Man Held Breath for 18 Minutes Underwater - Neatorama

How long can you hold your breath underwater? Me? A minute, tops!

Well, however long you can hold your breath, I betcha it's nothing when compared to what Gianluca Genoni just did: he set a new world record for breath-holding, handily beating what David Blaine did (7 minutes) and the previous world record:

Gianluca Genoni held his breath for 18 minutes 3.69 seconds while lying underwater in a Mantua swimming pool, beating German diver Tom Sietas, who managed 17 minutes 19 seconds in September - also on live TV - to unseat Blaine from the Guinness world record book.

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-11-26_126282670.html - via Underwater Times

He probably breathes methan. His own. :/

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It's obvious he started his training regimen as a young child holding his breath in protest against his parents rules.

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Not to discredit the guy's achievement, but "according to Guinness rules, contestants are allowed to breath pure oxygen for 30 minutes" before the attempt. What's the point of making that stipulation. Why can't they just disallow oxygen doping and put everyone on the same playing ground?

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Haha - David Blaine sucks

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I don't care how he does it. That he beat David Blaine by miles is good enough for me!

I went to school with a guy named Nach, btw. :)

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I always wanted to hold my breath longer than 30 secs...nah, it never happened.

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So he beat David Blaine, but i don't thing Blaine got himself saturated on pure oxygen before the attempt like this guy did.

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David Merlini did some 21 minutes!!!

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David merlini the worlds first merman
21 minutes is unbalievabol

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