How long can you hold your breath ? 45 seconds ? A minute ? How about five ?
Meet Sulbin . He ’s a fellow member of the Bajau multitude of South - East Asia . Also know as “ the ocean gypsies of Malaysia and Indonesia , ” the Bajau are basically real - life versions of Aquaman ; according to BBC ’s Megan Lane , “ [ The Bajau people ] are carry , live and die at sea , and fish by diving 20 K ( more than 65 foot ) underwater for minutes at a time on one breath . ”
In this cartridge holder from BBC ’s Human Planet , Sulbin dives over 20 metre beneath the water ’s surface to track down fish on the sea floor . Never listen the fact that Sulbin is exerting get-up-and-go that depletes his atomic number 8 stores more rapidly than if he were , say , at a computing machine reading about a deep - sea destitute - diver . Never mind the fact that the urine force per unit area at a depth of 20 beat is three times that of the pressure at the surface , squeezing his already O - impoverish lung . allow ’s just see if you could play off Sulbin ’s one , 150 - second gear breath .
Could you do it ? Excellent . Now try it again , only this time hold it for five minutes — the distance of time Sulbin claims to be able to prevail his intimation while hunting underwater . Oh , and while you ’re at it , verify you pick up smoke . grant to Tom Hugh - Jones , managing director of Human Planet , “ anyone who thinks this is an example of what a non - smoker ’s lungs can do will be disappointed … Sulbin smoke like a chimney . He say it relaxes his chest . ”
you could read more about the Bajau people and how they ’ve adjust to life underwater over atBBC News .
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