Subaquatic Messenger (二木 あい・水族表現家)


2014.Apr.14 TEDxFukuoka【Free Diving – Beautiful Connection with the Earth】

2014.Apr.14 TEDxFukuoka【Free Diving – Beautiful Connection with the Earth】

In 2011, Ai Futaki became the first human to earn two Guinness World Records for the longest distance dive in a cave with one single breath [with fins and without fins]. She studied film, documentaries, and Spanish in California and Cuba, started underwater life as a scuba-diver, and then finally met free-diving which dives underwater with One single breath. She is one and the only person in the world who shares the beauty of connecting with the nature by free-diving. She is the bridge between the water world and the human world as an underwater harmonist (underwater performance, modelling, and filming), and as a symbol of the water.



2014. キョーリン製薬グループ 企業理念TVCM【二木あい】篇 / KYORIN Pharmaceutical Facilities Co., Ltd. corporate philosophy TVCM

2014. キョーリン製薬グループ 企業理念TVCM【二木あい】篇 / KYORIN Pharmaceutical Facilities Co., Ltd. corporate philosophy TVCM

水中表現家の二木あいさんは、「洞窟で一番長い距離を一息で行く」ギネス世界記録の保­持者です。身体と精神の調和した二木さんが水中を舞う姿で、健康のすばらしさ、挑戦す­る企業姿勢を表現しました。

この撮影は、ミクロネシア連邦に属するヤップ島で行われました。精神を研ぎ澄まし、マ­ンタやバラクーダと戯れ、水中で舞う彼女の姿にご注目ください!



2012.Oct.23 TED x Tokyo【The Water Connection】

2012.Oct.23 TED x Tokyo【The Water Connection】

Imagine running ninety meters on a single breath. Daunting but conceivable, right? But . . . underwater? You’d have to be a fish, a mermaid or Ai Futaki, who earned a Guinness World Record for that singular feat in 2011 sans fins, by the way and a second for swimming a hundred meters in a cave on one inhalation. Ai’s love affair with water began when she was three. After journeying to California and Cuba to study film, documentaries and Spanish, she worked the world’s oceans for four years as a scuba-diving videographer and cave dive guide. Then she discovered apnea freediving on a lungful of air. Now, as one of very few humans specializing in freediving underwater performance arts, modeling and filming, Ai lives to convey the splendors of the sea to us. Her films are featured on TV and at events and aquarium expositions, and her image regularly graces the pages of magazines and books, including photographer Aaron Wong’s stunning WATER.COLORS and Blue Within.

http://www.tedxtokyo.com/en/talk/ai-futaki/



2011.Jan.7 Guinness World Record 【The Longest Distance in Cave with only one Breath】

2011.Jan.7 Guinness World Record 【The Longest Distance in Cave with only one Breath】

Ai Futaki attempted Guiness World Record for “The Longest Distance in Cave with only ONE Breath”. With Fins for 100m – the first women in the world, and without fins for 90m – the first HUMAN in the world who did it. Enjoy the video!