Last Updated: December 14, 2023, 11:28 IST
Tavi Castro is an expert freediver, he has 4 million Instagram followers. (Image Credits: Instagram)
Freediving is an underwater diving method that doesn’t use any respiratory equipment and solely depends on the diver’s respiratory.
A surreal-looking video of a freediver swimming greater than 100 ft underwater is raking in likes on Instagram. The video options skilled freediver Tavi Castro. What makes the video particular is its mythical-looking high quality. Unlike most freedivers, Castro is just not carrying any swimming wear. He is shirtless and seemingly barefoot as he rests on an underwater rock earlier than swimming upwards. The video is lighted in such a means that every part round Castro appears foggy whereas a stream of lights shines on him. This video, taken within the Mexican coastal city of Tulum, has over 9 lakh likes. Castro posted this clip alongside a prolonged caption.
He wrote, “We suffer more in imagination than in reality. Another day exploring the underworld at 32 meters 100 feet underwater on breath hold. I’m asked if I ever panic underwater… it’s difficult to explain how peaceful and healing the experience actually is. The sound of your heart beat, pure presence, and complete weightlessness. Like the weight of the world lifted off your shoulders. Just for a little while …you can fly… an experience just long enough to recover from the chaos and mental disease of the modern world. If only you could all be there with me to understand…Is peace, success?”
In the feedback, many individuals referred to Castro as “Poseidon”, the Greek god of sea. A individual known as him “an anime villain”. An Instagram person wrote, “For a minute my brain turned 9 again and was like “oh my god mermaids” after which I noticed “oh it’s just a dude walking underwater. Oh wait oh that dude is walking underwater.” Roller coaster of feelings, I let you know.”
Amongst the congratulatory messages, many individuals additionally cautioned in opposition to the romanticization of journey sports activities like freediving. A individual wrote, “This is actually how many divers die. They get so comfortable in the water that their body will never panic. They will simply pass out from lack of oxygen without before their brain can register the need for it.”
In November final 12 months, Miguel Lozano, a freediving entrepreneur from Barcelona, Spain, blacked out underwater in an try to interrupt the world document for the deepest dive.
Lozano was fortunate that the rescue crew acted promptly and managed to provide him oxygen and pull him again to the floor. Lozano misplaced consciousness because of the lack of oxygen when he reached a depth of 125 meters or 410 ft underwater.
