INSIGHT

On 15th March 1959, Robert Foster (USA) voluntarily held his breath for 13 minutes and 42 seconds under 3.05 metres of water in a swimming pool in California, setting the first world record for the longest time breath held voluntarily by a ...

 GUIDANCE

Extended, underwater breath-holding by human beings for food gathering is a practice that can be dated back over 2,000 years via sources in Japanese art and literature (Nukada, 1965). Around the world, extended breath-holding still feature...