Holding your breath?

[longers]

This chap held his for quite a while.

I find it incredible that people can do this but wonder how long they would manage if they didn't use pure oxygen beforehand?
Tetedelacourse reckoned he had massive lungs if I remember right.

You don't need to get in the pool to try it but how long can you hold yours?

 

[tyred]

I once managed just over a minute.

 

[ianrauk]

I tried once but gave up because I went bright red

 

[longers]

^ your true colours Ian? Not blue?

 

[ianrauk]

^ Exactly mate, never again

 

[Fnaar]

I'm going to have a go... if I don't log in for some time, can someone phone an ambulance?

 

[ianrauk]

I wouldn't hold your breath... eeer

I'm going to have a go... if I don't log in for some time, can someone phone an ambulance?

 

[trustysteed]

it's a breath-taking record

 

[ColinJ]

This chap held his for quite a while.

I find it incredible that people can do this but wonder how long they would manage if they didn't use pure oxygen beforehand?
Tetedelacourse reckoned he had massive lungs if I remember right.

You don't need to get in the pool to try it but how long can you hold yours?

19+ minutes is incredible!

I haven't tried holding my breath for years and don't fancy doing it now but I remember having competitions with my mates at school when I was about 9 years old. They all used to pack up after about 90 seconds but I used to go for 2 minutes just to show off.

Another show-off trick was in Coventry's 50 metre swimming pool. The same mates bet me that I couldn't dive into the pool from one end and swim underwater to the halfway point to pick up a coin from the bottom. I swam to the far end underwater and back to the midway point to get the coin!

In our physics class we had a water manometer which we used to measure what pressure we could blow to. I blew the water out of it...

So, I suppose that I've always been a bit of a windbag!

 

[Fnaar]

Yes, it's exhale-ent

 

[Wigsie]

I used to idolise Umberto Pelizzari and love watching the freedivers. Out in the open sea is slightly different that inhaling pure oxygen and sitting in a fish tank but its still an awesome accomplishment.

Tanya Streeter is also incredibly, erm talented!

My Personal best is a few seconds shy of 4 minutes and diving down unaided to 55meters! I broke my dive Computer doing it, I think it just presumed I was dead and packed up.

 

[Slowgrind]

My mate just got used to not breathing, and he died!

 

[tyred]

I had another attempt but it was really difficult and I had to take breather.

 

[trustysteed]

it's a sport for airheads

 

[longers]

Tanya Streeter is also incredibly, erm talented!

Yep, she's talented and has had some amazing experiences from the little I've seen.

Is Big Blue partly inspired by Umberto Pelizzari?