Freediving on 20/20
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Category: Diving
Forum Name: Spearo's Corner
Forum Description: Free-divers & spearos chat about their sport
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Printed Date: 11 Jun 2026 at 7:50am
Topic: Freediving on 20/20
Posted By: Mullins
Subject: Freediving on 20/20
Date Posted: 07 Oct 2008 at 10:39am
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Ok some advanced warning this time, apparently set to air this Thursday: http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/497100/2178097 - http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/497100/2178097 I bet they'll focus on the death/danger/suicide aspect a fair bit. But there should be some great footage from the Egypt comp (40m vis, good cameras and multiple divers filming), I haven't even seen it yet. Pete Cronshaw was right into it and had a pretty good understanding of what it was about, so it won't be one of those frustrating docos where they don't have a clue about the sport they're describing. They say they also have some good blackout footage to include, I wonder which of us will get the honours...? |
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Posted By: Nick.
Date Posted: 07 Oct 2008 at 10:57am
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The blue face blackout club, has a ring to it! |
Posted By: Mullins
Date Posted: 07 Oct 2008 at 11:23am
It was more a shade of purple/grey 
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Posted By: Azazel
Date Posted: 07 Oct 2008 at 12:50pm
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I hope they don't have either of mine, but I strongly suspect they do :( Kathryn's Taupo depth BO is a sure thing, then maybe some from the WCs? |
Posted By: Mullins
Date Posted: 07 Oct 2008 at 1:18pm
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Yeah, I expect they'll have K's BO on there. They also have footage of
Ant's BO and Will's samba from WCs, and possibly those of other
competitors although I don't think Debs filmed much aside from our
dives. AIDA NZ will have the footage of your BO and also surface footage of mine from the Blue Hole, the question is whether Fran handed it over or not.... :) |
Posted By: Andr'e
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2008 at 11:02pm
It didnt show, they cut you.  ------------- miss by an inch miss by a mile |
Mullins wrote:Posted By: Mullins
Date Posted: 10 Oct 2008 at 8:29am
| Yeah apparently we got pushed back to next week by some court case or other. |
Posted By: Paul G
Date Posted: 10 Oct 2008 at 8:54am
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Flicked between the swimming with sharks thing on prime and 20/20 hoping to catch it. Will try again next week.
I dunno about some of those shark guys. Seems to me they are taking risks.
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Posted By: Mullins
Date Posted: 10 Oct 2008 at 9:24am
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Sorry about that, I should have mentioned it probably wasn't on but wasn't 100% sure what their scheduling was. The guy talking about his spiritual connection with Bull sharks was a bit much. |
Posted By: Andr'e
Date Posted: 10 Oct 2008 at 3:50pm
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I was flickn between the two as well. That program on prime was like you say, a bit much. That new camera they use to put inside your body on 20/20 had amazing clarity. obviously waterproof and small enough to mount on your gun. If only it could run off batterys! ------------- miss by an inch miss by a mile |
Posted By: Mullins
Date Posted: 10 Oct 2008 at 4:09pm
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Could mount it on the tip of a spear! That would be a great slow-mo shot. |
Posted By: fish food
Date Posted: 14 Oct 2008 at 8:13pm
| So its on this thursday night? |
Posted By: Phantom Menace
Date Posted: 14 Oct 2008 at 9:26pm
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The TVNZ website says it is on this Thursday (at the moment anyway - it said so for a while last week as well).
Have a look at: http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/497100/2197347 - http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/497100/2197347
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Posted By: Mullins
Date Posted: 14 Oct 2008 at 9:47pm
| Apparently there have been some ads for it, so it should be on this Thurs |
Posted By: Rabwolverine
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2008 at 2:02pm
| Yeah saw the ad for it today. Should be this week as it takes up more than half the ad. |
Posted By: Mullins
Date Posted: 16 Oct 2008 at 4:32pm
| Haven't seen the ad but it sounds like they are indeed going to play up the Freak/Deathwish/Danger side quite a bit. Ahh well. Deep diving is tough and a very unpleasant thing to put yourself through so I wasn't about to make up pleasant stories about it. I was at pains to point out the actual risk is small, however. Let's see if that bit makes it to air..... |
Posted By: Rabwolverine
Date Posted: 16 Oct 2008 at 4:38pm
I beleive the ad labelled it "the most dangerous sport on the planet"... 
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Posted By: Mullins
Date Posted: 16 Oct 2008 at 4:48pm
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Classic |
Posted By: Nick.
Date Posted: 16 Oct 2008 at 5:01pm
and on the advert, dave is in the same segment as Obama
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Posted By: kolt45
Date Posted: 16 Oct 2008 at 5:56pm
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Can't wait to see it! Don't even start on American politics..... |
Posted By: JigNut
Date Posted: 16 Oct 2008 at 9:51pm
Very very interesting DAVE YOU ARE A FREAK OF NATURE  Can't wait for the water to clean up It will be my pleasure to put you on a 72mtr Rock of Kapiti  BTW I promise I wont tie you to a sled or weights...We will just get the tide right ------------- https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fans-Of-Synit-Rods/137662896327800 |
Posted By: Rusky
Date Posted: 16 Oct 2008 at 9:52pm
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Good one Dave.
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Posted By: Hightower
Date Posted: 16 Oct 2008 at 9:56pm
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Great segment on the show - came across really well! Really well done
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Posted By: jr.spero
Date Posted: 16 Oct 2008 at 9:57pm
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how long can most of you guys hold your breath for on the surface? ------------- "is it dead?" |
Posted By: Troy Tempest
Date Posted: 16 Oct 2008 at 10:00pm
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I Agree came across really well, for you and the sport Great job.
When are you going for President?
Or did I miss something? ------------- ·.¸¸.·´¯'·.¸¸·´¯'·.¸¸.·´¯'·.¸ ><((((º> .¸¸·´¯'·.¸¸.·´¯'·.¸ ><((((º> Just quietly getting on with it... |
Posted By: TheSnapperWhisperer
Date Posted: 16 Oct 2008 at 10:02pm
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Dave's a fat mailto:b@stard - b@stard
Good effort! ------------- http://www.facebook.com/TheSnapperWhisperer |
Posted By: fish food
Date Posted: 16 Oct 2008 at 10:05pm
| Damn missed half of it! saw it from shooting what looked like a jock stewart. is it available to download?. |
Posted By: kolt45
Date Posted: 16 Oct 2008 at 10:16pm
 "You'll never see a fat freediver". Sounds like freediving could be the next big thing in weight loss.  I thought it was an excellent piece - well done by all. |
Posted By: Mullins
Date Posted: 16 Oct 2008 at 10:19pm
Haha, yeah that was Fran - it was a big one though eh! We'd been filming over the top of it for half an hour and it hadn't moved, so we talked her into shooting it.
Torcea, I was going to ask you about that rock! Would need pretty still water and good vis for 72 metres but still do-able. Very keen to see what's lurking down there...
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Posted By: Mullins
Date Posted: 16 Oct 2008 at 10:23pm
| Fran's account of weight-loss was a bit wayward. It's more to do with acidosis (lactic acid in particular causing high blood acidity) that breaks down muscle, plus the overall inefficiency of anaerobic metabolism means you use heaps of calories. But hey, it's still weight-loss... |
Posted By: Nick.
Date Posted: 16 Oct 2008 at 10:33pm
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imagine getting that out on camera, thats a complete mouth full. Fran summed it up nicely for the general public.
very nice, Hi5
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Posted By: Paul G
Date Posted: 16 Oct 2008 at 10:52pm
| Yep, enjoyed watching that. Thanks. |
Posted By: Mullins
Date Posted: 16 Oct 2008 at 10:55pm
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Did anybody notice that in one of the fish pics they showed I had longer hair and a nice set of tits? I did tell them that was a pic of my girlfriend, but that bit of info must have been lost somewhere in post...
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Posted By: Eric de Vries
Date Posted: 16 Oct 2008 at 11:09pm
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Great show indeed.
Dave was that the pic with the small kingie in the silver suit? ------------- http://www.southernbluefins.co.nz/ |
Posted By: pennyless
Date Posted: 17 Oct 2008 at 8:17am
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Great show well done Dave. ------------- The wife said if i go fishing one more time she will leave me, god i'm going to miss her |
Posted By: Mullins
Date Posted: 17 Oct 2008 at 8:36am
I'm glad somebody picked it
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Posted By: Phantom Menace
Date Posted: 17 Oct 2008 at 8:37am
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Good stuff! Thanks to Dave, Fran and the others involved! For those that missed it here is a link to the 20/20 webpage where you can access the 13 minute video. (I guess it will be in tvnzondemand in a couple of days)
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/497100/2197347 - http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/497100/2197347
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Posted By: Steve Hath
Date Posted: 17 Oct 2008 at 9:09am
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Congrats Dave, that was an awesome article. It's great to see a Kiwi kicking butt on the world stage.
The best is yet to come!! |
Posted By: spearo_steve
Date Posted: 17 Oct 2008 at 9:57am
| Let's hope that inspires Helen (or John) to give you a hand with your costs Dave! |
Posted By: Nick W
Date Posted: 17 Oct 2008 at 10:05am
| Great article, good stuff Dave. Im hoping to come down to do Kapiti some time soon, will be in touch. |
Posted By: Bull
Date Posted: 17 Oct 2008 at 10:15am
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Dave that was a really nice report, they could of butchered it but they didn't. Kathryn will be stoked being a tv star! Noticed the silver suit wasn't you.... thought it may have been Nick Little bit worried all these 16 year old girls will start drowning themselves to get thin! Amazing how not many fat freedivers but plenty of fat spearos... did some breathing exercises last night and struggled to find my ribs let alone feel my backbone through my stomach as Fran demonstrated! ------------- http://www.squidfish.net/ �.��.���'�.�����'�.��.���'�.� ><((((�> |
! Posted By: Eric de Vries
Date Posted: 17 Oct 2008 at 10:18am
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Josh. You sure you were trying to feel your ribs  ------------- http://www.southernbluefins.co.nz/ |
Posted By: BlairM
Date Posted: 17 Oct 2008 at 10:25am
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Yea that was cool. Especially Ants B/O! Funny hearing you negotiate some of the loaded questions... Was the mono footage in the Bahamas? Looked very inviting. You and Fran spoke well. |
Posted By: long john
Date Posted: 17 Oct 2008 at 10:26am
Had to work last night so that online link was a lifesaver. Very cool! Well done Dave and Fran
------------- Proud member of the Glen Innes Spearfishing Club |
Posted By: BlairM
Date Posted: 17 Oct 2008 at 11:21am
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Also... I thought it was good how you described the feeling of being deep. Freediving gets romanticized a fair bit and the footage looks graceful and I think its easy for people to assume its just holding your breath, a bit uncomfortable but otherwise quite nice for a trained diver, which isn't accurate. Not that I have ever been really deep. But I can imagine it gets pretty crazy down there from the diving that I have done. It seems other deep divers talk of mystical connections with the abyss and all that but you don't often hear about how it feels in practical terms. Was nice to hear a different perspective.. |
Posted By: f3dive
Date Posted: 17 Oct 2008 at 2:12pm
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All the kindy mum's want your phone number Sir Dave. Not sure Tam would like me giving it out. Sorry for not being technical enough Dave....uuumm
signed
wayward matriarch
p.s wait until you see the follow up story guys
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Posted By: TheSnapperWhisperer
Date Posted: 17 Oct 2008 at 3:26pm
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You're looking pretty sharp there Fran - I gotta say that's a tidy bod for a mum of 2 (if you don't mind me saying so!). Keep up all the good work. ------------- http://www.facebook.com/TheSnapperWhisperer |
Posted By: Mullins
Date Posted: 17 Oct 2008 at 3:50pm
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Ok ok I take back the 'wayward' comment. The techie version wouldn't have made much sense to them anyways
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Posted By: Nick.
Date Posted: 17 Oct 2008 at 4:11pm
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Bull: i take it as a compliment Mullins: Aleisha was saying how skinny you were and thought the camera made you look alittle shorter, then I told here that it wasnt you, it was either Ant or Will!! I guess when youve got a mask on, the general public can't realy tell who's who. Kathyns BO was pretty calm, she looked pretty dead to me for a awhile. |
Posted By: Speedy
Date Posted: 17 Oct 2008 at 4:18pm
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That was way cool! Seriously impressed, and very professional looking set up. But something that I happy to leave to you guys to master!
Hope it all keeps going great for you guys...
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Posted By: f3dive
Date Posted: 17 Oct 2008 at 4:49pm
thanks Reid, you don't look too shabby either for a daddy of two also. guess i should have added breath holding AND looking after kids keep you in shape.
The camera men were telling me how they needed the wide angle lens just to fit me in. guess they needed the long angle lens for lanking boy there.
Cheers Dave.
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Posted By: Mullins
Date Posted: 17 Oct 2008 at 4:51pm
Yeah it was pretty cool how they played Massive Attack to the diaphragm stretches  |
Posted By: Mullins
Date Posted: 17 Oct 2008 at 4:53pm
I'm taking the john dory approach to spearfishing. Turn side-on and the fish can't see me.... |
Posted By: Andrew
Date Posted: 17 Oct 2008 at 6:42pm
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5cq39mRslo - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5cq39mRslo ------------- www.projectlocal.co.nz Everything fishing,scuba diving and spearfishing in New Zealand. |
Posted By: water baby
Date Posted: 17 Oct 2008 at 7:41pm
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hey dave they said that you are a freak of nature with 15l lungs did you train to get them that size or were you born that way (some have big feet ,hands ............. he he he he he he he
------------- There is heaps of room for all god's creature next to the mashed potatos |
Posted By: Mullins
Date Posted: 17 Oct 2008 at 8:24pm
| My lung volume is naturally quite high, but packing adds about 3.5l. |
Posted By: pomblasta
Date Posted: 18 Oct 2008 at 7:47pm
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BLOOD Y GUTTED!!!!!! i missed the show any way i can see it? did anyone record it? also what is packing??? i have read people talking about it but i never knew what it was?? how do you do it ?
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Posted By: Phantom Menace
Date Posted: 18 Oct 2008 at 8:30pm
Pomblasta - link posted earlier in the thread - see above.
Also it should be on http://www.tvnzondemand.co.nz - www.tvnzondemand.co.nz once it is moved from the link above.
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Posted By: tuco
Date Posted: 22 Oct 2008 at 8:03pm
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Would any of the more tech savvy here be able to slap this on bittorrent? I can't seem to view this from the link and it's probably a keeper anyway. Also when it's on tvnz wont be able to view from here in Oz (NZ only IP's). Anyway, looking forward to watching this. Cheers |