Research reveals how natural selection shaped the Bajau sea nomads’ spleens to boost oxygen delivery, helping them dive for minutes on a single breath. For more than a thousand years, the Bajau — ...
Croatian freediver Vitomir Maričić has achieved a new oxygen-assisted breath-hold world record of 29 minutes and 3 seconds, surpassing the previous mark by nearly five minutes. The feat, performed in ...
Most of us can hold our breath for between 30 and 90 seconds. A few minutes without oxygen can be fatal, so we have an involuntary reflex to breathe. But freediver Vitomir Maričić recently held his ...