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February 13th, 2008
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I am writing an article on Laryngospasm.
I need your help. I need to hear about observed blackouts. I will post the results here - it might be interesting: 1. Name of victim (first name is ok) 2. Year and place 3. Discipline 4. Depth of BO 5. release of air? 6. Time until breathing , from estimated BO, and from surfacing. 7. Type of handling of victim. 8. Water in lungs (one drop, three drops, a mouthful?). 9. Any squeeze involved regards Sebastian info@fridykning.se
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http://www.freediving.biz Last edited by cebaztian; February 13th, 2008 at 15:07. 
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February 16th, 2008
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From what I have seen, 3 minutes seems to be the average duration of the spasm. Prior to that, artificial respiration can be difficult or impossible. Tom's spasm in 2003 was 3 minutes after video review.
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February 18th, 2008
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Cebaztion,
Here is interesting account of my Laryngospasm, I have not heard any others like it: I was training dynamic at my local 25m pool. I did 3x25m (75m) with a static hold at the end, maybe 15 or 20 seconds. I exhaled the air OK, and on the inhale had 2 or 3 "gulpy" interruptions that I recognized as involuntary contraction of my larnyx. After that breathing was normal. I had recently done a PFI course so had seen videos of this type of thing so am sure that is what it was. I am also sure if I had not had this training I would not have recognized it at all and certainly not as a sign of hypoxia. I also clearly remember this incident unlike others I have had with no memory where people explained what had happened to me. I think part of why this might have happened is that there is a very very strong urge to breathe after you come up from the water and so I would have been holding my larnyx "harder" to keep from breathing and this may have contributed to the larngyospasm while I was not hypoxic enough to lose consciosness. 1. Name of victim (first name is ok) Wes Lapp 2. Year and place 2006 - Hood River Aauatic Center (25m pool) 3. Discipline DYF training with monofin 4. Depth of BO At surface 5. release of air? No. 6. Time until breathing , from estimated BO, and from surfacing. O seconds 7. Type of handling of victim. None 8. Water in lungs (one drop, three drops, a mouthful?). None 9. Any squeeze involved None regards Sebastian
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