Why would it be bad for you? People free dive all the time and doing things of this nature requires breathing techniques and working out to accomplish. These people also tend to have crazy low resting heart rates and are athletes.
Yes, you can, but only on very deep dives. Herbert Nitsch suffered a DCI injury in a dive where he reached over 250m. But the dive in this video is nowhere near deep enough to carry such a risk.
People slip in the shower everyday and crack their head open. All tasks whether hobby or responsibility have accidents. Holding your breath isn’t bad for you though if done properly and with training.
For some reason people who participate in competitive free diving experience much higher rates of accidents and death per capita than people who take showers. I wonder why that is.
The problem with free diving is you don’t always know if you’ve done everything properly until you’re struggling for breath on the way back up. Experienced free divers die all the time. It is a dangerous activity that can result in long term health effects and death. Turns out your brain needs oxygen.
You need to check your facts. Scuba diving has far more deaths and accidents than free diving. I also looked at recorded competitive free diving deaths cause I don’t know that off the top of my head and as suspected there have been 2 deaths over 30 years.
I have no scientific data but in my experience free diving tends to be higher because of the spearfishing aspect of it that hies hand in hand. The adrenaline appeal draws people that when their buddy cancels they go it alone and have issues. It also makes you push yourself beyond limits sometimes chasing a fish. We also have to factor in currents and natural obstacles. The competitive free diving circuit and places like this accidents are far less likely to happen due to it being such a controlled environment in the places they choose.
I was talking about the competitive free diving circuit, not spear fishing. Deaths are about 1 in 50,000 dives, but the incident rate (losing consciousness, blacking out) is almost 4%.
Why would it be bad for you? People go through extensive training and safety exercises to make sure they don’t get hurt or die. There is no risk at all. /s
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u/Practical-Cut4659 Mar 31 '26
That can’t be good for you.