!
thank you! Yes, that took some mental stability - especially when I saw the lion fish right where I was going to film
I saw this a few days back, I just returned to say that this was brilliant! Loved the editing! And also lol no as a scuba diver my breath hold is rubbish!
thank you! I struggled with the edit on this one, had to cut a few bars from the music to make it work, so I really appreciate you mentioning it!
Daan Verhoeven haha mate I know the feeling, every video I put out I have to cut the song and mess with it so it fits my edit haha - but I didn’t notice it at all so it worked perfectly!
Vote for this vid .... not disappointed! Great colors! Great video!
Thank you!
Being a single mother changed what I did in a big way: free climbing, cross country horse riding etc. So, no, I would not go into wrecks, but it is so intriguing, and your camera's resolution is phenomenal. I salute you freedivers for your courage, adventurous natures. I get to "freedive" with you. Thank you!
i completely get that - and i'm happy you're freediving with us!
Incredible video. It's a wonder 'Henjo' never ended up looking like that boat.... ;-)
thank you! Who's Henjo, though?
@@DaanVerhoeven the boat I used to live on, I believe George did too for a bit.. Good times.
@@alexpilkington1765 oh hey, i'll ask her about that!
Beautiful! Love the color coordination in this video. Now before going in, I need a wreck-colored mono-fin,
Thank you! I love the idea of a wreck coloured monofin!
This is so graceful. Was wondering how many years you have been training to be able to do this? Thank you!
All your videos are so beautiful! 😭
Thank you!
You still exhibit a lot more courage than I could muster. Your videos are inspirational, keep it up.
thank you - i do get nervous filming in those conditions!
A. M. A. Z. I. N. G.
New favorite channel.👍🌊❤️
Great video as always Daan and mermaid Georgina. Yes colors are spectacular.
thank you! The blue of Cyprus is just incredible.
Soooooo y’all are holding y’all breath thisssss long?!
I just learned that I can hold my breath for 4 minutes
Where is this located! Super cool video. Awesome job
The wreck is just off the coast in Larnaca, Cyprus
Wow! Absolutely insane but amazing at the same time.
thank you!
Water is soo beautiful and fearsome as well. I hope I could do the same thing some day.
Love your videos! Thank you for sharing them! That depth translates to around 85 feet and I have been to that depth before but not sure I would go in that deep. I would definitely go in at 30 feet down.
yes, the door is at around 85-90 feet deep, and then we kept falling a bit deeper. Takes a bit of training to get there!
@@DaanVerhoeven Thank you for responding to my comment! Yes it does take a bit of training to get there. I have been free diving for several years and love it! Have been inside sunken boats and caves before but not that deep.
I live in Minnesota and knew nothing about free diving. I discovered it on CZcams and am now obsessed and hope to learn how to do it one day.
Enjoying every moment, almost holding my breath.
Thank you Rory!
Extraordinary footage once again! To answer the question: no I wouldn't go inside. I can't dive that deep, so the question is rather silly for me, lol!
fair point! If it were shallower, would you enter a wreck?
@@DaanVerhoeven however challenging or cool or exciting it may look to go inside a wreck: no I wouldn't. Even if it were way within my personal limits which is far less than 10 m deep.
beautiful, thank you.
my pleasure - thank you for watching!
I explored an abandoned kmart one time. I think I'm going to fix myself a cheese sandwich...
hahaha, cue 'born to be wild'
@@DaanVerhoeven
Daan I'd prefer if you cued up some bon Jovi "it's my life" because, let's be honest, it's my life....its now or never!
Super!
Thank you!
I can hold my breath for just over four and a half minutes, but I would not do this. Too many unclassified aquatic creatures that could dissolve me in their gullets. Thank you for potentially sacrificing yourself to the great Kraken for these images. They are truly moving and show the spirit of adventure that makes us human.
my pleasure - the scariest thing down there was a lion fish!
Daan Verhoeven that you saw...... 🦑
It's not a real freedive! She's got a mini tube of oxygen in her hand and she used It to take a breath inside de ship!
@@felipevalim9973 hahaha, that would be a novel way of using a snorkel!
Felipe Valim I’m not so sure the lurking creature that was about to chomp on her really cared if she was carrying oxygen or not. 🦑
Watching now bro... superb
Thank you - it's such an awesome wreck!
@@DaanVerhoeven love wstching it again and again... hehehehe amazing
*Stunning.* ❤❤❤
Thank you!
Magnífico una imagen hermosa gracias
Gracias!
Cara,eu preciso muito aprender a fazer freediving 🇧🇷
you can do it! Find the right teacher and fly!
Cool video!... just one important question: 01:25, was that a fart? 🤣
the most important question! It could have been, but with a suit so tight, unlikely.
@@DaanVerhoeven good to know, thanks! :)
Yes, it surely was. @ 01:18 she makes the international standard hand sign for "Caution! Fart ahead!"
hahaha, well if she did, it is ok: we were holding our breaths anyway
I have been unable to fart at depth, except with a scuba tank... as all gases compress to a smaller size.
I believe it is impossible. (nose pinch and ear clearing, more likely)
-And, pretty girls will tell you... "Me, fart?... not possible."
Wonderful !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you!
Just wondering once you have done a dive what is the preparation time until the next one?
usually at least 5 minutes, for the deeper dives
@@DaanVerhoeven Ah right. Not that long then. I kind of assumed it would take quite sometime to get ready for another one with calming and breathing techniques to get rid of lactic and what not.
Awesome as usual...
thank you!
Un sitio espectacular para practicar...
the best!
Love your videos.
thank you!
Amazing... Wonderful
Thank you!
Daan Verhoeven: so lets dive down to the wreck
Man: yes ita gonna be awesome
Daan Verhoeven: lets jump in the water
Man: remeber your scuba stuff
Daan Verhoeven i can my lungs is alredy a scuba tank so no
Great video
Thank you!
Bonito lugar ótimo mergilho
thank you!
Nice video thanks
my pleasure!
Definitly, next week;-)
crazy, but so cool!
Wow - nice video.
Thank you!
this is awesome!!!!
thank you!
Wow!
Прекрасно!👍👍👍
Amazing
thank you!
Sweet Juice!
hahaha!!
How are these videos usually recorded
i film it all on breath hold, so i'm more free to move about
Titanic ?
hahaha!
Yes! 🕵 I want To go 💙🐚🐋🐟🐳 #LikeAMermaid
do it!
Even im sceard from the deep sea i'll do it #Fight #TheFrear #Of #Your #Soul #To #Be #Free 🕊💎
Fight the fear of you using too many hash tags....
@@Bramon83 Hahaha ! 😝 & fight the fear by using a good and a nice words in comments when you give your point 😉
I'm just ribbing you. Don't take it too serious. 😆😒
#I #almost #wanted #to #troll #you #, #so #looks #like #I #am.
Jesus that's a PITA to type.
What's the long (rubber looking) black thing she's holding in her right hand @ 0:52?
that's a snorkel
@@DaanVerhoeven I'm so sorry if that sounded like a stupid question but really, all I know about this sport is how scary and mesmerising it is. Thank you for your reply
@@crazybeautifulx5227 not a stupid question at all! They're fairly useless once you're underwater, but very handy on the surface.
What up with that whale-tail? I get the added surface area might generate more thrust, but it seems to me that the source of power (the legs) would be significantly reduced with the unnatural conjoining of the feet. Aquatic mammals have had a few million years to get their muscles positioned in such a way to be effective with this up and down motion. That's not how we generate power at all though. Sit in a chair and put your feet together and kick something soft (like a couch or a mattress). You didn't kick it very hard, did you? Now try it with your feet apart, placing one of them on the floor - and kick that couch one more time. That's a lot better, right?
We're bipedal animals, not uni-pedal. So I would think that kicking the legs independently back and forth would be a better way to go. So that whale tail seems like a gimmick to me.
Of course, I could totally be wrong.
Cool video though - that was some cool filming you did there, nicely done..
your reasoning makes sense - if you look at it as a movement from the legs. Swimming with a monofin uses the core muscles much more, and that makes it a more efficient way of propelling yourself through the water. Compare the deepest dive in bi-fins (108 meters) to the deepest with a monofin (130 meters) by the same guy, Alexey Molchanov.
@@DaanVerhoeven hi, thanks for taking the time to reply. So they're called 'monofins' huh? Makes sense.
So, Alexey got about 20% deeper on a dive with the monofins compared to the other with bi-fins - ok. Can we say for certain it was the monofins that contributed to this outcome more than anything else that day? I don't even dive and I can imagine quite a few different variables that could come into play. Even with the same person doing the same activity, there are many contributing factors besides the gear used. And now that I'm thinking about it, I don't recall seeing _any_ deep free dives where the diver was exerting themselves all that much on the way down. They seem to let gravity do most of the work in that direction, right?
I'm sorry to raise questions like this, forgive me. I acknowledge my ignorance in the matter, and I'm not saying you're wrong. Believe me, I'm not a contrarian. I'll readily admit to being quite skeptical at times, but not unreasonably so I don't think. I'm just saying that I'd need a more sufficient explanation to be convinced. However, it isn't your job to convince or educate me so I wouldn't burden you with that. I'm perfectly able to go looking for info myself - which I'll do regardless - but if you had anything to share which might further my understanding, I would of course greatly appreciate it. I have no grudge or motivation to argue the point, so I'll just leave it at that.
Thanks again. I did enjoy this video - you did well filming it. The shot from inside the wreck with the diver passing by, I thought was particularly well-conceived. I'd say that shot was truly inspired, creatively. It was a genuinely artistic moment imo - well done..
@@SineEyed Good questions! Its not only Alexy - almost everyone gets better performances with a monofin. Once you have the technique it is just more efficient. However the technique is not intuitive and involves a lot of core strength and using the whole body. The reasons it is more efficient incude that less turbulence is created as the body is moving as one, the body can be kept more streamlined, and the width of the fin means it is using water unaffected by the body's turbulence. Many freedivers would use bi-fins for a wreck as they make turning easier.
@@danarkle5053 hi Dan - thanks for chiming in, I'm grateful for your time.
I'm a rather science-minded kind of person (which I say with humility) so when I got to what you said about turbulence, the light really clicked on for me lol. Now _that_ I can accept as a plausible explanation. I think I can reasonably assume it to be true, that it contributes in a significant way to a diver's overall efficiency.
I did end up doing some superficial digging yesterday after replying to "double-a" Daan (😉) and from what I gather, the monofin design is not exactly a ubiquitous tool which can be utilized by divers in a variety of scenarios. Rather, it seems intended to be made use of in quite specific situations e.g. diving down or coming back up.
Turbulence might only be a factor to consider when it is the intention of the diver to initiate a dive which pushes beyond the constraints of what a more novice diver might limit himself to. I would presume this to be the case anyway.
If a diver is concerned with efficiency, then we can infer an expectation of increased speed, depth, duration, and of course danger. This is the reasoning behind why I'm assuming the monofin to be a very specific piece of equipment. Turbulence will only become a factor where speed is of concern. Speed will only be a factor where time is of concern. Time will only be a factor where safety is of concern. So being as efficient as possible is a logical goal.
Without much fuss, I would tend to agree that the monofin lends itself to increased efficiency regarding a specific and limited set of diving scenarios. However, _to what degree_ efficiency might be elevated is still a point of contention I think.
When you wrote that the use of a monofin is at first unintuitive, my first thought was, "well of course it is - it's a completely unnatural means of locomotion for us". Very much so, I think. And of course it requires a lot of core muscle use - restricting the legs to simultaneous movements leaves no other choice _but_ the core. Those muscle groups weren't "designed" for locomotion though. They are meant for stabilization and support of the muscle groups that _do_ serve to move us about. Consider the cetaceans for a moment - they're pretty much a solid-core design. They're all core and no bore lol.
The muscle groups in those animals have been completely overhauled and rearranged to meet the specific needs of locomotion through water. And it is only remotely coincidental that we bend front and back like they do. But just because they are efficient swimmers doesn't mean we too will be by emulating their motion.
My argument is that given the unnatural motion induced by employing the monofin gives reason to question the actual efficiency gained on a dive. Moving in a way we were not designed to move does not lend itself to the idea of efficiency, to me. Being made aware of the role turbulence will play on such dives does well to soften my skepticism, but any role played by hydrodynamic forces is unreasonably complex and beyond the means of most laymen (myself included) to precisely and correctly identify.
I think the only way for me to be truly convinced, I'd have to find hard data which indicated an increase in efficiency at a level anywhere above marginal. I'd need to see real-world testing, under controlled conditions and variables all accounted for.
Sometimes I can be incredibly difficult to win over, I know - and I'm sorry.. 😅
@@SineEyed Will save you some trouble... (They have been racing those fins for over thirty years in Europe. Maybe 40 years, using them.)
CZcams search: 50m monofin record
and... Michael Phelps monofin.
Woow amazing
How about free dive racing.. 2 divers race down to collect a tag for first or second place and then do the same at the surface. Tag collection - 1-2 : 2-1 = draw , 2-2 = loss, 1-1 = win. Fighting is allowed.
I like it. it's a recipe for disaster, but it would be very dramatic disaster.
@@DaanVerhoeven Go and trial it then and might be a new sport.. Can have a high board class as well where u have to start from a 5 meter high platform.
Look up underwater rugby
Sounds like the loser dies...
that was something!
hahaha, yes it was!
Aqua man has no privacy now 🧜🏻♂️
hahaha, exactly! We can drop in any time!
Daan Verhoeven 👍🏽🤣
😍😍😍
Everybody says its harder with monofin 😍 but l can not get my eyes of them ❤
Killer video
Thank you!
what are these bubbles at 0:49
it's a popular wreck for scuba divers; a bunch of them had just been in there and left quite a few of their bubbles
Sympa !
merci!
장말 멋지다. 나도 언젠가는......!!!!
Thank you - be safe!
gweldig ik ga binnenkort ook beginnen met freediving.
heel veel plezier! Waar doe je je cursus, en bij wie?
@@DaanVerhoeven bij duikcentrum Scubido in schoorl van padi. Bij nanja vd broek gaat helaas niet lukken vanwege mn drukke baan. maar duik ook bij scubido dus daar ga ik ook freediven
@@MrPeteroud veel plezier!
What masks do you prefer?
i like the aqualung micromask and the mares x free, Georgina dives with a Aquasphere sphera
Dưới biển đẹp cảnh quay chất ❤
Thank you!
Not a real freedive! She's got a mini tube of oxygen in her hand and she used It to take a breath inside de ship!
hahaha, that would be a novel way of using a snorkel!
@@DaanVerhoeven imagine a very small hand held oxygen tank for like 3 breaths or so, that would be pretty cool!
Класс👏👏👏👍👍👍👍👍👍👍!!!
i drowned 40 times while i watched that
many condolences!
Ini sangat biutipullll
it was a tricky shoot!
@@DaanVerhoeven aku tidak mengerti bahasa inggris 😥
itu adalah tembakan yang sulit! (penerjemah Google)
@@DaanVerhoeven oh iya terimakasih....(thank you) 😀
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Hello
hi!
Russia ❤️ you
that's a lot of ❤️!
@@DaanVerhoeven Moscow ❤️you 😁👌
le monde du silence :)
oui!
El mundo de silencio or the silent world oui?
Daan verhoeven what you guys do is simply amazing I dont think I can hold breath more than 60 ,seconds but watching you guys .....all I have to do is stay still close my eyes for a sec ...but it only takes a fraction of that second,and I can feel like I am right next to you ,so to speak
Well thats me anyways props to you guys love all your work :-) with lots of love from mexico :-)
@@adanoleyva9363 thank you, that's such a lovely compliment!
While asked about the "silence and the loneliness" of diving, Jacques Cousteau answered: forget it, it's very loud down there and you always have to dive with somebody.
What a babe! 😉
indeed
Taca đã đưa tao đến đây chúng mày ạ😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
long live Taca!