Sharyn Alfonsi talks to Alexey Molchanov about reaching the top of his sport by diving hundreds of feet into the ocean with just one deep breath.
If you've never heard of free diving, imagine this. Launching yourself hundreds of feet into the sea with little more than a mask, a If you've never heard of free diving, imagine this: launching yourself hundreds of feet into the sea with little more than a mask, a heavy dose of bravery and one deep breath.
Molchanov can dive more than 39 stories deep – while holding a single breath for nearly five minutes. At around 65 feet he drops his arms to his side and enters free fall. His lungs are now a third of their surface size and he starts to sink. He is clipped to a dive line that can yank him back to safety. He's already been under water for almost two-and-half minutes.
That's something the world of competitive free diving has worked hard to prevent by adding safety divers, underwater monitoring and doctors at every event. Sharyn Alfonsi: Have you ever had a blackout? Alexey Molchanov's famously easy temperament is how 'the machine' earned his other nickname:"the golden retriever."Arnaud Jerald: For me it's like a dream. All the time he's laughing or smiling. All the time he enjoys life. And it's beautiful.Arnaud Jerald and Camilla Jaber are friends and competitors with Molchanov. Jaber holds a national record for Mexico and Jerald has French records to his name.Arnaud Jerald: I think experience.
Last spring, he stepped into the ice in Siberia, for a swim. It was 14 degrees outside when he broke another world record: the deepest dive under ice with fins. On a single breath, Molchanov swam to 262 feet deep in 37-degree water.Alexey Molchanov: That was not. It wasn't as joyful as here for sure.Alexey Molchanov: It does. It makes the face numb. And you just lose heat very fast and it-- it gives you a very short period of time when I was able to dive. And I would need to focus fast.
It's a technique he learned from his mother, Natalia Molchanova, considered the greatest free diver of all time. She came to the sport at 40 years old after a successful swimming career in Russia.
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