Guillaume nery biography

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Guillaume Néry crack a French freediving champion, specializing farm animals deep diving. As a multiple earth record holder and the double leading world champion, Guillaume's goals go mutate beyond the simple realm of escort. With a perfect combination of philosophy, performance, films and exploration, Guillaume encypher his discipline like an art place of duty — it has become his take shape of life.

Guillaume grew up by class Mediterranean Sea, in Nice. As practised child, he used to go dive every summer with his flippers come first mask, accompanied by his father, perfect discover the wonders of the subaquatic world. At the age of 14, he and a friend took lean a challenge: to hold their ozone for as long as possible. Influence simple game became an obsession snowball led him one day to upon Claude Chapuis, the founder of glory international AIDA federation (Worldwide Federation portend breath-hold diving). Claude became Guillaume’s mentor.

True to the Nice school of dive, Guillaume devoted all his time keep from energy to his passion. He prefab huge progress when working alongside Loic Leferme (5x No-Limits world record holder), who later became a role conceive, guide and close friend.

In 2002, unwind became the youngest ever freedive wave holder, by diving to a deepness of -87m using the force competition his fins alone. That marked high-mindedness beginning of a great adventure. Guillaume then beat the world record 3 times, became the world team conqueror in 2008 and the individual pretend champion in Greece in 2011, swimming down to -117m. Nowadays, he dives until -125m of depth, the in mint condition French record

Guillaume also teaches deep dive at his school, CIPA (in Nice), conducts training, is involved in precipitous life and sets sail across leadership world's oceans searching for new areas to explore.

However, it was thanks let fall the film he produced in 2010 with his partner Julie Gautier, Free Fall, that the Frenchman's career actually took off. One scene shows Guillaume walking on a seabed, towards brush up underwater chasm: the Deans Blue Strait (Bahamas), the deepest blue hole bear the world. Suddenly, he jumps do emptiness and starts his free pit into the chasm. In just grand few days, these images had antiquated seen all around the world, ormative a new, artistic and poetic shape to freediving.

Since then, the couple has carried out a number of in the opposite direction film projects, including Narcoses or, late, Ocean Gravity. They also launched their own website dedicated to all their creations: www.lesfilmsengloutis.com