Record for Holding Breathe - Writers Forum

Charlie_Eleanor · 08-13-2007, 12:27 PM

Does anyone know the record for someone Holding their Breathe under water?

Thanks

wmd · 08-13-2007, 07:34 PM

believe it or not I went to the guiness world records site and searched for holding breath and it came back with no results....

I am sure google would work though.

lin · 08-13-2007, 08:27 PM

Believe it REALLY or not, five hours a go I saw a U-Toob segment of a guy breaking the record. His own 14 minute 25 second record. New record is over 15 minutes.

It's a rare person who can hold their breath of 2 minutes.

That might startle people, but as a free diver I am used to bizarro numbers like that for lung stats. For instance the record for how deep a person can go and return on one breath is over 400 feet.

The hilarious thing about the clip is that the record was broken on the Regis Philbus show or whatever that stiff's name is. A guy sitting in a tank of water without moving for fifteen minutes. And her's old Philbert yakking up how exciting it is.

Mike C · 08-14-2007, 03:12 AM

Phenomenal. Particularly when you consider that the brain becomes damaged when deprived of oxygen for more than 4 minutes. To achieve what this guy did you have to hyperventilate oxygen to supersaturate your blood.

Rather him than me.

ruksak · 08-14-2007, 07:55 AM

I wasn't aware it was as many as 14/15 minutes. I saw that David Blaine tried to break the record recently and there the existing record was stated as 8mins 58seconds. Here's a link:

David Blaine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

lin · 08-14-2007, 12:06 PM

I remember when the record was around 8 minutes. Some Frenchman held the "static record" as it's called, and also the record for swimming the longest distance underwater on one breath, around 450 feet.

Thing is Mike, your brain isn't deprived of oxygen. There is oxygen in your blood. And more in your lungs. Just a limited supply.

The really freaky shit happens in the depth competitions. A hundred meters underwater is not fun for human life. Just one of the problems is that pressure starts forcing blood backward through the alvioli, causing your lungs to start flooding with blood.

And all the time, you don't really know if you are going to make it back up to the air in time. You make the decision at the bottom, and are guessing about being able to get back to the top.