The World’s Greatest Freediver

Re:The World’s Greatest Freediver by mrfusion on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @07:33AM (#28681561)

So if you’re this good at holding your breath you could basically live underwater like a dolphin. Coming up to breath every minute or two. How weird would it be to spend a few hours like that?

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Re:The World’s Greatest Freediver by steve_adams_86 on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @10:14AM (#28683015)

One key difference is that humans need about as long as they were under water, at rest, to recover oxygen in their blood and normalize co2 levels. We can’t swim up, exhale, breathe, and swim back down. That’s a recipe for a guaranteed black out.

We also can’t swim very strongly while holding our breath. Everything is slow, controlled, deliberate, and conservative in all ways possible.

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Re:The World’s Greatest Freediver by jl2718 on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @11:07AM (#28694688)

Seems like a quick fix for a CRISPR/CAS9 edit.

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Re:The World’s Greatest Freediver by cool_dude85 on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @09:24AM (#28682468)

I doubt that he could hold his breath so long again right after like that. He probably needs to spend a while getting air before he could go back down.

I wonder if there's a multiple-dive discipline of freediving, maybe the deepest you can go 3x successively, with only say 15 seconds of air in between each dive.

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