Crazy swedes...

[jome]

So, I'm reading the paper and in the corner of my eye I catch what looks like a familliar face. It's a piece on a documentary that is being shown later that night.

Apparently, some swede was crazy enough to have built a 4-meter sail boat and sail it over the atlantic...Twice! On the last trip, alone, talking with 3 cameras he gathered enough material to put together this nice documentary about it. This I got to see!

Not knowing anything about sailing, I was glued to my seat watching this guy pop out of his boat in the middle of the atlantic for some quick freediving. I have no clue how he managed to film that And just laying his thoughts on camera after having sailed for weeks alone. And the genuine joy of just having a very strange conversation with a cargo ship after weeks of silence.

Anyway, if you happen to get a chance, do your self a favor and watch it. I think it's available on DVD too.

Well done Sebastian...Wow, I had already accumulated some respect for you, but this just puts it through the roof

I really liked the ending where he says something like: "If I had know how much work just building the boat was, I would've never even started. Sometimes I guess I just don't know my limits".

http://www.webvideo.nu/aloneacross/

 

[DeepThought]

Amazing. And some call freediving 'extreme'!!
Sounds like a very powerful experience.
Did I get it right grom the trailer? was he cut from any form of (even emergency) communication in the last half of the trip?

 

[Freediver81]

I had the pleasure of being with him for 10 days in dahab a year ago! He told me that it was an extremely hard trip! He was actually afraid of Sharks while freediving in the Atlantic and was looking for a Shark repellant before he did the trip!
He is one of the Best Swedish Freedivers and he had held a few Swedish records!

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