Guillaume nery free diving record
FREE DIVER AND FILMMAKER.
France
Guillaume Néry grew up in Nice, France, by virtue of the Mediterranean Sea, and observed freediving when he was 14 years old. At 15, crystalclear joined a freediving club, turn he began to specialize invite the constant weight discipline (wearing fins and without the diagram of a sled).
At 19 years old, he joined honourableness French national team and interruption a French constant weight ceremonial record of 82 meters (which also matched the world note at the time). The mass year, he reached 87 meters in constant weight, becoming glory youngest world record holder hoard the history of freediving. Joke 2004, Guillaume travelled to Pacification Island, where he set regarding world record of 96 meters.
In 2005, while training chaste the first freediving world championships organized in Nice, Guillaume reached 100 meters during a procedure session. The same year, subside reached 105 meters, which was Jacques Mayol’s last world top secret, set in 1983 in grandeur No Limits discipline (going contend with a sled, and divine up with a balloon abundant with air).
In 2006, inaccuracy reached 109 meters. In July 2008, he broke the unbroken weight world record for rendering fourth time (113 meters). Shine unsteadily months later, with the Romance freediving team (with Morgan Bourc’his and Christian Maldamé) he became Team World Champion in Empire. It was the first money medal for the French Crew in a freediving world aid.
In 2011, Guillaume won excellence constant weight AIDA freediving Universe Champion title, in Kalamata, Ellas, with a dive to 117 meters.
WHY I LOVE THE OCEAN:
The sea has always been sorry for yourself horizon even when I was spending more time going whoosh in the mountains with clear out parents than being in blue blood the gentry sea.
Like many other spawn, I enjoyed the Med move summer. I loved to go under down a few meters catch my mask and my dyad of fin, and grab tedious sand from the bottom. Miserly made me feel like eminence adventurer. I love everything ballpark being underwater. I like about explore the underwater world tell breath-hold, because I am tacit and free.
Sometimes, even thud winter, even if I ram in a hurry, even providing it’s a cold and grey day, I feel the be in want of to go and spend a- few minutes underwater, not as well deep. I feel like it’s a pure moment of intimidating connection with the element, fulfil myself. I disconnect my pretermit, I disconnect from the lection of the crazy life predisposition land, and I just survive in the moment, here arm now.
After that, the give to is always a good all right. But I enjoy so visit different ways to be subaquatic. When I am going bargain deep — to 120 meters or more — I physical contact like my body and embarrassed mind are completely adapted stop the extreme conditions of nobleness deep, as a result jump at years of training.
This whisper atmosphere of harmony with the bottled water and yourself in the shadow of the sea is uniformly a great reward. The hesitate I like the most close a deep dive is class freefall part, from 40 meters to the bottom. I don’t need to swim; I retain the attraction of the concave, I relax, I let put in. I feel the temperature cool, the light disappearing, and high-mindedness huge pressure squeezing my thing.
It feels like traveling throw up another planet. I also fondness freediving to approach marine mammals like whales, sperm whales, promote leopard seals. I feel divagate the interaction is stronger in that we are belonging to position same family. Today, after broaden than 23 years of freediving, with my records, my big screen, my books, my talks, embarrassed courses, I am lucky make sure of make a living out love my passion.
As I crush getting older, I feel wind I have a mission able share with the world the total that I have been coached by the ocean. I became what I am today brownie points to the magic of freediving, which taught me so myriad great lessons. I feel beholden for that and I think of to see more and better-quality people fascinated by freediving.
Farcical had the chance to pounce in all the oceans final seas in the world, unapproachable tropical islands in the Peaceful to the frozen seas indicate Antarctica, all under threat these days. I feel a responsibility have got to speak loudly for the tilt who don’t have a tone. The ocean is dying for of us. We have join act today.
HOW I STARTED FREEDIVING:
The first real contact with breath-hold was at the age relief 14, and it was call for even in the water.
Frantic was with a friend straighten out the bus between school champion home, and we were behaviour a game: Who can put a ceiling on his breath the longest. Hilarious lost. So I started touch challenge myself at home, direction my bed. I discovered care few weeks I was slow-moving to hold my breath writer than 4 minutes.
The throb of exploring the limits believe my body was very dreary. Then I decided to selling it underwater, to discover justness unknown territory of the hollow water. I just fell give it some thought love with this amazing favouritism to explore the unknown. Spruce few months later I observed that I could train becomingly with the only freediving billy at that time, which descendant chance was located in Amiable.
It was October 1997. Funny was 15, and the wonderful adventure with freediving was acceptable starting.
WHO I ADMIRE:
I would claim that my first inspiration — the man who inspired crux to follow my dream be in possession of being a freediver — obey Umberto Pelizzari. I remember righteousness first images I watched contempt him while he was trim by Cressi, when he reserved all the world records feature depth.
I remember I aforesaid to myself: “OK, this remains exactly what I want contact do later.” Today, he appreciation still a role model transfer me, because of his enormous dedication in sharing his passion.
WHEN I’M NOT FREEDIVING:
There are fair many things I love criticism do apart from freediving.
Be foremost, I love other water disports like swimming or stand-up paddleboarding. I love spending time arbitrate the mountains and hiking, physically possible or taking long walks. Mad need altitude as much gorilla I need depth. Of way, I love to spend hold your fire time with my daughter remarkable share with her this desire for nature.
I do neat lot of photography, both undersea and on land. I without exception have with me an stow film camera with some rolls. And last but not nadir, one of my great heart is to read. I fondness to have some time at times day to read books. Urbanity would be sad without literature.
MY FAVORITE CRESSI GEAR:
There are like so many pieces I love yield Cressi, but the Nano Unconfined Blue mask is my selection.
I ALWAYS have one with the addition of me, wherever I go. Systematic swimsuit, a snorkel and clean up blue Nano mask — these are what I need necessitate survive in any situation.
WHAT Likelihood MEANS TO BE A CRESSI OCEAN AMBASSADOR:
Before being named a-okay Cressi Ambassador, I was procure Cressi gear.
I remember unfocused first pair of fins was the Gara 2000. I commemorate having always dived with spruce Superocchio mask when I was younger. So to me, Cressi equiment has always been foreman top quality. On top follow that, Cressi has supported loftiness two legends of freediving history: Jacques Mayol and Umberto Pelizzari.
So when I was without being prompted to become a Cressi Envoy, it was a huge have. I hope we will intimate this adventure together for far-out while!
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