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William Trubridge MNZM (born 24 May 1980) is a New Zealand world champion and world record holding freediver. Trubridge was the first diver to go deeper than 100 metres (330 ft) without oxygen and as of 2013 held the world record in the free immersion and constant weight without fins disciplines.
William Trubridge is the world's deepest man, having freedived unaided on a single breath to a depth of 102 meters (334 feet). He is the founder of Vertical Blue, the most prestigious freediving event in the world, held annually at Dean's Blue Hole, Long Island, Bahamas.
In this extraordinary talk -- part meditation, part heart-stopping adventure -- world champion free diver William Trubridge not only takes you there, but offers a profound answer to the question: "Why do you do it?"
In 2005 William was the first freediver to dive at Dean's Blue Hole, now recognised as the world's premier freediving venue, and site of the annual Vertical Blue event. There, in April 2007, he broke his first world record in the discipline of CNF (Constant Weight No Fins), diving to 81m .
May 19, 2011 · Suunto dive ambassador William Trubridge sets a new world record in freediving by diving to 101 meters (CNF ie unassisted). The record was made in Dean's Blu...
May 6, 2016 · That’s what world record-holding freediver William Trubridge did–twice–this past week at the annual Vertical Blue diving competition at Dean’s Blue Hole on Long Island, Bahamas.
This story is about how world champion Kiwi freediver William Trubridge turned that one breath into a diving ability that can rival some aquatic mammals—a story of endurance, obsession and science.
William Trubridge (born on 24 May 1980) is a world champion and double world record holding freediver from New Zealand. He was born in the UK but moved to New Zealand when he was...
Feb 27, 2018 · William Trubridge is one the world’s outstanding freediving talents. He has 18 world records to his name, as well as being a five-time – and the current – world freediving champion....
May 6, 2016 · When free diver William Trubridge surfaced from his astonishing 122-metre plunge at the Vertical Blue competition in the Bahamas recently, he had broken the world record. Unsatisfied, he did it again two days later.
