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Yeah I saw one a couple of weeks ago with a woman in the bath doing a bit over 2 minutes but she looked like she was in trouble, while her cameraman (boyf/hubby I presume) kind of coached her on ("keep going, keep going" etc). Was quite disturbing to be honest.
I think back to my youth though and i'd lock the bathroom door (privacy issues as a kid) and hop in the bath tryng to hold my breath. I guess everyone has a crack at apnea at some point in their lives and it's always going to be more dangerous than they realise.
I have a question - how come as a kid (ie. 12-13 years old) I didn't know what would happen if I held my breath for too long, yet I "knew" that if I hyperventilated I would be able to hold my breath for longer? Not being the smartest kid on the block I most definitely would have picked this up from somewhere else (which of course would have been tv). What old tv show or movie could I have learnt this from, are there shots of people in shows hyperventilating then diving?
Cheers,
Ben
I think back to my youth though and i'd lock the bathroom door (privacy issues as a kid) and hop in the bath tryng to hold my breath. I guess everyone has a crack at apnea at some point in their lives and it's always going to be more dangerous than they realise.
I have a question - how come as a kid (ie. 12-13 years old) I didn't know what would happen if I held my breath for too long, yet I "knew" that if I hyperventilated I would be able to hold my breath for longer? Not being the smartest kid on the block I most definitely would have picked this up from somewhere else (which of course would have been tv). What old tv show or movie could I have learnt this from, are there shots of people in shows hyperventilating then diving?
Cheers,
Ben
Same with me - I somehow knew that, and I'm sure in my case it wasn't learnt from anywhere.BennyB said:
It's still there, I just found it. Scary. Looked like a samba to me, but hard to tell.BennyB said:
Some nice ones though - the Portland Dorset one and bubble rings.
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Further to BennyB's posting, when I was about that age (12 or 13) I was once trying to hold my breath with empty lungs while kneeling on the edge of the bath (I guess so that I could watch myself in the mirror). I started to black out and fell into the bath, hitting my head on the built-in soap dish, which smashed. Came to face downwards in a bath full of water, blood and bits of broken tile - fortunately before I'd managed to breath in any water. No long-term ill effects, but you can still just make out the scar on my forehead, forty-odd years later. Like him, I had the bathroom door locked, and it was before the era of safety locks that you can open from the outside.
Tom
Tom