Scientists have long established that humanthe body can do without food from fifty to seventy days, and without water you can live up to ten days. But the most important for life support is the need for breathing. Without oxygen, the body will last only a few minutes.
Recently it has become a popular trend.set various records and achievements in many areas of activity. Testing the capabilities of the human body is no exception. Divers and athletes compete among themselves, trying to break the world record for breath-holding. Everyone understands that an unprepared person cannot do without air for a long time. Therefore, despite what a record for breath holding was set, the champion had to train for a very long time.
Body features
Under normal conditions, a simple adultable to hold your breath for forty to sixty seconds. It's no secret that this ability is individual, and in the process of training you can achieve more effective and long-lasting results.
A breath hold record helps sethyperinflation of the lungs, that is, frequent and deep inhalation of atmospheric air. After this exercise, divers can stay under water for up to nine minutes. The first record for holding breaths in depth belongs to a Frenchman named Michel Bad. He stayed under water for six minutes and four seconds without moving.
A little trick
It is established that, after inhaling a cleanoxygen, you can do without air for a longer time. The world record for breath holding at a depth of six meters without special equipment was established in 1959. At the age of thirty-two, Robert Foster, a native of the United States, sat under water for thirteen minutes and forty-two seconds. The champion was helped to achieve an achievement by pre-breathing pure oxygen for thirty minutes.
Reserve of oxygen in the body
With the phenomenon of apnea (breath holding),the human body uses almost all the oxygen reserves. The reserve of this vital compound is about two liters. Of these, nine hundred milliliters are present in a person’s lungs, six hundred milliliters are retained in the blood, and five hundred milliliters are in the muscles. Of the total number of people who set the world record for breath holding, could use only one and a half liters. Further stay under water would bring direct damage to health, due to a sharp decrease in the concentration of this important substance and oxygen starvation of the cells.
World achievement
The Guinness record for holding your breath belongs to a German freediver named Tom Sitas. This man lasted twenty-two minutes and twenty-two seconds without air.
Former Breath-Hold World Recordinstalled Ricardo Bahi, who did not breathe for twenty minutes and twenty-one seconds. The new champion Tom Sitas, five hours before the competition, refused to eat in order to slow down the metabolic processes in the body, and just before the dive he breathed pure oxygen. It should also be noted that the world record for holding his breath helped him to establish a large volume of lungs, which is twenty percent more than that of an ordinary person.
Inexplicable but the fact
Few people know that in 1991, the seventyA resident of India named Ravindra Mishra in the presence of observers, specialists, and a group of scientists was able to hold out under water for six days. All this time, under the supervision of a special device, the man meditated. Dr. Raksh Kafadi carefully observed that the guru did not float to the surface to take a breath or use other tricks to deceive numerous observers. At the end of the allotted time, Mishra floated to the surface in a sound mood and mind. The researchers confirmed that the man spent under water one hundred forty-four hours, sixteen minutes and twenty-two seconds. All this time he was sitting in a lotus position at a depth of nineteen meters. Experts believe that Mishra plunged his body into a special state of meditation, when the vital activity of all organs was reduced to the maximum. With this method, the man avoided the phenomenon of oxygen deficiency. Mishra himself said that the ancient goddess had allegedly helped him to sit under water for such a long time, in whose honor he set this record.
Phenomenal immersion
In the same year, a resident of the Philippines named JorgePachino, a simple fisherman, stayed under water for one hour and five minutes. The depth of the dive was sixty meters. Special devices and scuba, allowing breathing under water, were absent. This was witnessed by cameramen who filmed the dive on film. The process that made the famous persona ordinary fisherman from the city of Ampari, physiologists, doctors can not explain.
Dangers
Meanwhile, prolonged breath holdings and techniquesTraining apnea with considerable probability can cause detrimental effects on the health of the body. Hyperventilation of the lungs can directly contribute to loss of consciousness. And the method of buccal pumping, during which air previously collected in the mouth participates in breathing, can lead to rupture of the lungs. In this regard, any freediver must comply with safety precautions. All training should be carried out only in a group and under supervision, even if the depth of the dive seems small.
