Man Held Breath for 18 Minutes Underwater

By Alex in Sports, World Records on Nov 30, 2008 at 1:36 pm

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.

Link – via Underwater Times

Tags: David Blaine, holding breath, record, underwater

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Max Power
Nov 30th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
He probably breathes methan. His own. :/
Ali S.
Nov 30th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
It’s obvious he started his training regimen as a young child holding his breath in protest against his parents rules.
nach
Nov 30th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
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?
PimpDaddyFlex
Nov 30th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
Haha – David Blaine sucks
Evilbeagle
Nov 30th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
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.
raina_c
Dec 1st, 2008 at 12:06 am
I always wanted to hold my breath longer than 30 secs…nah, it never happened.
Chris W
Dec 3rd, 2008 at 5:28 am
So he beat David Blaine, but i don’t thing Blaine got himself saturated on pure oxygen before the attempt like this guy did.
Jerry
Jan 22nd, 2009 at 5:36 am
David Merlini did some 21 minutes!!!
T_A_R_E_K S_E_B_A_I
Jun 27th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
David merlini the worlds first merman
21 minutes is unbalievabol

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