(ocean waves crashing)
- [Man] Thirty metres!
- [Elayna] The next few days we spent as spectators.
Basically, there are male and female competitors
from all around the world after the deepest dive.
It is split up into three disciplines,
constant weight with fins, constant weight no fins,
and free immersion.
- [Computer] 25...
26...
27...
28...
29...
30.
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- [Elayna] There is a surface protocol
that all divers must complete, which makes the event safer.
Even though some divers may have just gone down
to a hundred metres, once returning to the surface
the diver has to respect the surface protocol
within 15 seconds or else they risk getting
a yellow or red card.
Meaning they've either been penalised or are disqualified.
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So first, they have to remove all facial equipment,
give one visible okay sign to the judges,
and give one verbal okay sign to the judges.
(crowd cheering and applauding)
Also, the divers face and nose must remain
out of the water, and there is to be no touching
of the supportive kind upon their return to breathing air
until the judges have declared the dive as complete.
(water splashing)
(crowd cheering and applauding)
(judges calling indistinctly)
(everyone cheering and applauding)
- [Elayna] So we saw a minor blackouts like this one.
- [Woman] Good, good, good, good, good, don't slip.
No! (groans)
- [Man] Wait, wait, wait!
(everyone exclaiming)
- [Elayna] And another serious one
which we didn't get on film.
To see the rawness of a human's fight for survival
is something so interesting and somehow refreshing
in a way that reminds me of how incredible
the human body actually is.
Alright, so you just dove to how deep?
- 99 metres.
- [Elayna] Amazing!
- Yeah, so that's in the free immersion discipline,
which is where you're like just pull yourself
down the line.
You can't wear any fins.
And that was a new Australian record.
So I'm pretty chuffed!
- [Elayna] Yes! (both laughing)
I can't believe you just did that,
and you're just so normal afterwards like...
- Well, you just get up and keep goin'.
- [Elayna] Yeah!
- Like that's the thing about breath holds.
It's that like your body can just do them.
It's not like it kills you to get it done.
- [Elayna] Yeah.
Congratulations!
- Thanks, oh (laughs)
- [Man In White Shirt] Well deserved, brother.
- What did I just complete?
111 metres swimming down with a monofin.
And it's a British record.
- [Riley] Well done, dude.
- The first thing is I tried this on the first day,
and obviously, I got disqualified.
And just tried it again, and I turned early
so it's like tried the same depth three times so--
- [Riley] Yeah.
- A bit nervous I was gonna miss it again.
- [Elayna] Impressive dive!
- Everyone was stoked!
- [Riley] This is what it's all about
(Elayna laughs)
- Delicious.
- [Judge] 70 metres.
- 70 metres.
(imitating judge)
That judge asked me if I'd like to come back next year
and compete at Cowell. (Elayna laughs)
- [Elayna] You might've heard Riley talking about Cowell.
He tells me that this is where he grew up.
Cowell had 1200 people, including the surrounding farmers
when he lived there.
And it's famous for its black stump.
He also told me recently that he still holds the record
for the 100 metre sprint, but he's a little disappointed
with the time as he says that Ms. Franklin apparently
hit the stopwatch a little late at the finish line.
(laughing) Riley's been diving down with those divers.
It's funny.
It's pretty cool to watch from up here.
(crowd cheering)
(Elayna giggling)
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- It's been such a good week so far
watching all the free divers compete and just hanging 'round
the blue hole like it really is a special place.
Getting to dive that, I feel really, really lucky.
So yeah, we've been getting into the diving as well,
and while we're here Riley's trying to beat
his personal best.
He's actually been hammering Adam quite a bit,
asking a lot of questions, which I thought was fine.
But I'm starting to think it might be getting
on Adam's nerves a little bit, because...
He's given Riley this ridiculous set of tasks
and exercises to do, and like I'm sure they're not legit.
But I'm not gonna stop Riley.
He's really keen so...
Yeah, I'm not sure what's goin' on there.
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(Riley panting)
- [Elayna] Riley, seriously what are you doing?
(frogs croaking)
Riley!
Alright, Riley.
- Time to brag!
- [Elayna] Time to brag.
(Adam laughing)
- [Elayna] What happened?
- Personal best, I got down to 37.
(Elayna cheering) (both applauding)
I'm pretty happy.
Some excellent coaching from my man--
- I'm gonna teaching him, 'cause soon he's gonna
overtake me.
(Elayna giggling) - Nah, c'mon.
- [Elayna] And you had to go on the monofin?
- Yeah, I was extraordinarily graceful.
They sent me out for a fail to give me shit,
but it didn't happen.
(Adam laughing hysterically)
- [Elayna] You were quite graceful, weren't you?
- Yeah!
- I believe your words were, "He looks like a seal."
(all laughing)
- [Elayna] Yeah, yeah, I said you were like flopping
like (laughing)
- [Riley] Well, seal's not too bad.
- [Adam] No, seal's alright.
- I've been called worse.
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- So it's the last night, and...
All the free diving crew are ready to party.
There's an after party down at the pub,
and they have a bit of a buffet for dinner
which will be quite nice.
A lot different to what we've been eating here.
Quick, we're late!
We've been so late this entire week.
Like Adam's like, "I'm on at 9:16."
And it takes a good 20 minutes to get to Dean's Hole
from here, and we've just been, yeah, hammering down
this dirt track to make it on time.
- Haven't been not late for anything in five years now.
- Yeah, we're always late.
It's really bad actually.
We have given Mr. T's car an absolute hiding
since we've been here.
- [Riley] Sorry, Mr. T.
(Elayna laughing)
- [Male Announcer] So the bronze medal goes to Alenka Artnik
from Slovenia, 105 metres, 98.13 points.
(audience cheering and applauding)
- [Female Announcer] William Trubridge.
(audience cheering and applauding)
Omer Liuchi.
(audience cheering and applauding)
- I'm really disappointed that I didn't call out
my personal best time.
I might tweet William Trubridge later.
It's a game, man.
That's not right.
What about the little guys?
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(wind blowing) (waves crashing)
- The thing that you should know that was pretty incredible
is that all of the competitors in this
freediving competition really, truly love what they do.
And hearing the way they talk about it
and all that sort of stuff it's just,
there's a deep passion for their sport
and a larger connection to the ocean that comes from it all.
It's starting to get a lot more popular now, freediving,
but when all these guys started it was just,
there wasn't much goin' on.
There's no money in the sport.
There was no popularity, neither fame nor fortune.
So there's just none of that involved
in what it is that they're doing.
And it was incredible listening to how they talk
about the ocean and their sport.
And it was really cool to get into the community a bit,
and they were very welcoming and that was very nice.
But more just the way they interact with each other,
and how they're matter-of-factly discussing the difference
between 96 metres and 99, and how many years it can take
to just get that extra metre when you get to those
sort of levels and depths.
Just on their connection with the ocean,
which is, they don't really talk about,
but it's very obvious because of...
They're all sort of not wearing shoes
and saying no to straws.
And they had trained the waitresses up
in the various restaurants that they wouldn't even bring out
any plastics or anything like that.
And just the whole...
Group and the atmosphere behind it was amazing.
It was really, really good.
Really excellent to be part of.
So thank you, everyone.
(scoffs) For being nice to us. (laughs)
For welcoming us in and...
Yeah, just hangin' out and for doing what you do.
I know I ended up, oh actually Adam got me down
to 39, which I'm gonna call 40 metres.
Because the watch doesn't necessarily ping
at exactly the depth that you're at.
So I'm gonna call it 40.
So it's not something that I was aiming for
or have been after for a long time.
I actually thought that I might be able
to get a bit deeper than that as I might have
alluded to earlier, but...
Yeah, it does become quite difficult the deeper depths
you get to.
It becomes exponentially more difficult,
because of the pressure.
It's not, see, it's more, for me, it was more
the pressure on your lungs.
So it's not about the breath hold.
I could hold my breath for a lot longer
than I needed to there to get down to those depths,
but it's just the squeeze that you're not used to.
So unless you're practising going to those depths,
there's not, there's a few different things that you can do,
there's not much apart from just experience
that's gonna help you.
Apart from just becoming comfortable in the water,
which Elayna and I have got lots of.
So that wasn't really the issue.
It was just the squeeze at those depths.
'Cause what's the rule?
If anyone's been scuba diving, you know it as well
I think everything halves at 10 metres
and then halves again at 20 and then halves again at 40.
So you're lungs aren't this big.
They're sort of like quite small.
And just even getting the air from your lungs
to your ears to equalise that was the problem.
- [Elayna] And then you gotta learn
different equalising techniques and--
- Yeah well, I'm not even there yet.
- [Elayna] Yeah, 40 metres though!
(slaps)
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(Elayna laughs)
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