![]() ![]() ![]() Zecchini fell in love with the sport as a precocious child who was barred from competing until she turned 18 - much to her dismay - and was a formidable international contender by her early 20s. In the sport, athletes descend hundreds of feet below the surface of the ocean using a single breath, no oxygen tanks and little equipment other than a rope. Using a trove of archival video, photos and audio recordings, “The Deepest Breath” follows Keenan and Zecchini on separate journeys to the top of the freediving world. What started as a trip down the YouTube rabbit hole became a six-year filmmaking journey resulting in “ The Deepest Breath,” a gripping documentary, now streaming on Netflix, that tells a tale of underwater tragedy and arrives as the implosion of the Titan submersible remains fresh in the public memory. “I’d try to hold my breath and then I’d gasp.” In 2017, Laura McGann read a story in the Irish Times about a fatal accident involving Alessia Zecchini, a preternaturally gifted freediver from Italy, and Stephen Keenan, a well regarded safety diver, at the Blue Hole near Dahab, Egypt - a notoriously dangerous submarine sinkhole nicknamed the “divers’ cemetery.”Įven though the Irish filmmaker didn’t know a thing about freediving - “At one point I googled ‘What is freediving,’” she said - she was immediately intrigued by the “incredible images of people behaving more like seals or dolphins, just holding their breath underwater, swimming endlessly.” She couldn’t resist trying it herself, but quickly discovered her lung capacity was less impressive. ![]() This story contains spoilers from the documentary “The Deepest Breath.” ![]()
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