Hold your breath for 15 minutes?

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How is this possible?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,283613,00.html

Must go into some kind of hibernation mode.

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[jakee 1,610]

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How is this possible?

I don't know, but one thing's for sure, they neeed a new agent!

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The Gaiciunas siblings, both veteran circus performers, spent almost three days frozen in a 12-ton block of ice in 2005, for which the government rewarded them with 1,500 euros each.

Do you want to have an ideagasm?

[The111 1]

1) They're "illusionists", not apneists (otherwise known as a freediver).

2) They breathed pure oxygen before the breath-hold. I've never tried this, but I've spoken to an accomplished freediver who did, and he stated that after 20 minutes he got bored and quit trying. Note that you can NOT actually dive with pure oxygen, but you can use it for surface/static breath-holds. (The article states they were at the bottom of a pool, which for all intents and purposes - compared to a real freedive - is a surface static).

As skydivers, we should know how unreliable the media is:

broke the record set in 1959 by Canadian Robert Foster.

I'm not sure who this guy is but he does not have any long standing apnea records (nor is there any organization I am aware of that keeps records for something as silly as a pure oxygen breath-hold). Tom Sietas has held the record for a while, just over 9 minutes for a static breath-hold. And that's the real deal (in other words, he breathed AIR).

FWIW, I've held my breath for 4 minutes. (again, AIR)

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FWIW, I've held my breath for 4 minutes. Angelic (again, AIR)

So that explains the brain damage.

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I've held my breath for 4 min at 30,000 ft. And yes, 100% pure oxygen was involved.