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Some of that will be answered tonight, and as we first reported last december, youll learn how an unlikely danish spy named morten storm managed to get inside awlakis world and become one of his most trusted friends. And how, storm says, he helped lead that fatal missile to its target. Anwar alawlaki as you send us your bombs, we will send you ours. Logan by the time of his death, Anwar Alawlaki was at the top of the u. S. Terrorist kill list. The muslim cleric had become notorious for his fiery internet sermons that incited attacks against america. Awlaki jihad against america is binding upon myself, just as it is binding on every other able muslim. Logan awlaki had plotted with the underwear bomber, umar abdulmutallab, and he inspired nidal hasans shooting rampage at fort hood, texas, that left 13 dead. He had become the operational leader of al qaeda in yemen and was in the midst of planning more attacks. Morten storm was one of the few people awlaki trusted. What he didnt know was that storm had become a double agent working for danish intelligence and their partners, the c. I. A. , who wanted awlaki dead. Morten storm at that moment now, anwar needed to die by any means. He needed to be stopped. That was. Logan even though he was your friend . Friend. He was a person i needed to get close to to stop his evil in him. Logan how dangerous do you think he was . Storm very dangerous. Logan the two first met in yemen in 2006 when storm, a muslim convert from denmark, was as radical as awlaki. What did you think of him the first time you met him . Storm very kind person. You know, his character was. How. What do you call it, a joyful character. Logan did you two get on well from the beginning . Storm from the very first minutes. Logan and so you became friends . Storm yes. I liked him because of his views of jihad, because that was my views, as well. Logan storms path to extremism began in prison when he converted to islam at 21, a troubled kid with a violent past who had never found his place in the sleepy danish town where he grew up. What would people have said about you at that time . How would they have described you . Storm my reputation as a young teenager, i. I could punch very hard. I used to knock out a fullgrown man with one punch. So, thats. And i was known for that. Logan he says islam offered forgiveness and comfort in ritual, a refuge for a young man who feared his life was going nowhere. Storm i felt good about it, praying, as if i was cleaned. My sins had left me. Logan it freed you from your past. Storm it did, yeah, and thats what i needed. Logan he moved to yemen, learned arabic, took an arabic name, murad, and a muslim wife, with whom he had three children. By 9 11, he was immersed in radical islam and even named his son after Osama Bin Laden. Why would you do that . Storm because he was born in. Just after 9 11, and Osama Bin Laden was a hero. He was a muslim soldier who stood up against the big satan of america. Logan you know, Many Americans listening to that would be offended . Storm well, im telling the truth. Logan but over the years, storm began to have doubts about his faith. As dramatic as his original conversion was, so was his break with islam. This is how he explains it storm i typed on my keyboard, on my laptop, contradictions in the koran. Thats the first time i ever done that. What i believed in for those ten years suddenly was just ripped away from me. I discovered that it was all fake. I made a decision not to be muslim. Logan you cant go from believing all of this for ten years to instantly not believing any of it, right . Storm you know. You know what . It can happen. That can actually happen. It was a roller coaster, a emotional roller coaster. Logan because you were giving up everything . Storm yes, of course. Logan so you made a decision. You called danish intelligence. Storm i called danish intelligence. Logan without saying why, storm arranged to meet danish agents at a hotel in copenhagen. He was well known to them as a hardcore extremist and theyd been tracking him for years. Storm so they say, oh, well, murad they say because that was my muslim name what would you like to eat . Would you like to have fish or vegetarian food . So i say, no. I say, i want something with bacon, pork, i said, and i want a beer. laughter so. And they were, like, in disbelief looking at each other. I say, i am no longer muslim and i want to fight the terrorists. Logan storm now transformed into a double agent. He says one of the most important targets he was given by the c. I. A. Was his old friend, awlaki, an assignment that took him deep into the yemeni desert to meet the al qaeda leader. Storm two guys came out with a. K. S. I was like bleep , if they know anything about me, im dead now. Logan inside, storm says awlaki was sitting in the midst of some 30 heavily armed mujahedeen, or holy warriors. Storm well, he stood up. He say, asalaam aleykem achi, like, peace be upon you, my brother, he say. And he walked up. He gave me a hug. And i was, like, whew. laughs logan at that meeting, storm told us, awlaki drew him into his small circle of confidantes and gave him the Encryption Keys to his secure communications network, which he showed us. Using couriers, they would now send each other flash drives with encrypted emails, photos and videos. Awlaki asked storm to recruit followers and raise money for him, and he wanted something else. Storm he asked me if i knew any sisters who might be interesting in marrying him. Logan and you, of course, said . Storm yeah. laughter logan storm says the c. I. A. Saw awlakis request for a bride as an opening, a way to get closer to the elusive terrorist. And they eagerly signed on to a plan to find awlaki a new wife. Storm went on facebook, of all places, and tried to connect with awlaki supporters. Storm i had no one except for a woman contacting me, saying, do you know sheik anwar . I said, yeah. And then, that was aminah. Logan aminah, a 32yearold croatian whose real name is irena horak, had recently converted to islam. She wrote to storm that she wanted to marry awlaki. To prove to her that he really knew the al qaeda leader, storm had awlaki send him this video, which he gave to us. Awlaki this recording is done specifically for sister aminah at her request, and the brother who is carrying this recording is a trustworthy brother. Logan when he says, the brother who is carrying this video is a trustworthy brother, thats you . Storm thats me. Logan awlaki, who already had two wives, wanted to see his bridetobe. Awlaki if you could also do a recorded message and send it over, that would be great. Logan storm made two videos of aminah, which have never been broadcast before. Here she is in the first. Aminah brother, its me, aminah. I just taped this just to see. That you can see how i look. Logan and then this, a second, more revealing video of her. Aminah brother, this is me without the head scarf so you can see my hair. I described it to you before. So now you see me without it, and i hope you will be pleased with it. Logan when we looked into aminahs past, we could find nothing to explain why this seemingly ordinary woman, who was once a champion runner and an advocate for the disabled, suddenly abandoned everything she knew and committed her life to a terrorist leader. By june 2010, she was living in yemen, in the arms of her new husband, Anwar Alawlaki. Why was the c. I. A. In favor of you arranging this marriage . Storm she would be a live bait to anwar, without a doubt. Logan storm says the c. I. A. Hoped aminah would lead them right to awlaki, and they rewarded him with a bonus, 250,000. He was so excited, he took this photograph of the briefcase packed with 100 bills. But once aminah got to yemen, storm believes the c. I. A. Lost track of her and awlaki. After hed been missing for months, c. I. A. U. S. Intelligence had no idea where he was . Storm no. Logan and you found him in four weeks . Storm thats correct. Logan awlaki, who still had no idea storm had turned against him, sent a courier to him with a shopping list. It included bombmaking supplies. Storm told us he left some of the harmless items on the list with a middleman and promised to deliver the rest later. He then arranged with awlaki for a pickup by a courier, and reported back to his handlers in denmark. Storm i didnt think any more about that. Logan until . Storm until, well, i read that anwar was killed. And i read how they tracked him down with that was my mission. Logan they tracked him down through a courier . Storm yeah. Logan storm read a newspaper report that quoted unnamed u. S. Intelligence officials as saying they tracked awlaki through a young courier, a description that matched the courier his middleman said had picked up the items he left for awlaki. Is there any doubt in your mind at all that it was your mission. Storm no. Logan . That led to awlakis death . Storm no. There is no doubt. Logan what did you think when you heard that Anwar Al Awlaki was dead . Storm it was a lot of joyment, i say, because its good he died, anyway. It is good. Logan he says his joy turned to anger when he realized the c. I. A. Was not going to give him any credit, or reward money, for helping to kill awlaki. Instead, he learned from his danish spy masters that the c. I. A. Denied it was his intelligence that led to the hit, and claimed they had a parallel operation. Furious, he went to confront his c. I. A. Handler at a Seaside Hotel in denmark. In the hotel lobby, moments before the meeting, storm switched on his phones video recorder and slipped it into his pocket. He gave us that recording, and you can hear storm challenging the man he claims is a c. I. A. Officer, known to him as michael. Storm the americans have failed in every single attempt to arrest or kill anwar awlaki, except when we went in. We just want gratitude from your government logan the american calmly tried to reassure him. Michael this whole thing was a team effort of which you played the highest role, okay . And it is because of that there are a lot of people in my government. Storm obama laughs michael i am talking about the president of the United States, okay . Storm yeah. Michael he knows you. The president of the United States doesnt know who i am, but he knows about your work. Storm yeah. Michael okay . And for that, we are thankful. Logan morten storm wasnt satisfied, and it was after that meeting that he decided to go public, which is why he spoke to us. We asked the c. I. A. And danish intelligence for comment, but they both declined. By the time we met storm at a remote location in the danish countryside, awlakis followers had vowed revenge. So youre going to spend the rest of your life looking over your shoulder . Storm yeah. If i try to hide every day and be scared, they have won. Logan storm is working on a new identity for himself and his family. So what are you going to do . Storm i take one day at a time. Logan is this what your life will be now . Storm its going to be. If its going to be short or long, i dont know. But i dont regret anything. Good job still running in the morning . Yeah. Getting your vegetables every day . When i can. [ bop ] [ male announcer ] couldve had a v8. Two full servings of vegetables for only 50 delicious calories. Two full servings of vegetables license and registration please. Whats this . Uhh, its my Geico Insurance id card, sir. Its digital, uh, pretty cool right . Maybe. You know why i pulled you over today . Because im a pig driving a convertible . Tail lights out. Fix it. 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Spend 10 or more with your mastercard when you dine out and mastercard will donate up to 4 million to stand up to cancer, one precious cent at a time. Pelley ask wall street bankers the net worth of Paul Tudor Jones, and theyll tell you 3. 6 billion. Hes one of those hedge fund managers. But ask a homeless child or a struggling family, and theyll tell you that a spreadsheet is no way to measure a man. Paul tudor jones wonders that if billionaires like him are such geniuses, then why do nearly two Million People live in poverty in new york city alone . In 1988, he started a charity called the robin hood foundation. 25 years later, robin hood has given away more than one and a quarter billion dollars. As we first showed you in april, its become the citys largest private backer of charter schools, job training and food programs. Tudor jones has learned hard lessons; for a latterday robin hood, it turns out giving to the poor is harder than he thought. And as for taking from the rich . Well, he finds its best to distract them. This looks like an arena concert, but its a private party for the superrich. The robin hood foundations annual fund raiser seats 4,000 in manhattans convention center. Seth myers its amazing who is here tonight. Give yourselves a round of applause. applause its like the 1 has its own 1 . laughter pelley they laugh because its true. Billionaires, stars and athletes are here for the 22nd year to lay credit cards at the feet of Paul Tudor Jones. Tudor Jones Brothers and sisters of robin hood, new ideas, different ideas, crazy ideas those are the ones that change the world. And boy, does the world outside these walls need changing. Pelley what do you see when you look around the city . Tudor jones i see people in pain, people in need, people at times without hope, looking for something that will give them some compelling future. I see too many people in homeless shelters, on food stamps. I think a lot of us dont like to focus on it, but its. Its a significant part of this country that needs to be addressed. Pelley there was a time he was focused on himself. Is forty bid and a half . Pelley this is Paul Tudor Jones in the 1980s age 32 in a documentary about wall street. Tell him more behind it. Do it, do it, do it. Theres more behind it tudor jones my mother told me i was going to be a preacher. I always wanted to be a millionaire or a movie director. Pelley so you chose millionaire . Tudor jones i dont know if i chose millionaire. I ultimately got to that point, yes. Pelley that point and far beyond. But his mother had seen something of a preacher and, months after that documentary, tudor jones caught a glimpse of it, too. It was 1986, one sunday night. Reasoner millionaire with heart of gold offers hope to ghetto kids. Pelley Harry Reasoner met gene lang, a millionaire who guaranteed College Tuition for every kid in one harlem class. Reasoner are they good kids . Do you like them . Lang oh, i love them. I look at them now, all of them, as an extension of my family. Tudor jones well, the second that program finished, i picked up the phone. I called gene lang, and i said, i want to do what youre doing. Pelley you know, im curious what it was about that program and about where you were in your life that ignited that spark in that moment . Tudor jones there was probably a hole in my soul, and i didnt really know it at the time. And all of a sudden, here was this man that showed the joy of giving. So, the lesson that i learned was that there was a whole new journey in my life that was ahead of me that i had not yet even realized was there. Pelley so, he adopted a school, too, confident that if he showered it with money, the students would thrive. Tudor jones i was throwing everything in the world i could at it. I was taking them on trips every summer and providing after school services. We put so much time, energy and love into them. Pelley but he failed. After five years, the grades in his school were no better than average. Tudor jones i felt like i had failed a great deal of those kids. But failure, a lot of times, is the fire that forges the steel for success, right . There are going to be stops, there are going to be failures, there are going to be setbacks. But you grow from those and you get better, and it becomes transformative. Pelley turned out a preachers compassion needed a little wall street ruthlessness. So, tudor jones and his friends set up robin hood to invest in poverty programs in the same hardnosed way that they invested in businesses. Their offices are filled with analysts and accountants who help the best ideas develop and measure the results without mercy. Mary alice hannan my relationship with robin hood has evolved over the years like motherdaughter, you know, friend and foe. Pelley sister mary alice hannans soup kitchen in the bronx had lived hand to mouth for almost a decade, and then came robin hood with an offer to invest and expand. Friend and foe . Hannan friend and foe. I mean this in a loving way, but i loved and hated them in 30 seconds. And im sure they felt the same way about me. Pelley love was nice, but robin hood wanted data. Who was being served . How many . What was the cost . Did the data support expansion . And where was the nuns Business Plan . Hannan so, im like, okay. Pelley youre just trying to get through today . Hannan today, right. So, the first thing was a five year strategic plan. And i went, ugh, all right. And it was a long, tedious experience, and it was wonderful. And we came up with all these spectacular goals, and that was really, really good. Yay, yay it was the followup of the goals that became the challenge. Tudor jones we started asking grantees, what are your goals . , and then holding them accountable. And yet, at the same time, providing management expertise and providing administrative help and legal help and help to secure buildings. So, we werent just holding them accountable; we were helping them along the way. I need two on table nine, please. Pelley robin hood invested 5 million in the kitchens expansion goals, and now theyre serving more than twice as many as before. But when programs dont perform, robin hood takes the money back. Tudor jones every year, we probably defund 5 to 10 of our grantees not because the fact that theyre not wonderful, not because of the fact that theyre not trying real hard, but because were not getting the results. Pelley you do that to 5 to 10 of your projects every year . Tudor jones yes, because were always trying to find new things, and, by definition, youre going to fail at times. Its what you have to do to be at the forefront of actually finding a way to kick povertys ass. Pelley recently, robin hoods board of directors met at the soup kitchen. The personal net worth of the board adds up to 25 billion. Robin hood takes all of its expenses from the board members, so 100 of donations are given to the poor, just like its namesake. Tudor jones if you said to me what part of our success is due to our name, id say its a big part of it because its a great name, right . It says everything. Robin hood did it. Pelley is that what happens at that gala we went to . Taking from the rich . You put the arm on them. Tudor jones but many years from now, when you look back on your life and you are at your end, would you trade those fleeting luxuries for one chance, just one chance to return to this night and to give a hundred thousand people a chance to grab their dream . Pelley you were shaking people by their ankles. Tudor jones you cannot have significance in this life if its all about you. You get your significance, you find your joy in life through service and sacrifice. Its pure and simple. Pelley big Charity Galas often bring in 3 million or 5 million; tudor jones took in more than 57 million this night. The money goes to about 500 projects. Robin hood spent 130 million last year, with a heavy emphasis on schools. You are graduating your first class. Jabali sawicki hallelujah. Good morning, sir. Pelley Jabali Sawicki is headmaster of what was a crack house, an old school in brooklyn that had been abandoned as the neighborhood collapsed. Sawicki its dilapidated. Its falling down. People walk by, and they graffiti on it. Thats exactly how people viewed africanamerican boys at the time. Pelley sawicki was hired by tudor jones. I hope that you. Pelley and they opened the excellence boys charter school, grades k through 8. Tudor jones believes that his experiment with that middle school in the 1980s failed because he caught the kids too late. Tudor jones the only way to break the cycle of poverty statistically is higher levels of education attract higher levels of income. The only way to beat poverty in america is to completely, totally transform our Public Education system. Its the only way. One school, one nation. Pelley now, robin hood is supporting younger kids in 80 schools. It spent 35 million turning the crack house into a crack program. They call the students here scholars. The day is long, and they dont waste a minute. The square root of 49. Pelley not even when theyre passing from one class to the next. I multiply by five. I divide by two. Whats my answer . Omari. 250. 250. Correct. Daniels. Pelley new york Citys Department of education tells us the excellence boys school is significantly better than average in math and science, and slightly better in english. Oh, what evil. Pelley the boys have reached the citys top 20 even though some of them start the day in homeless shelters and others in troubled homes. There was a shooting near the school recently. How did the boys handle that . Sawicki a tragic event. The father of one of our scholars was murdered one block away. And to make matters even worse, two of our other scholars in the school witnessed the entire thing. Pelley what did you tell the boys . Sawicki that in 15 to 20 years, theyre going to be the men that are out on the street, navigating that world. Excellence symbolizes the greatest mechanism for us to create a world where no one ever has to see their father buried, or no one ever has to walk up to the casket, look into that fathers closed eyes and ask, mommy, is he sleeping . And we told them, thats why we do this. Please welcome mr. Paul tudor jones. cheers and applause pelley this is the graduation of the first class to go from kindergarten through the eighth grade. Tudor jones i want to congratulate you. Pelley some of them are headed to top prep schools. When youre standing up there, looking across all those faces, what are you going to see . Tudor jones im going to see, first and foremost, men of character. Pelley after that failure with the older kids, tudor jones is focused now on the starting line. Tudor jones today, were going to blow this. The race starts after you leave this room today. Are you guys ready . Yes. Tudor jones i cant hear you. Are you guys ready . Yes tudor jones ready, set. blows whistle cheers and applause oh, nice to meet you. Thank you so much for everything. Tudor jones youve got to be so proud. I am proud. Tudor jones man, you got it. Pelley after 25 years of robin hood. Tudor jones yall are fantastic pelley . Countless lives have been changed, but the citys poverty rate doesnt; its about 20 year in and year out. If robin hood is a hedge fund for humanity, then a wall street trader would say that tudor jones is buying on the futures market, a bet that investing in Young Children and families will pay big dividends in the next generation. Tudor jones i dont think theres ever actually a point where you can say i won. Its a constant battle. I could see myself. I could see myself with the coffin lid dropping and me, still knocking on the top of it, trying to get out because i think therell still be a war to fight. Pelley and more to do. Tudor jones and more to do. Pelley robin hood held this years gala after our story first aired. The take this year . Almost 81 million. Welcome to the cbs sports update presented by pacific life, final round of the womens the championship, reid takes her first pga title, the first winner to the tour. And in the southern open, nidal wins in straight sets a week before the u. S. Open which you can see right here on cbs. 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It was how the ancient greeks went down for sponges. Without so much as a snorkel, theyd dive to around 100 feet. Todays free divers go down a lot further for fun and sport. They want to join the sea World Without disturbing it no tanks, no bubbles, no noise. Yes, that is a shark, but it seems friendly enough. The diver, new zealander William Trubridge, has become just another guy in the neighborhood. Ten seconds. Simon trubridge is also a World Champion in the competitive sport of free diving. Three, two, one. Simon here he is getting ready to dive 331 feet, twice the height of the statue of liberty on a single breath. Five, six, seven. Simon hell be doing this just with his arms and legs; no fins to help him. This film, with the music, was produced by his team. Going down is the easy part. After 70 feet, he loses buoyancy and gets pulled down by gravity alone. Simon he reaches his target, collects a tag to prove he got there, and goes into reverse for the hard part, getting back up. His body is craving oxygen, but he goes up slowly and gracefully, as if he were doing a water ballet. He was underwater four minutes and ten seconds. Nose clip. Look at the judges. Simon a new world record, 331 feet. Thats 101 meters. Five years ago, the record was 80 meters. applause five years ago, did anyone think it was possible to go down 100 meters . William trubridge when the record was 80 . I dont think so. I dont think anyone realistically thought it was going to happen, or at least not soon. Simon isnt there a certain limit of underwater thats just. You cant go beyond it without dying . Trubridge definitely, its. Its out there, but theres no way of kind of knowing exactly where it is. Its just deeper than we are now, we know that much. Simon and because of free diving, scientists now know that humans are closer to dolphins than had been thought. Just like dolphins, when we go into cold water, a reflex kicks in which slows down our pulse, shifts blood from our extremities to our heart and to our brain. Our spleen contracts, releasing oxygenrich blood into our arteries. Is under the water a place humans belong . Free divers think so. They point out that the amniotic fluid in the womb where a fetus lives for nine months is very similar to seawater; that if a newborn is immediately submerged in a pool, it will swim the breast stroke and be able to hold its breath for 40 seconds. It will retain this ability until it learns how to walk. Then, its all over. Tanya streeter were physiologically designed to hold our breath underwater. Were not designed to breathe underwater. Simon during her career as a free diver, tanya streeter held ten world records. She had gone down deeper than any man. The key to her success, she says, is her ability to equalize the pressure underwater so her eardrums dont burst. Streeter as you dive, the. The pressure of the weight of water around you increases. And it pushes your eardrums in and in and in, and you have to push air into the eustachian tubes to be able to pop the eardrums out to equalize that pressure. I mean, it. It hurts. Ive described it as an elephant sitting on my chest, stabbing hot pokers in my eardrums. Simon nobody would choose to do that. Streeter no. But, you know, you sort of find yourself there on. At that point on your journey, and realize that thats what you signed up for. So, it. Its all par for the course. Simon tanya and other free divers go to the remotest part of the bahamas, called long island, which is the mecca of free diving. Christopher columbus put long island on the map in 1492, but youll have trouble finding it on any tourist map today. The jet set doesnt come here because jet planes dont fly here from america or europe. There are hardly any hotels, no golf courses, no frozen margaritas. Right off the beach, there is a massive limestone cavern called deans blue hole. It is 663 feet deep, and it is dangerous. A few days after we left, a teenager dove into the blue hole and didnt come up. His body was never found. This is where William Trubridge lives and trains. For the last six months, hes led a monastic existence, getting ready to try for another world record. He wants to make it down to 410 feet on one breath, this time using a single fin. To get ready, he goes through a unique a set of exercises that he designed himself to make his body more flexible and supple, more like a dolphin. His waist here is 27 inches. Then, the countdown. His wife brittany is on the platform. His parents are on the shore. The judges and safety divers are in the water; their job to save him if he loses consciousness. In any other sport, a spurt of adrenaline would be a good thing. Not here. Tension, anxiety consume oxygen; what you need is serenity. He begins to swallow air. He is literally swallowing air, packing his lungs with more air than they could receive from breathing alone. Free divers discovered this technique themselves to expand their lungs. And in his head . Trubridge sometimes, if im taking my last breath, a voice will pop into my mind saying, this is. Could be your last breath of your life, or, youre going to die. Its kind of like the devils advocate sitting on your shoulder whos going to think of the worst possible thing and voice that in your mind. Simon the devil is still talking to you . Trubridge always. Yeah. Simon his lungs are now the size of watermelons. As he descends, they will be squeezed until theyre no larger than oranges. His heartbeat slows down to 27 beats a minute. His mother is counting seconds. Down deep, the blue hole becomes the black hole. Trubridge youre alone with yourself down there at depth. Even your body slips away so that it feels like youre just a kind of a speck of consciousness thats floating into the abyss. Youre weightless, theres no light, no sound, and so its almost as if youre floating in a completely empty tank. Simon the pressure is causing his brain to absorb more nitrogen. He is feeling lightheaded, kind of drunk. It happens to all divers deep down; its called narcosis. Suddenly, a bright light on the base plate 410 feet down. He takes the tag and begins his ascent. At 100 feet, he is joined by his safety divers. Like a pod of dolphins, they guide him through the most hazardous part of the dive. Running out of oxygen can cause a blackout. Trubridge grunting simon the sound you are hearing is william expelling air from his sinuses. Trubridge grunting simon hes made it. But for his record of 410 feet to be ratified by the judges, he needs to perform three simple tasks when he gets to the surface take his goggles off, give the okay sign with his fingers, and say im okay, in that precise order. Sounds simple, but williams brain isnt working. He does these things in the wrong order. The judges disqualify him. Linden wolbert he took off the nose clip, made the sign, and said im okay without removing his goggles. Simon boy, oh, boy. He had just been down a quarter of a kilometer. Wolbert thats correct. Simon he did goggles in the wrong order and it cost him his record. Wolbert it did. Simon it sounds like a technicality, but he has to prove that his mind is as tough as his body. You got there. You got. You got deeper than anyone has ever gotten before. Trubridge yeah. Yeah. Simon and then, you took your mask off and said okay in the wrong order, and it was all for nothing. Trubridge yeah. Simon and youre smiling. Trubridge i feel good because i. I know i can. I can do it again maybe it might not be for a while, but i can definitely do that depth. Simon but you did feel narcosis . Trubridge yeah. Simon tanya streeter had a close call with severe narcosis ten years ago. She was doing whats called no limits diving, going down in a weighted device, which moves fast and goes down deeper than most world war iiera submarines. This is tanya at 525 feet, deeper than anyone had ever gone. She blew a kiss to the ocean. But then she became disoriented. It took her 17 agonizing seconds to remember she had to pull a pin. Any longer and she might have stayed down there forever. But with experiences like this, why go down at all . Streeter its just a little bit difficult for people to fathom, if you excuse the pun, but its. Its what i love to do. You know, its. Its a common phrase in free diving we dont dive to look around us, we dive to look within ourselves. Its a journey of self exploration. Simon what can you possibly be exploring in your own mind when your ears hurt and youre out of breath and its dark and, you know, its dangerous . Streeter i want to know what ive got. I want to know what im made of. Simon when we watched this, we thought about other sports running, climbing, boxing, swimming. Theyve all been essential for the survival of the human race. But descending into blackness where theres no air . Yet, free diving is becoming more popular every year. Go to 60minutesovertime. Com to explore the mysterious blue hole through the eyes of our team. Sponsored by pfizer. Ple physic. A body at rest tends to stay at rest. While a body in motion tends to stay in motion. Staying active can actually ease arthritis symptoms. But if you have arthritis, staying active can be difficult. Prescription celebrex can help relieve arthritis pain so your body can stay in motion. Because just one 200mg celebrex a day can provide 24 hour relief for many with arthritis pain and inflammation. Plus, in clinical studies, celebrex is proven to improve daily physical function so moving is easier. Celebrex can be taken with or without food. And its not a narcotic. 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