A freediver recently set a new world record for a breath hold. His physical and mental training allowed him to delay a basic human survival response: breathing.
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New research shows the Bajau Laut people of Southeast Asia have evolved bigger spleens to store more oxygen-rich blood.
Diving without oxygen tanks requires you to enact some very weird and very strange and not all that well understood physiological feats just to stay alive.


