Tom Sietas on Guinness show

[Ricochet]

Europeans, watch RTL channel.

My sister just told me that there is a guy going to hold his breath for 15 minutes. ( I have no further infos right now)

 

[SanSan]

Tom Sietas is trying to set a new Guinness WR right now. The show is on RTL television.

He will try to stay under water for more than 13,425 minutes and break the record from Robert Foster set in 1959 with pure oxygen.

Good luck to him.

 

[Ricochet]

Re: Europeans, watch RTL channel.

It's Tom Sietas. I think he is breathing pure oxigen at the moment.

 

[SanSan]

Re: Europeans, watch RTL channel.

I was a bit faster . Here's the thread with a few more info.
[ame="http://forums.deeperblue.net/showthread.php?t=63440"]Tom Sietas on Guinness show[/ame]

 

[Ricochet]

Check the time of the posts... I was faster

 

[Ricochet]

Re: Europeans, watch RTL channel.

Check the time of the posts... I was faster

 

[Ricochet]

Re: Europeans, watch RTL channel.

13minutes, 19 seconds

 

[SanSan]

Hehe Ur right I saw only ur 2nd post. He missed the WR by a few sec.

 

[Alun]

Re: Europeans, watch RTL channel.

only 13mins?? my friend did more than that on O2 just last week! (he has a 5'45" PB on air.) Tom should be able to do much more than 13mins! maybe he found it hard being under pressure on TV?

 

[SanSan]

Re: Europeans, watch RTL channel.

Tom did 17min in training. The conditions where awful. There was a crowd of people aplauding all the time and he did his breathold during Bon Jovi did their show just besides him. Im rendering the video right now and will try to put it ol if I can.

 

[Alun]

Re: Europeans, watch RTL channel.

Bon Jovi?? well, that's enough to put anyone off...

 

[SanSan]

Re: Europeans, watch RTL channel.

Bon Jovi?? well, that's enough to put anyone off...

Jeah they sang while he was prepairing and they talked and jumped around the pool during his breathold. I can't belive he managed to calm down. Well the doc said his puls was quite higher than in trainigs.

 

[aydin]

Re: Europeans, watch RTL channel.

In a TV studio,when Bon Jovi making their shows besides the pool,and Tom Sietas breathing pure O2 :duh
And all of this happenings can be only in Germany
Aydın

 

[quasimoto]

wait, what?

 

[Will]

Re: Europeans, watch RTL channel.

Show's how much the conditions can impinge on performance. However 17 minutes in training doesn't sound like a great deal - only 70% improvement on normal air static. Umberto, who has a PB of 7:59, once did 19 minutes on O2 (and only stopped because he got spooked by not having contractions). This is an improvement of 140%.

 

[DeepThought]

Re: Europeans, watch RTL channel.

I might voluntarily drown myself if I had to listen to Bon Jovi for that long...

 

[SanSan]

Re: Europeans, watch RTL channel.

I still think its an avesome achievement and my respect to Tom.

Here's the video (hope my hosting company won't kill me for this one ):
http://www.h2oteam.com/sub/stream/RTL24092005.wvx

 

[SanSan]

wait, what?

Sorry there was a thread open a few min berofe this one. Heres the link: [ame]http://forums.deeperblue.net/showthread.php?t=63439[/ame]

 

[efattah]

Re: Europeans, watch RTL channel.

I don't think Tom's method works very well for pure O2.

For pure O2 you need to do several warm ups (which Tom doesn't do), on regular air, then hyperventilate like a crazy man for 10 minutes at least, preferably on oxygen, then pack and go.

 

[Ruffdiver]

Great Time Tom, fantastic archivment!!!!!!!!!!
See ya in Berlin.

Deeply,
Andy (19)
"German Young Gun