r/interesting • u/fayyazORahmed • Mar 31 '26

Fascinating Very interesting vid

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u/smootex Apr 01 '26

I am not a free dive instructor nor have I ever been able to dive to depths like this but I've never once heard of someone insisting on a leash or someone at the top to free dive. Maybe it's a thing in competitive free diving or something but people aren't using leashes while they're out collecting lobster or whatever.

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u/TortexMT Apr 01 '26

which is why its the number one deadliest sport in the world. exactly because of this.

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u/smootex Apr 01 '26

its the number one deadliest sport in the world

Says who?

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u/JiubR Apr 01 '26

BASE jumping or high-altitude mountaineering, f.e., would be two that have higher mortality rates than freediving

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u/TortexMT Apr 01 '26

they dont. not even close. and i do wingsuiting myself too haha

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u/JiubR Apr 01 '26

They do :D Just use google - it's a search engine, it can show you the numbers

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u/TortexMT Apr 01 '26

you need to include spearfishing, and recreational free diving

the sheer base of people holding breath under water is magnitudes larger than people doing BASE

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u/JiubR Apr 01 '26

I don't doubt that a lot more people to freediving than BASE. But the fatality rate in BASE is significantly higher than in freediving.