Today on German TV: Broadcasting about apnoe

[rbsub]

Only a hint for those who are interested on it, live in Central Europe and understand German:

Tonight at 21.00 on WDR: "Quarks & Co" about breathing, breathholding and so on.

You can receive "WDR" via satelite.

A snippet from the program guide (in German, sorry):

"Apnoe bedeutet Atemstillstand. Ohne Sauerstoffzufuhr sinken Apnoe-Taucher in Tiefen von bis zu 162 Metern. Eine unvorstellbare Leistung, die medizinisch nicht erklärbar ist, denn ohne Hilfsmittel kann der Mensch in solchen Tiefen normalerweise nicht überleben. Und auch die Fähigkeit, mehr als sieben oder acht Minuten ohne Luft auszukommen, grenzt an ein Wunder. "Quarks & Co" erzählt die Geschichte der beiden Extremsportler Pipin Ferreras und Umberto Pellizzari, die sich einen lebensgefährlichen Wettkampf um den Weltrekord im Apnoe-Tauchen lieferten."

 

[Jorg]

thanks for the tip, that was pretty interesting. Nicely presented, and the same presenter/scientist as the guy on the show were tom did a 8:34 static last week. Nice Oceanmen footage in the show makes the wait worthwhile. The same with the fluid breathing they demonstrated...

 

[rbsub]

I was impressed by the experiment where the presenter has lowered his O2-saturation to 50 % until he got very slow in thinking.

For the ones who didn't see it: He breathed air with only 8% O2 for some minutes.

 

[SanderP]

Sounds interesting, did someone record it? I'd love to see the documentary.