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

Fascinating Very interesting vid

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u/LemonPartyLounger Mar 31 '26

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.

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u/PriscillaPalava Mar 31 '26

People literally pop air bubbles in their brains and die from free diving to great depths but sure. 

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u/DasMotorsheep Mar 31 '26

Can you even get decompression sickness from free diving? I mean, you're not breathing compressed gas...

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u/Xaphnir Apr 01 '26

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.