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How long can you typically hold your breath after capsizing in action? 16 years 3 months ago #25695

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Poll: How long can you typically hold your breath after capsizing in action?

This is a real dificult estimation

I practiced a little skin diving and many of the course exercises was focused on maintaing breath
during action.

In Whitewater is much difficult to calculate this, so i figured out 20 seconds
But it real depends on what happening around you

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Re:How long can you typically hold your breath after capsizing in acti 16 years 3 months ago #25697

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I can't really hold my breath for that long but under pressure definitly for about a minute and probably more. The trick is not to think about how long your holding your breath for think of something else and concentrate on it like the alphabet!!

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Re:How long can you typically hold your breath after capsizing in acti 16 years 3 months ago #25700

whoever voted for more than 2 minutes: please explain! i want to learn that trick too... Actually I find it very hard to believe. I can hold my breath for 2 minutes if I prepare really well and relax to the max, but in a stressy situation like being windowshaded, I'm typically through after 10 seconds...
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Re:How long can you typically hold your breath after capsizing in acti 16 years 3 months ago #25713

right. as long as the 2min+ guys don't explain, i'll just not believe them :)
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Re:How long can you typically hold your breath after capsizing in acti 16 years 3 months ago #25753

I went for 20 seconds.... :silly: Although it also depends on what's downstream :angry:

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Re:How long can you typically hold your breath after capsizing in action? 16 years 3 months ago #25764

As you hold breath the lung CO2-levels start rising while at the same time you consume your oxygen. The rise of CO2 makes you want to breath again - nasty sensations. These are primal mechanisms, that protect us, so normally we start breathing before you must.

More dangerous is a scenario, where you end up under water without having the time to breath and your body in fullpower mode. The ogygen levels hit the floor just when you are allmost out of it and so you may blackout before you know.


I´ve held my breath for only 30 - 40 s while getting worked.:S

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Re:How long can you typically hold your breath after capsizing in action? 16 years 3 months ago #25796

How can anybody actually know the answer to this question? Unless somebody captured the whole thing on video, and you were out of breath when you finally came up, your estimate of how long you were down is likely to be wildly inaccurate.

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