Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Deep Highlight

One of the best experiences for me of 2008 was seeing the Arch. The Arch is the upper part of an opening in the Blue Hole, Dahab, Egypt. The Hole itself is about 90 meters deep and surrounded by coral and rock, but at one point about 56 meters down, the rock opens and there's a passage to the open sea. To see this passage and its Arch with the most incredible blue light shining through from the open sea, you have to dive 50 meters down, and i managed it this year. I hung there a bit in amazement and felt the pull to swim through, but i would probably have not survived that, so i went back up. This video is of William Trubridge, the first man to swim through the arch (60 meters down, 30 horizontal, 60 back up) without fins and without a suit (with speedos, though; the whimp).

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oeps Daan, William Trubridge was niet de eerste. Dat was William Winram!!!!!

Unknown said...

Jawel, Will T. was de eerste zonder vinnen EN zonder pak. Hebben ze even een nieuwe categorie voor uitgevonden. De eerste unashamed, daar zitten we nu op te wachten.