The Deepest Diver in the History of Free Diving Goes Below the Ice

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I remember a great movie Le Grand Bleu/The Big Blue about free diving years back.

Dad was a scuba diver for years and I had done some (non-certified, of course).

Free diving had held some interest until I saw the movie.

In high school a classmate was on the swim team and swimming for me was keeping alive in the water.

It was years before I ever thought of water as my friend.

But back in school we started having contests to hold our breath.

I'd have thought as a competitive swimmer he could hold his breath quite long, but no.

Any way, i, History class we built up to 3.5min and were pretty happy with that.

Then we started holding our breath while out and about.

If we had gone back to in-class competiton, we might have found our times had increased.

But I doubt it was even near five minutes.

To this day, I'm happy that I learned something in History class.

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N-OS X-tasy! wrote:
When I was thirteen or so, having been inspired by the Guinness Book of World Records, I once held my breath for five minutes. ...

I did the same, I think 3 min and then I had to breathe

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tuqqer wrote:
[quote=N-OS X-tasy!]
When I was thirteen or so, having been inspired by the Guinness Book of World Records, I once held my breath for five minutes.

That is quite simply amazing, N-OS. Damn. Well done.
Thank you, sir, but that's chump change compared to the current world record of 24 minutes 3 seconds: https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/wor...ily-(male)

I don't remember what the world record was when I did this - I think somewhere around 15 minutes, maybe.