How long can you hold your breath for?
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slightlyhuman
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last time i REALLY tried and timed it was about a minute 7 seconds, but i was in elementary school though
dainthomas
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- Dec 7, 2004
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most people can't hold their breath for more than 2 minutes or so with out special training. normally 4 minutes without oxygen is enough to cause brain damage.
If I hyperventilate before hand I can do about 2 and a half minutes.
If I hyperventilate before hand I can do about 2 and a half minutes.
just saw the movie, and yea that was BS, especially when they go down about 50-75 feet
ya know you are able to hold your breath less and less the farther down you go
JeepinEd
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Actually, trained free divers can hold their breath for well over 5 minutes.
Free-divers use fins that are twice as long as normal scuba fins. This allows them to use very little energy while swimming.
My best time was 3 minutes 40 seconds.
The last time I timed myself (1 year ago) I only managed 2 minutes 55 seconds.
Ed
redgtxdi
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There are 2 people I met in my life w/ significant stories about this..........
The first I experienced.......the other I wasn't there for.
First was a friend of my mother's. She rented this house w/ a guest house behind it that had a huuuuuge pool in between. We would play "Marco Polo" and the guy who lived in the guest house was just FREAKISH!!! I swear he'd hold his breath for 3 minutes or so. It was scary to say the least. I tried to go to the bottom and "hide out" w/ him once. I lasted about a 1.5 minutes and came up. He was still down there AT LEAST another minute.
Second was a buddy of mine who went to be an "Army Ranger"!!! Well, after rigorous training anyway, he also had to completely a dive test which was something like......(forgive me)........100ft (???) I can't remember exactly.
Anyway...........he burst both of his ear drums. He never completed the test and did not become a Ranger. Nothing wrong w/ holding his breath. He could hold it for 2:30 consistently........(also scary to me).
Heck, anybody remember the smoker on "Fear FActor" who made it thru the water-tube stunt at something like 2:3x ????. That was pretty sick, too!!
The first I experienced.......the other I wasn't there for.
First was a friend of my mother's. She rented this house w/ a guest house behind it that had a huuuuuge pool in between. We would play "Marco Polo" and the guy who lived in the guest house was just FREAKISH!!! I swear he'd hold his breath for 3 minutes or so. It was scary to say the least. I tried to go to the bottom and "hide out" w/ him once. I lasted about a 1.5 minutes and came up. He was still down there AT LEAST another minute.
Second was a buddy of mine who went to be an "Army Ranger"!!! Well, after rigorous training anyway, he also had to completely a dive test which was something like......(forgive me)........100ft (???) I can't remember exactly.
Anyway...........he burst both of his ear drums. He never completed the test and did not become a Ranger. Nothing wrong w/ holding his breath. He could hold it for 2:30 consistently........(also scary to me).
Heck, anybody remember the smoker on "Fear FActor" who made it thru the water-tube stunt at something like 2:3x ????. That was pretty sick, too!!
why would i want to hold my breath?
when eating, "pie"?perhaps??
I avoid going underwater,
I am not a fish, nor a "squid".
when eating, "pie"?perhaps??
I avoid going underwater,
I am not a fish, nor a "squid".
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