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Re:A woman who can descend into the sea on one breath by lurquer on Friday February 11, 2022 @10:26PM (#30309664)
> Scientists once thought humans could swim to a maximum depth of 30m on a single breath. Amber Bourke has gone deeper than 70m and physiology alone can’t explain why

The Men’s record is over 100m.

The article makes it sound like she broke some ‘human’ record.

She didn’t.

Strange wording.

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Re:A woman who can descend into the sea on one breath by bennysomething on Saturday February 12, 2022 @04:05AM (#30311223)
This really struck me as well, the mention of the men's record is a few paragraphs in. I stopped reading afterwards as it seemed misleading
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Re:A woman who can descend into the sea on one breath by samokhvalov on Saturday February 12, 2022 @04:09AM (#30311248)
Women's record is mentioned a bit earlier:

> Bourke reached a depth of 73 metres – a world record – ...

All the facts are correct and provided. But I agree, how they present facts looked weird to me too.

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Re:A woman who can descend into the sea on one breath by samokhvalov on Saturday February 12, 2022 @04:05AM (#30311226)
Women's CNF record currently is 73m (AIDA version, see https://www.aidainternational.org/WorldRecords/History/Const..., switch to Women). She is not WR holder, but current record is 73m and going deeper 70m without fins is close to it.

Here is her WR attempt (73m CNF, red card – probably the episode described in the article) https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2285865554973859

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Re:A woman who can descend into the sea on one breath by aliswe on Saturday February 12, 2022 @04:08AM (#30311240)
Agreed, and the article says some can even keep their breath for 11 minutes, but how she keeps breath for four minutes is a mystery?
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Re:A woman who can descend into the sea on one breath by samokhvalov on Saturday February 12, 2022 @04:18AM (#30311302)
11 minutes is STA – static breath-holding. Of course, without movements, you can hold breath much longer. Here are current AIDA STA WR numbers: https://www.aidainternational.org/WorldRecords/History/Stati... – legendary Natalia Molchanova still holds the record. If you don't know about Natalia, and her son Alexey (who currently holds several WR records, including 131 CWT mentioned in the article) I highly recommend reading about both of them. For example, here: https://www.gq.com/story/freediver-alexey-molchanov-profile.
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Re:A woman who can descend into the sea on one breath by robertlagrant on Saturday February 12, 2022 @05:02AM (#30311522)
Some elements of the Guardian audience require that sort of wording. They won't read the rest and find out she isn't a human record breaker.
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Re:A woman who can descend into the sea on one breath by reactspa on Saturday February 12, 2022 @04:56AM (#30311494)
I wonder if there are "Bajau Nomad" women who can dive for longer durations.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/bajau-sea...

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Re:A woman who can descend into the sea on one breath by McHankHenry on Saturday February 12, 2022 @04:41AM (#30311417)
Tsss. I can do that too. Just not very deep!
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Re:A woman who can descend into the sea on one breath by WalterGR on Saturday February 12, 2022 @05:46AM (#30311706)
She’s nowhere near the record

From the article: “Bourke reached a depth of 73 metres – a world record – but a split second blackout once she reached the surface disqualified her.”

is this here just because she’s a woman?

Yes, it must be some anti-man pro-woman conspiracy. That’s the obvious explanation.

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Re:A woman who can descend into the sea on one breath by simion314 on Saturday February 12, 2022 @04:49AM (#30311458)
For me this is an interesting story, the comments sections already have some more interesting links to follow and if you can please add more that you think are even better then this article.

In weekend we see more such stories on HN, and IMO we need a pause from yet another framework or toy shit in that language.

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Re:A woman who can descend into the sea on one breath by john567 on Saturday February 12, 2022 @06:46AM (#30312070)
There's nothing wrong about writing about women doing stuff. It's the way they do it that's annoying. Write a good article. Don't bend the truth. Be honest! What she is doing is still impressive.
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Re:A woman who can descend into the sea on one breath by avereveard on Saturday February 12, 2022 @05:01AM (#30311519)
As every other competitive diver.

Can't wait for the article on the woman who can ski.

What's next, women riding bycicles?

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