It took Michael Board 250 freedives to get enough footage for Novo Amor’s stunning underwater music video.

The famous freediver held his breath for up to three minutes for each shot as he performed multiple takes while swimming with sea turtles, snakes, eels, giant manta rays and a colourful array of fish.

The video for ‘Birthplace’, which was filmed by directing duo Sil van der Woerd and Jorik Dozy, is released today and aims to highlight the growing problem of plastic in the ocean.

Van der Woerd blasted the issue as a “rapidly growing tumour” and revealed the pair approached Novo Amor, otherwise known as Ali Lacey, with the idea for the video when they first heard ‘Birthplace’.