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WILLIAM TRUBRIDGE
FREEDIVER • SPEAKER • OCEAN AMBASSADOR
I have a relationship with the depths
they beckon me beyond my means
cold dark vacant pressure
forever night, endless dreams
18 Freediving World RecordS
6 WORLD CHAMPION TITLES
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.
As a keynote speaker, William talks of how he neutralizes stress and fear in his deepest dives; of how to go 'below the surface' of consciousness to access our intuition and creativity; and many more topics, both on stage and virtually.
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"The love of the diver for his world of wavering light.
His world of pearls and tendrils and his breath at his breast.
Born as a plunger into the deeps he is at one with every swarm of limegreen fish, with every coloured sponge.
As he holds
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William Trubridge, BSc, MNZM
AA Instructor, AIDA Instructor Trainer
Born May 24, 1980
Nationality New Zealand, UK
Height 185cm (6’)
Weight 80kgs (176lbs)
Lungs 8.1L (2.1Gal)
Languages English, Italian
William learnt to swim at the age of 2, and could freedive to 15m at 8 years old, but didn't begin serious training for the sport until 2003. Initially he studied in Italy under Umberto Pelizzari and other members of the Italian Apnea Academy, helping to found Apnea Academy International with English translations of the texts.
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.
Since then he has broken this record multiple times, and in 2010 he became the first human to d
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William Trubridge
New Zealand freediver and record holder
William TrubridgeMNZM (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.[1]
Life
Trubridge was born in Northumberland in northern England,[2] but moved with his family to New Zealand when he was eighteen months old.[3]
As a diver, Trubridge mainly competes in depth disciplines. He has scored the highest number of points for an individual at the Team's World Championships, 313.3, which he achieved at the 2010 Freediving Team's World Championships held in Okinawa, Japan.
On 18 January 2011, Trubridge won the World's Absolute Freediver Award (WAFA), as the best all around freediver, with the highest combined score in six freediving disciplines: static apnea, dynamic apnea with fins, dynamic apnea without fins (pool disciplines), constant weight ap
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