This article was published on June 9, 2010

The craziest thing i’ve seen in some time. Underwater base jumping. Mind blowing.


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This is Guillaume Néry, a French free-diver specialised in Constant Weight free-diving.

He broke the world record in 2002 at -87 meters in the Villefranche-sur-Mer harbour, in Alpes-Maritimes, France. Then, in 2004, he pushed the record to -96 meters in Saint-Leu, la Réunion. On September 6, 2006, he broke the record again at -109 meters in Nice (this record was subsequently broken by Herbert Nitsch at -112 meters in November 2007).

On July 3, 2008, he dove to -113 meters and set a new world record.

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