FREEFALL a freediver’s journey into the heart of the cenotes - Tulum, Mexico

An epic journey freediving the mystic waters of the Mexican cenotes!
Hold your breath with Vitomir Maricic and descend the sacred freshwater sinkholes.
All underwater footage was performed and shot on breath-hold, without any help from pure oxygen, external sources of air or underwater scooter, to a range of -10m to -30m for the deepest shots.
We are highly trained professional freedivers.
#freediving #cenotes #underwater #shortfilm
Concept
Matthieu Duvault - Vitomir Maricic
Camera - Editing - Colouring
Matthieu Duvault
Freediver
Vitomir Maricic
Learn to freedive in the cenotes:
cenotefreediving.com/
/ cenotefreediving
More about us:
/ mattfreediver
/ maverick2go
Music by Bensound:
www.bensound.com

[@UnderwaterMallorca]

Beautiful! Well done combining freediving with high quality cinematography. Not easy! I’m still starting out on both fronts and getting these super clean shots and all these different angles and the lighting and white balance is really hard. And then the diving!

[@cenotefreediving]

Thanks a lot man! Yeah it was a real job to put it together, I m really happy you appreciate. I learned Da Vinci for that project, as it is the goat of color grading. I am very happy with the result, it def took some time to get there! hope you make great stuffs also! cheers! Matt

[@mikek.7126]

This video deserves millions of views. Kudos to all the team, especially cameraman. I'm curious how deep it was...

[@gogetoutsidepodcast]

At the end, it says up to 30 meters (so 100 feet).

[@cenotefreediving]

Thanks a lots! really warm my heart to touch people through photography and videography :-) Shots range from 5 to 30m for the deepest 👍🏻

[@bananacathammock]

Amazing how with the duck dive you can get to that depth. Exceptional! Everything is!

[@adrielh]

Absolutely incredible. 👏👏👏

[@TommiPasanen]

Awesome video with great cinematography indeed! Love it! 😍

[@anony-ic3pz]

Absolutely phenomenal! Loved every second! ❤

[@koheiueno5116]

Beautiful work! ❤❤❤

[@edwaldojoviliano5303]

Magnificent Work. Well done 👏

[@Wil_Dasovich]

Using this is my water meditation

[@martinremi3047]

Amazing project! Sound and video are insane :) OMG!

[@sirckunewbe_forever4237]

Just Beautiful! 🥰🙏🏼😇💙👌

[@afroditivrag.522]

Amazing work!! Greetings from Greece!

[@luisarthur3587]

Wow! Speechless!

[@marmstrongbb]

Amazing footage and so cool that I can now recognize some some of the locations :)

[@cinziaricciuti90]

Maravilla absoluta, pura poesía.

[@nicolelai2559]

Incredible ! 😍

[@RigzDigz]

Just crazy beautiful, nice work

[@TroyDeanMusic]

This is amazing fantastic work

[@OliChristenDrew]

Matt, Vito, this is awesome!!

[@georgeenelcaribemexicano]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW this is fricking awesome, thanks for sharing

[@luik457]

Great work! Awesome!

[@yesaira]

So so amazing!!🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 👏🏼😍😍

[@leeedgy4736]

Amazing! This is top level all around from the diving, to the video/editing! Well done👏🏼🔥

[@sironi79]

Respect Maričiću!🏆👍

[@ben.freediver]

Well done! Awesome images!

[@garyofnyc]

Beyond EPIC!!!!

[@7stones69]

What a wonderful talent and performance...trully

[@Myweddingnigeria]

Awesome! 👏👏👏👏

[@Aide71]

Plasma de manera maravillosa algunas de las bellezas que tiene mi país 🇲🇽

[@samudraaryawan3255]

Amazing 🔥🔥

[@Kouretn]

This is incredible

[@ursynkowal2746]

Unbelievable 💪

[@jessrifa]

Wow 😮 unbelievable

[@DaanVerhoeven]

Fantastic - such great images and a lovely grade!

[@moonfly664]

are you the freediver in the video?

[@DaanVerhoeven]

@@moonfly664 no that's Vitomir

[@strandgirl1000]

Wunderschöne Aufnahmen, toll gefilmt!

[@scanhead]

Extraordinary.

[@bladub5461]

BRAVO 👏 👍

[@catadromous1]

Amazing, really enjoyed the cinematography and the exploration of this underwater world!

[@cenotefreediving]

Thanks a lot for your positive feedback :-) I’m very happy to be able to share a little bit of our world through those projects 🙌🏻

[@mustakemakima]

​@@cenotefreedivingplease carry on! brilliant work! looking forward for more... thank you!

[@madbavoo]

very cool!!!

[@MauroFarinacci-eg8np]

Magnifico ,irreale ,oltre le possibilità umane .Complimenti a quest super atleta

[@cenotefreediving]

Thank you! lots of training to get there

[@bubblefisho3675]

Amazing and extraordinary beautiful. He glides so smoothly and in harmony. Great job from all safeties and cam guys. Videos like this motivate me to improve D(C)NF technique.

[@cenotefreediving]

Awe thanks a lot! Freediving is such a rich activity, so many different ways to enjoy it! CNF is definitely one ;-)

[@onpointtalks8014]

This is superhuman!

[@julianabarth4277]

By the way....... Makes me cry so amazing

[@av1vit]

How??!! wow! Super human! I was holding my breath too :)

[@lilalola6554]

U OK?😂

[@user-ql8om2qs6k]

Increíblemente hermoso video espacial! ¿Cuánto dura una respiración?

[@genuinetrueblue]

No ways this is insane

[@vposadas]

Wowwwww!

[@AdamBoltGoldCoast]

Crazy beautiful 🤘🤿❤

[@cenotefreediving]

Thanks a lot!! 😀

[@julianwuerzler]

Insane work! What filming setup did you use for these shots?

[@flyingideas2009]

You guys are my heroes. All the best. Nice movie. What camera did you use? Awesome images

[@gogetoutsidepodcast]

Those light rays are so majestic. An editing trick I think would have been fun around 2:20 would have been to have him emerge from the halocline upside down and then slowly rotate the camera to reveal which way is actually up. That way you maintain the screen direction from the previous scene and surprise the viewers a little bit when they realize what is happening. Then, you also wouldn't need that cross-dissolve at all. Either way, cool video and beautiful locations.

[@endrarain4545]

Tanks you

[@francescamarinato2985]

WoW!! Todo este tiempo sin respirar?

[@TheMatzker]

I just came from there....my cenote was nothing like this one, but I was totally creeped out inside....the bottom was pitch black, and there were catfish swimming around me. I was utterly creeped out. This is amazing, however. WOW.

[@user-oo6uq1om7y]

У меня один вопрос - КТО ЕГО СНИМАЕТ?! Это безумно красиво !

[@user-yx5bx7rt8n]

Там неизвестность ОНА великолепна манит своим МАГнит-влечение WoooW раскрыта тайна💫🌍 Видео и музыка прекрастны . Благодарю💎

[@mi5iu491]

Damn to be able to hold ur breath that long...

[@user-of4dy7ol3c]

nossa tem que ter muiito ar para ficar tanto tempo nas profundezas😳

[@bryankneis8286]

Wow this is beautiful. Is the diver made of steel? I cant believe how deep he got with the no fins duck dive and one pull without any weight

[@user-rq9yk9uk8j]

Смотрю и восхищаюсь таким зрелищем, до этого не знал, что такое существует, это фантастика, такое впечатление, что ты там находишься. Спасибо Вам за этот просмотр. 2024 год.

[@julianabarth4277]

What suit do you wear for your dives? I wear a 3/2 to keep warm, what would be better?😊

[@krzysztofsieradzki9333]

Wow

[@MoritaJunichiro]

👏🏻👏🏻

[@camilajaber876]

Bravo!!! Shot on breath hold! 🙌🏼

[@cenotefreediving]

This is the way 😌

[@sntshkmr60]

So how long did he hold his breath for?

[@baydaalaylaa3368]

Omg this is gorgeous! 10 to 30 minutes? You can actually hold your breath for 30 minutes? How? 😮

[@joelslotnikoff9085]

10 to 30 meters deep. Not minutes.

[@naidarincon7441]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😒😒😒😒😒😒

[@milothecatt]

If only I had oxygen like you

[@tonycollings9998]

Beautiful piece! How long was the total breath hold and what was final depth, I bet some incredible metrics!

[@brunosappl9717]

i would really want to know that as well

[@alexbragadejesus2390]

Geralmente 30 a 50 metros o fisiculturista tavi castro faz apnéia ai também ele desceu essa profundidade tempo não se sabe varia 5 a 8 minutos.

[@noosfera_It]

this is a combination of separate dive shots, world record dynamic apnea is about 4:30 with a depth of 134 m and a long freefall with agressive finning to the top, however these moves made on a video are extremely oxygen consuming, at least due to the fact that artistism is mostly a mental action, and to its dynamics, it is almost impossible to hold breath that effectively, as in a state of meditation, and when you only use whats needed in a moment to just move down or straight. When you cut out everything that doesnt serve going with least oxygen consumption, then probably a human may do so for 5 minutes on -50m.

[@petrodmytrovskyi]

Hi. Very beautiful video! What mask you used? Thank for information.

[@cenotefreediving]

Thanks man! That one is the C4 Falcon mask :-)

[@osym1938]

👏 🐳

[@evgeniikazakov7021]

Супер!!!

[@T.Q.]

No flippers?

[@gladisonn83]

Very nice👏👏🫡

[@carlosluna_films]

Cracks!

[@lark3414]

What happens if someone wants to swim in the mist? Is it safe to go that far?

[@cenotefreediving]

This Mist is actually a sulphur layer, trapped in between freshwater and saltwater, it is indeed toxic, but ok to cross it briefly like we do as freedivers :-)

[@Royalediamond_vlogs]

Как так?😮

[@snafu841]

how did you hold youre breth for so long

[@lilalola6554]

World record is 24 min

[@andywoiii887]

imagine me doing it one day 🤣

[@cenotefreediving]

New year new you ;-)

[@cherrieslover6800]

Angelita?

[@angieconley5957]

Time to step off the edge….

[@angieconley5957]

This scared me at 1st. But this may be the way of the world when the oceans take their land back. If these were sink holes why couldn’t pirate ships like Black Jacks ship be down in one.

[@sethunyaneorah]

As above so below…

[@ReliSuyskens]

Oxygenius

[@e.l.2734]

When he swam into the fart cloud

[@cenotefreediving]

😂

[@beryozoviy1]

Люди! Это не человек!

[@karlbuttler]

That takes a lot of training, all on one breath?jeez.....k

[@Royalediamond_vlogs]

Where is his oxygen tank?😧

[@cenotefreediving]

Hehehe All on breath hold!

[@xoen6]

...In the car :D

[@jacobohnona6849]

G- G- g- Gy- G

[@jeremybutterfield6024]

How in the fuck,,,?

[@angelolauria5957]

He breaths in the mask and lets it out through his mouth

[@skator7356]

i would love to dive there, top bad they shoot men as id they are shooting birds in mexico.

[@angelolauria5957]

U can breath in those goggles threw your nose hello wake up people

[@andrasszabo5896]

Absolutely no life down there???

[@angieconley5957]

I thought I ready after they break through the sulfur there a single cell organism….but that could be anything.

[@esztervida2738]

Is it not a stolen idea? It looks like Guillaume Néry's "one breath around the world" redone...

[@cenotefreediving]

This little short movie is totally inspired by the amazing work of Guillaume! Who would not, he literally defined the freediving underwater video scape :-) I know him personally and have all due respect for his work, being the first freediver to show the artistic side of freediving. I started freediving myself 10 years ago from guillaume's videos! This short film was a fun little project with vitomir in the idea of one breath, using sulphur clouds to "portal" between the cenotes we dive here everyday. I hope you liked it!

[@esztervida2738]

Thank you for taking the time and answering. Glad to read it. Best of luck for future projects ❤

[@MauroFarinacci-eg8np]

Da non imitare

[@c.ysmechanel]

Thanks for the plagiarism ahaha ! The ideas come from Guillaume Nery... Not you... Shame !

[@esztervida2738]

Had the same thought, seems like one breath around the word redone....

[@cenotefreediving]

This little short movie is totally inspired by the amazing work of Guillaume! Who would not, he literally defined the freediving underwater video scape:-) I know him personally and have all due respect for his work, being the first freediver to show the artistic side of freediving. I started freediving myself 10 years ago from guillaume's videos! This short film was a fun little project with vitomir in the idea of one breath, using sulphur clouds to "portal" between the centes we dive here everyday. I hope you liked it!

[@Rayma148]

Whaooooo ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@MikeWinkles]

Wonderful video! You guys did a beautiful job of capturing the amazing beauty of freediving the cenotes. I can't wait to visit again for more diving. -Mike @narcosis27

[@Cris-he9oe]

how long can he stay under the water?

[@waterfoker8558]

I can't breathe 😭