Alexey Molchanov WORLD RECORD 133m Free Immersion at Vertical Blue 2023 by Garmin.

On day 2 of #VB2023 Alexey Molchanov set his first world record at the invitational competition and had perfect symmetry with a dive time of 4:42 and a depth achieved of 442 feet.
-Event Organizer: William Trubridge
-Platform Coordinator: Sam Trubridge
-Chief of Safety: Marco Cosentino
-Safety Team: Roberto Berto, Kathleen Greubel, Kristine Zipfel, Omar Mourad, and Andrew Kang
-VB Media Officer/Executive Producer: Francesca Koe Owings
-Diveye Cinematography + Technology: Michal Biskup, Sebastian Kierzek, Piotr Flaczyk, and Adam Wachulewicz,
-Live production: Michal Biskup and Piotr Flaczyk
-Photography: Daan Verhoeven and Allie Reilly
-Videography: Allie Reilly
-Medical Team: Leigh + Bill Baker, Ryan Baugh, and Maria Joki
-Commentators: Eliette Rutledge & Harry McCahill

[@Markus-xm4zv]

If a free diver can achieve that goal, then imagine what a paid diver is capable of achieving ❤😅

[@THIRTEENTH13TH]

good one

[@parasmisri]

😂

[@sudstahgaming]

I love how sports develop over time, they go from extreme small communities into professionally formatted events like what we are seeing with included commentary.

[@tappajaav]

Money.

[@_cherly5097]

Is he the son of the one of the most famous free divers that recently died. Huge respect for him and his mother. ❤

[@drinny26]

I once held my breath and swam down 30ft to pick a conch shell up off the floor and when I surfaced i couldn’t believe what I had done and thought I was so lucky to be alive.

[@deano2160]

Did a similar thing on the barrier reef. Took a breath and went to go have a look at a big ole wooden wheel if I recall. It was deep but by chance I equalised pressure at every stage perfectly and didn't really feel deep I stopped about 20ft from the wheel and looked up at what were very small people on the surface. Fuck says I and I start my assent. I ran out of air about 2/3 of the way up but just stayed calm and did slow upward aiming movements and breached the surface. Has to be said it was a bit of a close call that one.

[@drinny26]

@@deano2160 same I was in the Bahamas. I was snorkeling and had on big fins and thought I shouldn’t have any problems. I made it down then realized holy shit I better stay calm and focus and just swim fast and i surfaced and thought I was so crazy but I still have that shell! Lol

[@janniesneed4511]

lmao I did the same once and my ears fucking exploded, never again

[@josephmother2659]

@@janniesneed4511it’s no joke glad you are ok! I hope you are doing well

[@dusanjovic7268]

Cuz you forgot to equalise pressure in your ears

[@jaganp]

How many of you are here after “ The deepest breath “ 😊

[@Consequensentor]

Me

[@i3l4ckskillzz79]

Yes exactly 😂

[@Stoic_Persistence]

Me, and man even after his mother died, he competes at the highest level

[@xandereynon5305]

All of us duh.

[@nikolaosdimitriadis1277]

Me

[@h2o7306]

Fiquei sem ar só de ver

[@HappyASScreatures]

This made me misty eyed. Congratulations! As a dolphin kicker myself i just think it's part of your aquatic spirit. Your monofin dives are my favorite but free immersion is awesome too. Beautiful dive. I hope y'all make a video with just music because those narrators were stressing and raising my heart rate yo

[@sergeyzubov6776]

Алексей,ты лучший!!! Поздравляю, фантастическое достижение!!!

[@user-uc9wk9wl4d]

ЛЕХА! КРАСАВА! Мы гордимся тобой!

[@MrKaktus148]

Алексей, вы чемпион. С очередным рекордом! Ура!!!🎉

[@Wil_Dasovich]

Incredible stuff, keeps going further and further! Limitless

[@MasterOfDesaster523]

dont think so

[@krisevangelista1714]

Incredible indeed bro. Hope to see you in the future diving those depths and representing ph in competitions. Congratulations on your record breaking breath hold. 👏🤙🏽

[@markjoseph196]

Extreme Free Diving long-term damages our Lungs , Eyes and Ears ( Barotrauma)…So it’s not good …

[@wompppwompwomppp]

There definitely is a limit when it comes to underwater diving, they just keep pushing it.

[@kamimcmmm]

@@markjoseph196how bad is the barotrauma? Can it be healed?

[@Yb-we1wi]

Красавчик. Поздравляю)

[@LeeChongKing]

I'm out of breath watching this video already. Incredible!!!

[@xWrongButtonx]

This instantly made me think of the movie The Big blue. Well done mate, well done.

[@jaronloar1762]

This is horrifying to me. Imagine holding your breath for 2 minutes and realizing you're still well over a hundred feet underwater...

[@henrychanner4032]

More like over 300 ft 🥴

[@jaronloar1762]

@@henrychanner4032 for real! 😬

[@mrobocop1666]

Bloody retarded units... I, much like almost whole World can't understand US movies because of them

[@bensl67197]

At 2 minutes he was still going down and just about to reach the bottom of the dive at 436 ft under water

[@jennifertehanisarreal]

WOW! So amazing to witness. Congratulations!!! What a huge accomplishment! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Well-deserved. What a feat! So happy for him.

[@OMARKHAN970]

Why don't you give try not in ocean but with crocodiles

[@tanyanovikova6071]

Просто невероятно! Поздоавляю!!!

[@fawadjafari2265]

Props for the cameraman that went down with him

[@user-ei5ql4pc5s]

Was it a camera man all the way down? I just assumed there was another rope with a camera on it

[@fitfen9610]

​@@user-ei5ql4pc5s yep, cameraman was also freediver, great work!!😅

[@franckdebank]

Lol

[@ve5cs]

​@@fitfen9610 I thought I could see bubbles from scuba gear??

[@matta5749]

@@ve5cs If someone with SCUBA were to go down with him they wouldn't be able to come straight back up. They'd have to stop to decompress at intervals along the way back up. The camera was probably on some sort of remote controlled submersible if I had to guess

[@robinmalina2645]

Congratulations!!! Limitless diver👍👍👍

[@navelpicker]

Absolutely fantastic, Alexey!

[@foetor]

Congrats! I have also a Garmin. So I am prepared for 134m ;-)

[@galavarez]

Amazing result, congratulations with new WR!

[@xapdkopf]

Легенда фридайвинга! Молодец, поздравляем!

[@odoacredacalcutta5085]

Beyond human. Those light pulls in the end scared the f*ck out of me. I thought he was about to black out. I guess lingering on a bit helped him absorb nitrogen and prevent narcosis. Anyway, incredible preparation, will and mental strenght. It's the mind where he shows what an athlete he is.

[@POMAH_TYT]

Алексей, поздравляю!!!🎉

[@willis4734]

What gets me is what is watching you from the darkness

[@ananas2510]

5:33 reminds me of HP and the goblet of fire during the lake task where their friends are tied to the ropes underwater with sea folk around…. Looks so cool

[@kirstymartin471]

Watch out for the grindylows!

[@clonk123]

Молодец! Очень круто!

[@diegoortiz3547]

El respeto del mundo a estos deportistas son sobrehumanos!🤯

[@covidcarl7480]

It's cool not having to decompress after going 400+ feet

[@mauriziotestino9998]

Wonderful Amazing Great Alex from an old scuba diver !

[@zeusv9804]

What a beast! I hope he eventually realizes there has to be a limit. The body can only take so much.

[@jasonlee4267]

and with the correct training and dedication and perhaps some excellent genetics we can always push further, you can guarantee that either him or someone will break that record

[@TheIrishMugFug]

theoretically, the limit is somewhere around 1000 feet

[@tappajaav]

@@TheIrishMugFug Source?

[@wompppwompwomppp]

​@@tappajaavyour body imploding? Human body isn't capable of handling the pressure past a certain point. Look how well that went for the people on the submarine that exploded

[@tappajaav]

@@wompppwompwomppp I know that human body can only withstand so much pressure, am just curious what'd he base his number off or where'd it come from. Also personally I think oxygen supply will be the limiting factor, not pressure

[@eldarius237]

Proud of and glad for Alexey!

[@user-qc9os3gj5g]

ПОЗДРАВЛЯЕМ❤🎉 ОГРОМНОЙ СИЛЫ ВОЛИ ЧЕЛОВЕКА!🎉🎉 ОТ ДУШИ..ЗДОРОВЬЯ И УДАЧИ!

[@ternikazaxa5275]

Казахстан с тобой ТИГР!!!! 🎉🎉🎉

[@user-fv5uw2tq5m]

Матушка-Россия гордилась тобой в 2018. как-же она гордится тобой сейчас!

[@alexeykisilier]

Alexey to Alexey 🎉

[@erick.9278]

Absolutely amazing!

[@ryanjohnson3615]

He's got that Innsmouth look...

[@PhotoStoryChannel]

❤supercool.....time by time human will find the best way

[@Mads-hl8xj]

Amazing!!! Congrats! :D

[@thomasturner8759]

Congratulations that was a insanely awesome dive

[@itstoomuchtoomuch]

Absolute Legend 💪

[@L_T86]

Alexey looks like he has oxygen for at least another minute or two. Amazing athlete! Congratulations!

[@EliasPfaiffer]

Take a look at his yesterday's blackout

[@KevinCalimachMorgan]

He was struggling the last 5 meters

[@augustmoon0004]

No chance... he would have been in serious trouble with 10 more meters

[@kanervatie]

Makes me wanna watch "Deep blue" once again.

[@domingovera]

I took 60 breaths watching this. 🤯🤯🤯🤯

[@user-jb4yj5ke1u]

Super! great record! Чемион!

[@gh8066]

i have no words

[@Mortarion6666]

Can someone please explain to me how they 'freefall'? Humans naturally float, do they not? Whenever I dive I'm always being pulled up toward the surface by the air in my lungs. Sorry if this is a dumb question I've never watched this sport before.

[@NittaSayuriii]

When you go deeper your lungs gets "smaller" because of the pressure, which makes you sink easier

[@Mortarion6666]

​@@NittaSayuriii oh wow, I never even considered the water pressure acting on your body. that makes sense. and makes it x10 more insane, and x10 more terrifying. thanks for answering

[@user-lx3gj5uq7m]

Алексе-Супер Стар!!!!

[@Kudataprostata]

Потрясающе!

[@user-se2zh2jy3x]

Μπραβο φοβερος 👍👍👍👍👍👌👌

[@cliveodriscoll2116]

MASSIVE CONGRATULATIONS

[@knuckletherapyserveothersf6092]

Incredible

[@caroljeeben7064]

My head hurts just imagining the pressure.

[@YunusOzdemir-nu9zi]

133 mt and 4:41 min. amazing performance👏🏼👏🏼

[@theMAKAproject]

Congratulations.

[@zhornik]

Молодец !❤

[@ReallyJustEeezy]

Go Big Lexiii

[@leonardofontes7007]

thats insane

[@lyft4238]

He dove the length of the SpaceX Starship almost 😮

[@alvarootero6528]

Ufhh amazing

[@mikepopstar]

Scary!

[@Mara941]

crazy sport

[@hbrjohn3890]

Can someone explain how come they go deeper than the ones with fins?

[@DudaZachary]

Using fins you use more energy swimming back up

[@nonculus]

he did the surface protocoll like it was a 10m dive what??!?!!?!!

[@Stronger5386]

🇷🇺 🎉🎉🎉

[@pkking678z]

I rarely exclaim out loud while watching a video… that being said, once they came up I was cheering!

[@asi6450]

Невероятно!

[@wavesnowaves]

Held my breath the whole way.

[@JD-re3cj]

Cool story bro you’re so much better than him

[@tappajaav]

@@JD-re3cj If you say so G

[@KarlisDorvalishvili]

Lot of things are happening here. For someone who has never watched anything about freediving prior to this, it is hard to understand. I am full of questions! - Before diving he is "packing". What does that mean? - How come at one point, he is in "freefall"? Why is he not floating? - When he is coming back, in the last 20 meters, i had the feeling he was about to pass out and was catching himself just at the last second to pull. What is that technique and what are the benefits?

[@tappajaav]

I'm not a freediver, or even diver, but I'll try to explain to my best knowledge(should I be mistaken, please anyone correct me) -Before the dive he uses special breathing technique to cram as much air in his lungs as possible -Deeper you go, more the pressure compresses the air in your lungs, causing you to lose buoyancy. -I don't think there's any special [named] technique in the end. He's just trying to work with minuscule amount of air, preserving what's left and trying to reach the surface to best of his ability

[@skimitar]

Imagine a free dive like that with no wire to hold on the way up. Still just amazing. Wow wow wow

[@tappajaav]

Ain't happening this deep. Both going down and up would require too much oxygen

[@Talittli]

Wow

[@teardrop720]

Legend!

[@alexlinenko5352]

🇷🇺 🇷🇺 🇷🇺 🇷🇺 🇷🇺 🇷🇺 🇷🇺

[@TikTacTow]

I lost my breath watching this..still hard to breathe

[@JAVTROOPER]

I just thinking how the hell the cameraman dive that fast with the diver ?? That shot is crazy cool

[@jarretclarke2894]

Wooooow….. some people are just built different… I don’t even think I could get my mind around being that deep in water lol

[@beachobsession29]

Incredible feat. Never knew anyone could hold there breath that long. He should be a navy seal. He deserves all the records he can get.

[@Peenpapu34932]

american moment

[@Snyde91]

Ah yes, he can hold his breath for a very long time. He should join the U.S navy and train to kill people and participate in wars. What an absolutely ludicrous thought process

[@wompppwompwomppp]

24 minutes and 37 seconds is the current record for holding breath (for humans at least) lol

[@wompppwompwomppp]

​@@Peenpapu34932the person who holds the world record for breath holding is croatian lol

[@clutchcure6821]

Did it for his mom incredible good job!!!

[@Algiers0001]

Good

[@michaeltaylors2456]

Wow I’m even worried about the safety divers

[@aidan4530]

Does he have weights on him? How does he go down so fast

[@garylist9]

Frickin ell. No words

[@MendicantBias124]

What a fuckin boss

[@psypepper]

Человек-амфибия))))

[@Raj-Boukensha]

What a beast!

[@PaulHobbs23]

Incredible, but seems super dangerous.

[@abshus4528]

The sea people's hold their breath up to 15mins they don't go deep .. But they can hold up to 15min

[@tappajaav]

This guy could also hold his breath way longer if he wasn't actively swimming.

[@marceloperalta464]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍💙💙💙💙

[@augnix888]

😮

[@notcat8782]

Cameraman never dies Also this is insane congrats

[@zsuzsannaivan5841]

holy s...t. its shocking.

[@jesusvaltierra8019]

Wow !! Wow 😯

[@feenixrunner9638]

I made some black cherry kool aid. Yum

[@user-ev8fv9lv1v]

Спорт вне политики? Почему не пишут название страны?

[@vodoleyir1588]

?👌

[@Lana-Ukraine]

@user-ev8fv9lv1v тому що всі росіяни фашисти 😈😈😈

[@AdamBorseti]

Your country has been vilified on the world's stage. Certainly unfair. Ask Putin.

[@niteshmurti]

was the camera lowered by some rope alongside Alexey?

[@tysonogloff]

yes

[@user-qc2rl4og3q]

Charamel belkebir pressant tout sauf à sans des essais .37an 2023

[@epicspacecow1779]

imma take a cig real quick

[@Alex-ni7bt]

Это безумие, мой рекорд 3 метра