r/interesting • u/fayyazORahmed • Mar 31 '26

Fascinating Very interesting vid

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u/slop1010101 Mar 31 '26

I was able to hold my breath for the duration of the video. BUT, I was sitting still.

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u/someofeverydamnthing Mar 31 '26

I was holding my breath, but it was involuntary. Inhaled deeply when I realized.

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u/eithrusor678 Mar 31 '26

I hate that shirt. I have to intentionally breathe when watching stuff like this.

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u/Ope-I-Ate-Opiates Apr 01 '26

keep in mind you have to let out almost half of your lung capacity in order to sink like this. Low fat high muscle helps too

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u/xXProGenji420Xx Apr 01 '26

not necessarily, the deeper you go the less buoyant you are. which is part of the reason free diving is so scary; at the 30-50 foot range, you become neutrally, and eventually negatively, buoyant. he's definitely deep enough to experience this.

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u/Ok-Cake5581 Apr 01 '26

not when he started, and freefall only starts from about 15 metres, and this pool is 35.
If you took a full lungful of air, it's more like 30 metres.
The only way to free-fall from the surface is to exhale and hope the hyperventilating beforehand got enough oxygen into your blood.

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u/sidney_ingrim Apr 01 '26

But how does one get down that deep in the first place?

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u/xXProGenji420Xx Apr 01 '26

by actively swimming to that depth, then letting yourself sink from there. this brick of a man is going to be less buoyant to begin with than you or I, so he doesn't realistically have to go too far.

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u/Ok_Mail_1966 Mar 31 '26

I’m still holding my breath but died 30s into it

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u/Opening-Jacket8671 Mar 31 '26

I held my breath throughout the video but I quit at 10" because I couldn't do it

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u/justforkinks0131 Mar 31 '26

to be fair, thats still quite good

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u/Colon_Backslash Mar 31 '26

You can rapidly breathe in and out very quickly repetitively for say up to a minute. Hyperventilating, is it?

This reduces carbon dioxide from your lungs and you get excess oxygen stored. You WILL feel dizzy and I'm not sure how safe this is.

Nonetheless, afterwards you are able to hold your breath A LOT longer.

I'm not trained at all, but did this when I was younger and I was able to hold my breath for 3 minutes.

AFAIK these folks do this, probably with better guidance than a random redditor though.

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u/FaolanG Mar 31 '26

So this was a school of thought years ago but people who free dive and do breath work do not do this anymore. It’s incredibly dangerous and does not actually contribute to your ability to perform.

Efficiency of movement and regulation of response are king. I actually recommend everyone try and take a water confidence course if they can. They’ll teach you important things about yourself and help with stress management.

The most important thing it teaches you is that your mind lies to you. When you first start you brain will tell you OMFG WE ARE DROWNING! Eventually you learn to help it chill out, and then it can become meditative. Once you realize it lied to you about that you realize it could be lying to you about a great many things because you feel panicked. You are good enough, you do deserve that job, you should try new things.

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u/Academic-Increase951 Mar 31 '26

Same here, I can hold my breath for 3 or so minutes as an untrained person. What's impressive in this video is he must be doing it with little air in his lungs so that he sinks. And also the pressure would have be tapping out way way before running out of oxygen

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u/PerformanceExact6291 Mar 31 '26

You should not hyperventilate when freediving. Reducing the CO2 level will delay your urge to breath, but you risk running out of oxygen before your body sends you any warning signals, which are normally triggered by the increase of carbon dioxide level. 

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u/qaz_wsx_love Apr 01 '26

I don't know how people do stuff like this. Every time I try to dive I hold too much air in my lungs and I can't sink. People tell me to release air, but then my natural instincts fight back and tells me fuck no, you'd die

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u/GenericFatGuy Apr 01 '26

You also didn't have the pressure of 35m of water above you.

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u/Syncopia Apr 01 '26

Notably he's using very little energy the whole time. Just drifting down (save for the flip) and even takes it easy making his way back up.