William Trubridge

May 3, 2016::::12:54 AM EDT – New Zealander William Trubridge set a world record – his 16th one – by free diving 400 feet underwater in the Bahamas on April 30. He proceeded to break his record two days later, going six feet deeper for a total of 124 meters.

William Trubridge (born on 24 May 1980) is a world champion and double world record holding freediver from New Zealand. He was born in the UK but moved to New Zealand when he was 18 months old.

As of 2013 Trubridge holds the world record in the free immersion and the constant weight without disciplines, and was the first to break the 100m barrier unassisted.

Trubridge mainly competes in the depth disciplines. He additionally scored the highest number of points for an individual 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) naming him best all around freediver, with the highest combined score in six freediving disciplines::: with fins, dynamic apnea without fins (pool disciplines), constant weight apnea with fins, constant weight without fins, and free immersion (depth disciplines).

Trubridge is an Apnea Academy instructor and as of 2013 operates a freediving school and annual competition, both called Vertical Blue, at Dean’s Blue Hole in from September to May. During the summer he teaches courses in Europe.

Trubridge was the main subject of a documentary entitled “Breathe” directed by Martin Khodabakhshian, which documents Trubridge’s pursuits in 2010 to become the first freediver ever to reach 300 feet with a single breath in the discipline of constant weight no fins.

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