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Commentary Tom Cruises Talks About Freediving Training With Kirk Krack For Mission Impossible

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Everyone has been talking about the scene in the latest Mission Impossible movie where Tom Cruise has to hold his breath during an underwater scene and has been widely reported he needed to spend over six minutes underwater. Now, in an exclusive interview with Access Hollywood, Cruise talks about his Freediving and Breath-hold training with

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In piece Tom is shown to show a 6 minute breath-hold, after breathing into a regulator, which I suspect was providing O2 enriched air, or pure O2. Then a 6 minute static is not very impressive.

But nice to see Kirk and freediving is getting a nice exposure.
 
I think that by the way Tom presents this that he would have you believe that he was actively swimming underwater and shooting footage for 6 minutes at a time.
 
For Pete's sake guys, this is Hollywood. The land of make believe. I think it's amazing and very professional that an actor at this level does stunts. Nice to see PFI get some credit and free diving some exposure, too.
 
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