Not a single person in the world can not breathe for so long - except him.
In 2010, Danish freediver Stig Severinsen jumped into a pool filled with sharks and held his breath for 20 minutes and 10 seconds, breaking the previous world record. Two years later, the fearless Stig did it again and broke his own record by holding his breath for 22 minutes.
Severinsen has a doctorate in medicine and a master's degree in biology, which helps him solve extreme problems like swimming in icy water. Before setting his first world record for holding his breath, he swam in the icy water of the North Sea with freezing temperatures of about 72 meters, which is as much as 14.5 meters more than previous record holder Wim Hof could swim.
After several breaths, the Stig jumped into a hole in the ice, after which he immediately swam under the ice to the next hole. He was wearing only swimming trunks. The next hole was just at a distance of 72 meters from the first; there was no way to get out from under the ice halfway, which made the task extremely dangerous. The 40-year-old daredevil reached his goal in just 96 seconds, after which he swam a little in the ice hole to prove that the cold does not cause him much inconvenience.
No person in the world can hold their breath for such a time. In 2012, when Severinsen decided to break his own record, he was helped only by his medical brother, who monitored the state of vital organs. The freediver pre-did static apnea, which includes inhaling pure oxygen. Having got rid of nitrogen and carbon dioxide, which make up 78% of the air we breathe in natural conditions, he was able to saturate his lungs with oxygen, which helped him stay under water for 22 minutes.
When the Stig decided to break his record for holding his breath, he kept the pool water at around 30 ° C to conserve precious oxygen and reduce his heart rate to 30 beats per minute. After 20 minutes and 10 seconds, when the record was broken, he decided to stay for another minute and 50 seconds just for fun. In the end, he managed to hold his breath for exactly 22 minutes.
Aquaman says that his most important skill is the ability to abstract from his own body and not pay attention to pain. He claims that he is no different from an ordinary person, but simply knows how to turn off the sensory register for pain and discomfort.
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