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Loading Docs 2019 - Water Baby

2019 8m Web
  • Documentary
  • Adventure

It's fitting that freedive world champion William Trubridge and his freediver/actor partner Sachiko Fukumoto would want their baby to be delivered via a water birth. Boasting beautiful underwater footage of the pair freediving (diving without breathing apparatus), this Loading Docs short film follows the couple's birthing journey. Trubridge is also filmed swimming the Cook Strait underwater, to raise awareness of endangered Kiwi dolphins. In 2016 Trubridge set a world record after freediving 102 metres. Katherine McRae (Shortland Street, Go Girlsdirects.