FREEDIVING

Did you know that people breathe between 12 and 20 times every minute?
Most people need to take in air at least every 30 or 40 seconds.
Freediving is a watersport that consists of holding your breath while diving underwater to great depths.
It is a highly dangerous sport and an extreme test of lung capacity.
Freediving needs special training.
Herbert Nitsch is an Austrian freediver who set the current world record for freediving.
In 2007 he dived to the incredible depth of 214 metres.
He didn't breathe in air for four minutes!

Here you have the video of that record:


And here you have William Trubridge's World Record Freediving without fins:


And here you have Ashley Chapman's World Record Freediving without fins (women):