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This is me on my way down to 78 feet while holding my breath, as this clip is filmed from the camera that's mounted on my head. I won't return to the surface for two and a half minutes and i won't cut this headcam clip so you can see exactly what the entire dive looks like. Because of the water pressure, at 30 feet my lungs are compressed to half their normal size, and at 60 feet my lungs are a third their normal size. This is important because after a certain point my lungs have shrunk so much that I no longer need to kick because I'm no longer buoyant. Instead, I just freefall and let gravity do all the work for me. And freefalling is extremely fun. I'm not opposed to posting videos about my mistakes, in fact, I almost prefer it, but not today I'm showing off!
This is what 98% of spearfishing looks like, sitting patiently underwater with no fish in sight. Roughly 30 seconds from now I'll see my target, a Mu. At this point in time, I'm just chilling waiting, and hoping. Mu is the hardest fish to catch in Indonesia, because as you're about to see they're incredibly cautious. I'm not in the best hiding spot but it's too late to move, and there's the fish! It's way too far but there's a 100% chance that it will eventually swim within range. The only question is, can I hold my breath long enough to see that happen?
I'm not moving a single muscle, I'm not even breathing, obviously, because I'm at the bottom of the ocean. But if I could breathe I still wouldn't, because that's how little I'm moving my body right now. Anyways, the fish is slowly inching closer which is to be expected although it's still not that close, I do have a clear shot, and my speargun does have pretty good range and I'm quickly running out of air! The most dangerous part of a freedive is the swim back up to the surface. Ιt's when you're most likely to blackout because as your lungs expand back to their normal size, your brain suddenly realizes that the percentage of oxygen inside of them is way lower now and your lungs are way bigger, which is why my dive buddy comes down to meet me just in case. Ι've never blacked out before but it can happen to anyone which is why you should never dive alone.