--- title: Man Goes Underwater in 6-Foot Water Balloon That Bursts description: The Slow Mo Guys made it their mission to film a massive water balloon popping from the inside — with one of them inside of it as well. canonical: https://time.com/5613811/slow-mo-guys-water-balloon/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-06-25T15:56:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:59:19.278Z og:title: Man Goes Underwater in Massive Water Balloon That Bursts Spectacularly og:description: "That looks like a tidal wave!" og:url: https://time.com/5613811/slow-mo-guys-water-balloon/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Man Goes Underwater in Massive Water Balloon That Bursts Spectacularly twitter:description: "That looks like a tidal wave!" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Ambitious Man Goes Underwater in a Massive Water Balloon That Bursts Spectacularly > Sponsored content. 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For this year’s edition of their [annual Giant Balloon June video](https://time.com/3968100/water-balloon-suit-slow-motion/), the YouTube duo known as the Slow Mo Guys made it their mission to film a massive [water balloon](https://time.com/3029563/hero-builds-a-genius-machine-that-can-fill-100-water-balloons-in-a-minute/) popping from the inside — with one of them inside of it as well. The mission: Get Slow Mo Guy Daniel Gruchy inside a six-foot water balloon by giving him a scuba mask attached to a dishwasher waste pipe to breathe and allow his partner, Gavin Free, to insert a waterproof probe lens into the balloon to film Gruchy popping it — in slow motion, of course. After a little breathing apparatus glitch and some less-than-ideal camerawork, the third time was the charm for the pair. Gruchy and Free themselves even seemed to be in awe of the footage they managed to capture. “That looks like a tidal wave!” Gruchy exclaimed after watching the video. “It looks like an actual wave, like you’ve just been filming in a wave.” Watch the full Slow Mo Guys video below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5613811/slow-mo-guys-water-balloon/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5613811/slow-mo-guys-water-balloon/"},"headline":"Ambitious Man Goes Underwater in a Massive Water Balloon That Bursts Spectacularly","datePublished":"2019-06-25T15:56:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:59:19.278Z","description":"\"That looks like a tidal wave!\"","url":"https://time.com/5613811/slow-mo-guys-water-balloon/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","Bizarre"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5613811/slow-mo-guys-water-balloon/","name":"Ambitious Man Goes Underwater in a Massive Water Balloon That Bursts Spectacularly"}}]}] ```