This is both fascinating and bizarre.
Watching the video of this man free-diving to the bottom of the deepest pool in the world is both mind-boggling and incredible, and yet:
1. I don’t understand the desire to free dive. I cannot fathom (see what I did there?) the desire to swim as deep and far as possible on a single breath of air while risking your life in order to do so. And while it’s true that there are many other desires that I don’t understand (skydiving, marathon running, baking), free diving seems to hold absolutely no reward.
You can see the bottom of the pool with or without a tank of oxygen. I’m not sure how the lack of life-sustaining air makes the experience any more compelling.
2. Who spends millions building a creepy-ass pool like this? Sure, you might want to build the deepest pool in the world, but does it have to look like the inside of a water treatment plant from a Bond film?
