Amidst the Search for Titan, OceanGate’s Lost Submarine, Netflix Honors Champion Free Diver With Dedicated Documentary

Titan, OceanGate’s submersible vehicle, has been all over the news currently for its mysterious nature of disappearance. The five-person crew that boarded the vehicle, made of carbon fiber and titanium, set out to explore the debris from the Titanic. However, they lost contact with any support ship soon after their launch. While such an unfortunate deep-water diving incident occurred recently, the timing couldn’t have been more coincidental for Netflix to drop the trailer of its new adventure-documentary film. That too is about deep-diving, but this time about one person’s daring adventures.

The Deepest Breath is Netflix’s latest documentary feature, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival a few months back. However, the streaming giant has recently released a trailer for the same. It’s breathtaking, exciting, daring, and frightening at the same time, and while some have loved the timing of it alongside the search for Titan, others found it insensitive.

How Netflix’s new show puts free diving at the pinnacle of extreme sports

The Deepest Breath is the story of Italian freediver Alessia Zecchini, and how she conquered her fears to create a world record for the deepest dive ever. She couldn’t have done it without the help of her safety driver, Stefan Keenan. The trailer starts with the line itself, “Free diving is one of the world’s deadliest extreme sports”, before explaining the fundamentals of the competition.

“It’s very simple. The deepest dive wins”. The visuals shown and the context provided in the first few seconds of the trailer were already enough to take everyone’s breath away. At one point, it was even said that the length of the diving route underneath is equivalent to a “70-story skyscraper”.

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The show is definitely not for the faint-hearted, and the real adventures were for people who lived on the precipice of life and death. Alessia Zecchini happens to be one such individual.

Alessia Zecchini was born to achieve great heights, or in this case, depths.

Free diving since the age of 13, Zecchini has won 16 gold medals, 5 silver medals, and 2 bronze medals at the World Championships so far. However, at age 31, she is far from over. Zecchini achieved a new high in her life in 2019 when she became the first woman to reach a depth of -100 meters or more. Zecchini went -113 meters in Roatan, Honduras, and it’s something as remarkable as any other pioneering moment in women’s achievements.

The trailer repeatedly pounds on the point that “Free diving is an extreme sport”. It also added, “Extreme sports have extreme consequences”. On one hand, a submarine gets lost deep underwater, and around the same time, another story about a human diving more than 100 meters underwater and surviving, comes forth via Netflix. While it was simply an unrelated coincidence, the odds of nature, especially in the deepest of the abyss, are truly remarkable to fathom.

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