William Trubridge on Freediving blackout, near death diving, and growing up sailing the world!
December 02, 2023 by The Cruising Kiwis | Language: EN Play Time: 00:41:01 | SAILING YOUTUBERS
How to stay alive free diving with William Truebridge | Sailing Life
We love our sailing life. Travel by sailboat exposes us to new cultures, new environments and new perspectives, it encourages us to take on the challenges that pass our way. Risk is second nature to sailors, if we were averse to life challenges then our live aboard sailing catamaran would never have left the shot. However, the trick to handling risk is to learn how to manage it judiciously. Last week we almost lost our eldest son Finn in a free diving accident. We know we must do better. Who greater to learn how to stay alive when free diving than someone who knows the sport inside out and he’s a New Zealander to boot. Rob and Finn were lucky enough to sit down to a zoom call with 7 times world champion and 18 times free diving world record holder William Truebridge.
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Thank you to William Truebridge for taking the time to speak to us and access supplementary footage. If you are interested in learning or improving your free diving check out Williams online course @ https://fitwith.io/williamtrubridge
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In 1997, after rowing at the Atlanta Olympics, Rob rowed a tiny 7m (22 foot) plywood boat 2,500 miles from Tenerife (Canary Islands) to Barbados (Caribbean). It took six weeks for Rob and rowing partner, Phil Stubbs, to complete winning the inaugural Atlantic Rowing Race.
Skip forward to 2014 and, married with three children, Rob and his wife Rachel purchased Javelot, a 43 ft Fountaine Pajot catamaran. Armed only with Rob’s 3 years of racing P class yachts from the age of 11 to 13, and Rachel’s non existent sailing knowledge, We set off to learn the ropes of ocean sailing. We broke stuff, replaced stuff and got to know their boat before heading offshore with the kids, Finn (then 13), Declan (then 11) and Ivan (then 8), in tow. Through trial and error we have become confident wayfarers, kind of.
The plan? To sail around the world.
Part of the journey will be retracing Rob’s eldest brother Kerry’s travels at sea. Using Kerry’s original letters from the 1970’s we hope to retrace his movements from Australia through Indonesia and South East Asia to Cambodia where Kerry’s life was cut short after straying into Cambodian waters in 1978. Kerry and two friends were attacked by a Khmer Rouge gun boat, captured, tortured and executed. www.brothernumberone.co.nz
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