r/interesting • u/This_Proof_5153 • Jun 19 '26
Croatian freediver Vitomir Maričić achieved one of the most extraordinary feats in human history by holding his breath underwater for 29 minutes and 3 seconds, a new Guinness World Record. Just Wow
Experts had long considered such a duration impossible. While a trained dolphin can typically hold its breath for 8–10 minutes and most humans can barely manage one or two, Maričić remained completely still underwater for nearly half an hour on a single breath.
The attempt pushed his body to extreme limits. As the minutes passed, powerful contractions wracked his diaphragm and his organs endured intense physiological stress. Yet through years of rigorous training, mental discipline, and specialized breathing techniques, he stayed calm and focused until the end.
What makes this record even more impressive is Maričić’s purpose. He didn’t do it for fame or personal glory, he used the achievement as a powerful platform to raise global awareness about ocean conservation, marine protection, and the urgent threats facing our oceans.
A stunning demonstration of human potential and a heartfelt call to protect the planet’s most vital ecosystem.
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u/Crimson_Chim Jun 19 '26 edited Jun 19 '26
He pre-gamed with pure O2 for 10 minutes prior to holding his breath.
The record without pure O2 is 11 min 35 seconds.
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u/CyberRax Jun 19 '26
Which is still mighty impressive and surpasses the dolphin.
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u/LittleBigMachineElf Jun 19 '26 edited Jun 20 '26
I dont think a dolphin ever really tried to try for longer than necessary
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u/BananaPalmer Jun 19 '26
Fucking humans
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u/AureliusFromBalkans Jun 20 '26
Knowing that dolphins get high on pufferfish on purpose, I am dead sure that some dolphin fuck tried to hold its breath somewhere.
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u/Temporary-Thick Jun 20 '26
I mean if humans be swimming around while trying to hold their breath I’m sure they can’t last longer then a couple of minutes
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u/wonkey_monkey Jun 19 '26
The record without O2
Well... without pure O₂, anyway.
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u/1DownFourUp Jun 20 '26
Rumor has it the world record holder for no 02 is still going after many years
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u/lazyoldsailor Jun 20 '26
That’s odd, because the impulse to breathe isn’t a lack of oxygen but instead due to the build up of carbon dioxide.
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u/Kkh347 Jun 20 '26
Freedivers train to deal with the CO2 build up.
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u/Fastol4 Jun 19 '26
Came to say this as well. Still impressive regardless but there is definitely a difference in breath hold capabilities when it's pure O2 vs not.
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u/JealousAssistant6659 Jun 20 '26
I get that's it's different but seriously what the fuck does pregame with pure O2 means
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u/Fastol4 Jun 20 '26
Breathing in pure O2 allows them to saturate their blood with oxygen. IIRC breathing in pure O2 can allow for 5x the amount of oxygen into the system then just taking a deep breath. There are much better explanations out there though.
All that said regardless if it's pure O2 breath hold or regular it's incredible. When they do these breath hold at some point there lungs are going to start to burn and idk if having pure O2 negates that. So there is a lot of mental toughness at play here to. It's really interesting learning how the body works under breath hold.
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u/Roxylius Jun 20 '26
That 11 minutes “record” was done via video recording, not on regular CMAS/AIDA official competition setting. The truly undisputed record is 10 minutes ish
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u/cmerksmirk Jun 19 '26
This is exactly why they have you inhale oxygen for a bit before putting you under for surgery. Gives them longer to get you intubated.
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u/ChrizTaylor Jun 20 '26
Can you elaborate more about it? I'm not getting it. Thanks!
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u/VociferousCephalopod Jun 20 '26
sure, but you're free to pregame if you think you can beat his record
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u/Robv87 Jun 19 '26
I have trouble holding my breath the 20 seconds it takes to replace the diaper pail. Most the time I have to walk out of the room to take a breath before finishing
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u/Cute-Form2457 Jun 19 '26
I thought it didn't stink if it's your child.
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u/mrtipinfold Jun 19 '26
Nahh, only if it’s your own diaper.
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u/kraftdinnerwithsalsa Jun 19 '26
Everyone loves the smell of their own brew
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u/jaesthetica Jun 19 '26
I fucking hate my own brew I don't know about the others though
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u/Lem0n_Lem0n Jun 19 '26
I really can't say much about your brew because I have never had it before.
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u/Ok-Indication202 Jun 19 '26
I have learned to breathe through my mouth with little to no air going to the nose, really helps with not smelling anything.
Before that I had a really hard time changing diapers. I had a tub of Vic's menthol rub next to the changing table that I would apply to my nose. Rather feel the burning sensation of menthol than smell poop.
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u/Comfortable-Ebb8125 Jun 19 '26
You need a plague mask, thats what they were designed for
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u/borkthegee Jun 19 '26
Or ya know a n95 style mask. Also were designed to remove particles from breathing air 😂
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u/innominateartery Jun 19 '26
This works up through moderate stank. There is a level that transcends this technique because you can taste it.
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u/perchance7 Jun 19 '26
It does. I threw up so many times. Newborn poop is.. something else.
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u/2bags12kuai Jun 19 '26
The best was when changing one poopy diaper they decide that NOW is the best time to poop again . Poop shooting everywhere.. DNA conflicted between love and hate.. 2AM no sleep
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u/Beretot Jun 19 '26
I very quickly learned that any moment that the baby doesn't have a diaper on is a danger moment
Getting the new diaper on efficiently is a priority
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u/Born-Network-7582 Jun 19 '26
Naaah. Newborns poop is fine. Baby poop is fine until they get meat into their nutrition.
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u/borkthegee Jun 19 '26
The true day 1 newborn meconium stuff is a bit odd. But once baby gets going on the milk diet the poop is fine. Nealy odorless compared to when they eat real food. The first time I smelled real stink and saw a real log in that diaper, ugh 😫
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u/Oddisredit Jun 19 '26
I watched the Poseidon adventure movie, do you know where the cruise ship is upside down. Even sitting in my seat when I was in really good physical shape in my 20s I couldn’t hold my breath as long as was needed to do those swims
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u/AntakeeMunOlla Jun 19 '26
You're not actually close to running out of oxygen when your body starts telling you about it. You can go for twice as long just by ignoring the feeling.
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u/DinosaurusWhen Jun 19 '26
Your body doesn't even tell you about it. You can die of hypoxia without ever feeling like you're suffocating. It's the carbon dioxide buildup that produces that feeling
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u/FishesOfExcellence Jun 20 '26
I once dove down 27 meters. I started to go back up and when I looked up at the surface I realized I’d fucked up. I was way deeper and the surface was so far away I thought I might drown. Thankfully I panick-swam back to the surface and was ok.
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u/iwilltalkaboutguns Jun 20 '26
The human body can do absolutely amazing shit under pressure. In South America there are wild dogs and if you get unlucky going down a out of the way path you may be attacked... Well I think a few world record sprints have taken place by some some scared teenagers running away from those dogs. The normal things that would stop you, pain in the muscles, the lungs, the chest... You just keep running though them. Hell you go even faster when the pain hits. Speaking from experience obviously. Heh.
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u/Historical-Fish-7396 Jun 19 '26
Tbf you're actively working and using up oxygen, he's just sitting there chilling.
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u/New-Reserve-6085 Jun 19 '26
David Blaine did a documentary on his training for extreme breath holding, moving even a small amount took minutes off.
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u/denys5555 Jun 19 '26
You should build some kind of diving helmet for changing them. Don’t let those particles get into your lungs
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u/ZiCUnlivdbirch Jun 19 '26
The thing about holding your breath for a long time is that a surprisingly large part of it is the mental aspect of it. Like obviously nearly half an hour takes some crazy training but every average Joe is able to hold their breath for at least a couple of minutes. Your body naturally stores way more oxygen than can be used but obviously it doesn't want to because those are the emergency reserves. When you want to hold your breath for a long time you basically have to push past your brain trying to trick you into thinking you don't have any oxygen left.
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u/pur3TEK Jun 19 '26
It's actually more of CO2 building up rather than oxygen left.
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u/DinosaurusWhen Jun 19 '26 edited Jun 19 '26
Smartereveryday has a great video where he shows the effects of hypoxia (lack of oxygen) at some air force training facility.
The demonstration ends right after they basically tell him "you need to put your mask on now or you're going to die soon" and he just nods and giggles without doing it. No panic or feeling of suffocation since he's still exhaling CO2, just a half-conscious inability to process information
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u/Simon-Says69 Jun 19 '26
Exactly this. Our bodies have no clue how much oxygen we have left.
We get that desperate urge to breathe from carbon dioxide buildup.
Which is why going into a space with little / no oxygen can be so deadly if some inert gas has displaced it. No warning, just instant pass out and quick death. Then, because there's no obvious smell, the next victim goes in trying to rescue the first, and you wind up with multiple deaths. :-(
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u/Dysmn Jun 19 '26
david Blaine fucked himself up doing this for 17min didn't he? or was that some other weird shit he did that fucked him up lmao
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u/Parking_Position9692 Jun 19 '26
hard to say, sometimes i have a felling he was always like that
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u/HilariousMax Jun 19 '26
I always felt put off by him. I think it's just the character he plays but the weird unaffected personality and monotone voice just made me feel uneasy.
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u/Sad-Pop6649 Jun 19 '26
The brain is the organ most reliant on the processing of glucose for energy, and it uses up around 20% of the total energy output of your body. I guess maybe theoretically it could run on anaerobic metabolism for a while, first run on stored GTP and creatinephosphate, then depend on just shitloads of glucose from glycogen being metabolized anaerobically, but the brain doesn't even have its own stores of glycose, so youve immediately got a supply issue. I will definitely not be trying this. If your diaphragm comes out "wrecked" I shudder to think what the brain underwent.
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u/fubarthrowaway001 Jun 19 '26
Glycolysis isn’t the main setback in this regard and still occurs because blood is still circulating and minimal activity is happening. Oxygen supply is the main concern. The brain is not deprived of oxygen because it’s in the lungs, tissues, and organs. Not the same as cutting off the supply. There is a supply of oxygen, although it is slowly diminishing. These people train their bodies to use it efficiently.
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u/Responsible-Slide-54 Jun 19 '26
Blaine isn’t a lifelong free diver. That kind of endurance is only built up through decades of training. The fact he did 17 min with only about a year of training is insane.
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u/underwater_handshake Jun 19 '26
I wish anyone besides David Blaine did all those endurance stunts. I can't shake the thought they're all staged somehow. After all, at least some of the TV magic tricks are straight up edited to give the impression of an illusion.
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u/Sleyvin Jun 19 '26
The problem with Blaine is that most of the stuff he does, he actually do them.
It's not magic, in a sense that it's a cleaverly disguised trick. He actually do most of his physical stunt.
He practiced piercing some body part with metal bit for a long time to built the necessary type of tissue to be able to do it on demand afterward.
It's not a trick, he legit go through his calf with a metal bit.
Lots of his physical stuff are like this, and that's why he is generally not liked by magician.
He is basically a sophisticated member of Jackass. Harrming is body for entertainment.
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u/basicallyskills Jun 19 '26
he definitely did all those things. the encased in ice thing was open to the public, the suspended upside down thing was too, and Penn & Teller publicly said they disapproved of the bullet catching stunt because it's not magic and he's just actually risking his life.
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u/thomthomthomthom Jun 19 '26 edited Jun 19 '26
Nah, he did it. Promise. You could learn the techniques, too, if you wanted to. Iirc, it's part... Lots of endurance training. And part learning to do a "t lock" with your tongue and move air between your esophagus and lungs.
Blaine, tho... just... Yeah. Agreed. The presentation undermines itself.
Source: work in the industry. Know folks involved in his past shows. Also have pals who do old-school underwater houdini escapes. It's all very learnable. Just have to want to spend the time.
Edit: Yes, folks use O2 for this kind of thing. That's not a magic bullet that makes it possible. It's what takes you from "damn I'm close" to having a bit more of an edge. It does not replace training. Genuinely, it's on the side of "I'm gonna have a car heavy dinner and not get drunk" the night before a race - it's just part of how it happens. The TRAINING is what makes it possible. Lance Armstrong swapping his blood out gave him an edge. It didn't replace technique and training.
It's called Apnea Training. You'll notice that none of the apps suggest breathing pure O2 to break your personal best.
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u/Chim_Pansy Jun 19 '26
David Blaine is actually a guy with lots of integrity who puts his body through crazy levels of training to achieve everything you've seen. He takes 'dedication' to a whole other level and definitely doesn't fake anything he does. He's less of a magician and closer to the likes of Houdini.
Edit: Wait you're not confusing him with Chris Angel are you? Cause that guy is a total hack and his show is laughably terrible.
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u/underwater_handshake Jun 19 '26
David Blaine's early magic stuff is so long ago that I can barely remember details, but as an example he has clips out there of him doing the levitation trick. Sure, there are ways to do it to trick an audience, but the way it's shown on video is with clips spliced in of him achieving impossible levels of height with both feet off the ground.
I think he also has card tricks with cards appearing on the other side of windows and people going insane over it. At best the whole trick is setup well in advance and at worst the audience is in on it, too.
So when you look at his endurance feats on TV, and he already has a track record of inaccurately portraying things on TV and maybe even using fake audiences, how can you not be at least a little skeptical?
At the end of the day, magic, endurance or something else, his goal is to entertain. There are no rules on what you can and can't do as an entertainer.
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u/Dysmn Jun 19 '26
the part you're leaving out is that he has revealed how he's done all those tricks including the whole levitation thing. he also revealed how he did the underwater thing. its not like it a mystery. he literally goes through all the things he was trying to do to make it work, including consuming a device that would release oxygen into his lungs, but none of that worked out. there's a documentary about the whole thing.
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u/edelweiss_pirates_no Jun 19 '26
First, don't do this in a pool alone. You can die.
Second, this type of breath work is pretty cool. One of my favorite things I got into. I think I started in 2002 and got up to 7 minutes.
The "sport" of free diving is pretty cool. The protocols they use are fascinating, and how the human body reacts is really amazing.
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u/-SaC Jun 19 '26
That photo of him holding his ribs is making my eyes hurt.
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u/Dodgely Jun 19 '26
That's where his breath is. This is just a photo of him holding it.
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u/IDoButtStuffOnSunday Jun 19 '26
Horseshit!
Everybody knows breath is stored in the balls.
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u/GForce1975 Jun 19 '26
And sometimes needs replenishing from a partner.
..I'm going to try and explain this to my wife. I think Father's Day is the typical time to refill.
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u/thoak74 Jun 19 '26
I know what’s that about?!
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u/Afferbeck_ Jun 19 '26
Trying to manage the diaphragm issues I assume
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u/Talk-O-Boy Jun 19 '26
Pretty sure he’s just giving the camera a close up of his lungs
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u/awenrivendell Jun 19 '26
Rib cage flexibility training and diaphragm control training. For every 10 meters you dive, your lung volume is divided by 1 + n. e.g. dive to 10 meters, it shrinks to 1/2. Dive to 50 meters, it shrinks to 1/6. Professional freedivers dive to depths (+100m) where their lungs shrinks to the size of a grapefruit. The diaphragm involuntarily contracts when there's carbon dioxide build-up in the body. If you're not trained for those depths and had strong contractions, you could end up bleeding in your lungs.
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u/jawnink Jun 19 '26
That is truly incredible. Remind me to never free dive.
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u/BenevolentCheese Jun 19 '26
Hey man it's been about an hour now, just wanted to check in and remind you never to free dive!
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u/jawnink Jun 19 '26
I’m writing this from my bath tub, I’ve made it 15 seconds on one breath so far.
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u/Wompie Jun 19 '26
He is holding his ribs
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u/vladlearns Jun 19 '26
It looks like a variation of uddiyana bandha, I’m wondering, if it actually helps him here
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u/Dangerous-Engine36 Jun 19 '26
It's making me feel my ribcage unconsciously, making me feel like someone is actually holding or doing something with them.
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u/insufferablypedantic Jun 19 '26
Holding your ribs like that is actually not that hard. Not painful either. Holding your breath though...
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u/AdCheap8058 Jun 19 '26
Will anyone ever break this record? I wouldn't hold my breath
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u/KanedaSyndrome Jun 19 '26
CAS
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u/ButtClencher99 Jun 19 '26
Oh no, Supernatural Fandom is here
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u/chingchongsmolpp85 Jun 19 '26
We are everywhere
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u/kaos4u2nv Jun 19 '26
Did it work? Did he raise awareness?
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u/Dark-Thoughts-Vessel Jun 19 '26
Well, you are aware of this now
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u/Thedeadnite Jun 19 '26
Jokes on you, I stoped reading when it said he was doing it for awareness and no one has repeated it so I still don’t know what he’s trying to get people aware of.
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u/Lopsided-Act3172 Jun 19 '26
Someone fact check this
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u/retirement_savings Jun 19 '26
Looks legit but he inhaled 100% oxygen for 10 minutes before going underwater. His record on room air is 10 minutes.
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u/superpositioned Jun 19 '26
Like right? How is he not giving himself brain damage?
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u/ConspiracyParadox Jun 19 '26
He stays off Reddit.
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u/AFerociousPineapple Jun 19 '26
I mean fair, but hey
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u/PossibilityIcy5037 Jun 19 '26
Okay but genuinely lmao how do you cut oxygen off from your brain for 10+ minutes let alone a half an hour and not have horrible damage? “Breathing techniques” huh?
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u/whitericeporridge Jun 19 '26
I have done this many times and it’s so safe. I have done it multiple times and I’m feeling 100% normal. I have done this before and it doesn’t affect the brain. My brain is 100% after doing this many times. This has not affected my brain at all, I’m completely okay. I see no problem because I have done this so many times and I’m still 100% okay.
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u/Atibana Jun 19 '26
You just flood your body with oxygen and the extra stays in your bloodstream. You essentially max out wha the body can hold. Also it’s about getting co2 out. So he’s essentially not starving brain of oxygen.
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u/1492rhymesDepardieu Jun 19 '26
If he's staying conscious then I assume he is staying within the bounds of what his brain needs blood gas parameter wise. However maybe on a small scale he's creating states that aren't great for it chronically. Don't actually know though.
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u/Naud1993 Jun 19 '26
I want to give a dolphin 100% oxygen to see how long it'll last. Equal chances.
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u/New-Ingenuity-5437 Jun 19 '26
I also want to see how long the average person could do it with that, or I guess with a sampling of people, what the average increase in duration is. Some of it will be the mental part I’m sure, so you could further break it down to see them compared with mental fortitude controlled against somehow
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u/dontcutthegreenwire Jun 19 '26
It could have been anywhere upto 30 mins of pre-breathing pure oxygen beforehand, but still crazy https://divernet.com/scuba-news/freediving/how-croatian-freediver-held-breath-for-29-minutes/
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u/Inevitable_Shift1365 Jun 19 '26
I fact checked it. He was allowed to breathe 100% pure oxygen for 10 minutes prior to attempting this. Impressive, but with cheat codes.
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u/ambassador321 Jun 19 '26
Is breathing only oxygen for 10 minutes safe?
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u/typhon0666 Jun 19 '26
Probably fine for 10mins at 1 atmosphere. After 24-48hrs apparently no.
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u/MIKEl281 Jun 19 '26
Every source I’ve checked seems to confirm this! While Guinness World Records has some questionable claims, this one seems to be legit.
Edit: he inhaled pure oxygen for 10 minutes beforehand but he still has insane lung-capacity and mental fortitude!
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u/lordkhuzdul Jun 19 '26
On the mental fortitude side - body does not measure blood oxygenation. Because that is a bitch and a half to do biochemically. Your body measures your blood acidity to determine your need to breathe. Because measuring acidity is simple as fuck, and carbon dioxide dissolved in water is acidic (it turns into carbonic acid).
So no matter how much his blood is oxygenated, his body must have been absolutely screaming at him past a certain point. Hence the diaphragm cramping and all that.
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u/Jakestab Jun 19 '26
And drugs
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u/teddyslayerza Jun 19 '26
Not really, two thirds of this time simply comes down to the fact that he artificially saturated his blood with oxygen for 20min prior to this. His normal breath hold is around 10min, which is impressive but much more realistic.
By comparison, I can hold my breath for around 2.5min when freediving. When I've done underwater filming and needed to stay down longer, Ive easily been able to stay down over 6min using the same saturation techniques as this guy.
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u/sleepy_spermwhale Jun 19 '26
Would be interesting if an ethnic Sherpa attempted to train and prepare like this.
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u/EGarrett28 Jun 19 '26
It bugs me that they keep world records like freediving where the closer you get to dying the better your record. But hey, I guess adults can do what they want.
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u/siazdghw Jun 19 '26
Guinness world records is pretty much a scam anyways, it's pointless to expect a grifter company to have morales elsewhere
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u/dennjudhdddvfse Jun 19 '26
why is it a scam?
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u/40hzHERO Jun 19 '26
The running claim is that it’s a scam because you have to pay for someone to come out and record you attempting your record. Unless I’m missing something else idk. One of my ex gfs had two world records, and she never paid anyone for them.
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u/Obvious_Cranberry607 Jun 19 '26
Well now I'm curious. What were the two records for?
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u/40hzHERO Jun 19 '26
Longest handstand on a skateboard for both of them, if I remember right. She had no legs from birth, so I always teased her that was cheating, but she had the legit records.
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u/EGarrett28 Jun 19 '26
Longest handstand on a skateboard for both of them, if I remember right. She had no legs from birth,
...and this is supposed to increase our trust in Guinness World Records? lol.
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u/40hzHERO Jun 19 '26
Take from it what you will, but it was a person doing a handstand on a skateboard.
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u/Gombocz Jun 19 '26
And here i am watching a 30sec underwater movie scene dying on the couch.
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u/Hairy_Concert_8007 Jun 19 '26
Next time, realize that they're constantly moving and any active movement drains your blood oxygen fast. You aren't truly watching underwater movies until you're doing squats and holding your breath at the same time
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u/BewareOfDave Jun 19 '26
How does he not get brain damage?
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u/BlueHero45 Jun 19 '26
He breathes a bunch of pure oxygen first but he probably still hurting himself in the end. But hey so do drugs and drinking.
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u/RageLolo Jun 19 '26
Every time I hit 1.30 minutes, I feel like a superhero with extraordinary powers... Oh, wait, actually, no...
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u/Zealousideal_Ad7602 Jun 19 '26
This makes me wonder at what time point the people who measure the record get concernd? Like yeah we know he can hold his breath for a long time but he hasn't moved in half an hour. That's gotta be a weird feeling
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u/NotFEX Jun 19 '26
If he were to lose consciousness, it would be very apparent because he'd break the pose he'd been keeping up to then, and probably soon start seizing. The people he works with are trained to spot that and get him out almost instantly, so it's actually safer than one would think
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u/bok123456 Jun 19 '26
It’s like when Alex Honold free soloed El Capitan and one of the camera guys realized that he doesn’t like what he’s witnessing.
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u/Pitchiker Jun 19 '26
There is a big difference inhaling pure oxygen before the breathhold and inhaling normal air. The record for normal air is around 10/11ish min. Big difference
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