[News] New Unusual World Record

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An unusual and new Guinness world record was achived last weekend, where Czech freedivers had a eight divers breathing from a single regulator during an hour. It is amixture of scuba and apnea. The previous Guinness record of six persons held by anoth...

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[Kars]

just 6?

In the Netherlands there were record atempts with 24 people doing that...
My own Scuba Dive also did a record of 18 divers.

Love, Courage and water,

Kars

[island_sands]

its 8, was 6. oh well, we cant all be as good as you Dutch can we?

[Pastor]

Not a patch on the Welsh but we wont go there. Then there's the Scots, they could make a single bottle last 24 of them for a week if they thought they would save on the re charge

[island_sands]

Originally Posted by Pastor

Not a patch on the Welsh but we wont go there. Then there's the Scots, they could make a single bottle last 24 of them for a week if they thought they would save on the re charge

yeah the Scots. fortunately they knew how to argue over a coin, hence we now have wire

[trux]

Originally Posted by Kars

just 6?

In the Netherlands there were record atempts with 24 people doing that...
My own Scuba Dive also did a record of 18 divers.

During a full hour too? Not sure abut the Dutch record, but this one was not only about the maximal number of divers breathing from a single regulator (hence about the speed of the regulator exchange), but rather about the minimal consumption - they tried going slow and consuming as little air as possible. They could certainly turn much faster than they did (approximately a round in a minute, or 8s per person), hence get more divers involved, but they would consume more air and the twin tank would probably not last for an hour.

[Kars]

I have to ask for futher details, but this is what I know from the top of my head.

They used 1 regulator on a 5m hose to the tank placed in the middle of the pool. And I'm sure it was done for an extended time. I quess for an our, being observed by juries from the National CMAS.

I remember we did an similar exersize with about 6-8 people, where it was indeed pretty hard, but manageble to partially exhale, exhale a bit through to clear the regulator and take 1 breath and pass on the regulator to the next in line. We did it only for something like 10 minutes, as a fun game with an educational twist to help people understand that one has some margine in case of regulator problems.

Need to email them for the exact story.

Kars

[Observer]

I don't suppose there's any internet video of this or similar exercises out there, is there?

[trux]

Originally Posted by Observer

I don't suppose there's any internet video of this or similar exercises out there, is there?

There is probably a full video of the attempt - you may contact the organizer Petr Vala, or Pavlina Prochazkova. Their email addresses at the bottom of the page at Rekord v poètu lidí dýchajících z jedné láhve
There are also some more photos on that page.

A short video is available on the website of the Czech Television at ÈESKÁ TELEVIZE - iVysílání : Události v regionech - it is at the end of the clip (starting at around 7:30 from the beginning of the clip).