How do you breath underwater without a snorkel or scuba gear?
by scubaboy on Monday, August 9th, 2010 | 4 Comments
I would really like to know how to swim without a snorkel or scuba gear?I mean how do I do that in my neighbor hood swimming pool.If that can’t be figured out how do I hold my breath longer?I would really like to now because swimming is one of my favorite sports and I have been swimming since I first got in the water.
You can’t breathe underwater without a snorkel or scuba gear unless you have gills or a hot tub with air bubbles….You can breathe in the air bubbles! I’ve stayed underwater for 10 minutes breathing ‘em. Good luck.
Unless you grow some gilles you cant breath under water.
You can’t breathe underwater.
You *can* practice breathing exercises and expand your lung capacity so you can stay under longer. Take long deep breathes for several minutes then go under and trying to stay down longer each time. DO NOT take short shallow breathes and hyperventilate before going under because it can cause you to become unconscious and drown from Shallow Water Blackout. Also, it’s best to practice breath holding in a pool with a certified lifeguard on duty.
Free-diving is a very interesting sport where one discipline is static apnea – timed breath holding in a pool (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-diving). If you watched the movie Blue Crush then you know that Hawaiian surfers sometimes practice by diving down and carrying large lava rocks back and forth underwater. Breath holds are important for them because large breaking waves can hold a surfer down for several minutes before they have a chance to come up for air.
Im a Division Champion Swimmer, and our coach makes us do laps (50 meters each way), and we can only take one whole breath every lap. In school she also a teacher, and made us while writing hold our breathe till we could, then wait a minute and do it again. I started off only holding my breathe for 45 seconds and now im up to 3 minutes, Long story short, make your lungs full of air about 80%. Then hold the air in untill you start to feel dizzy, then let go. Wait about a minute or two untill your breathing is normal, and then do it again about 3 more times. But dont go more than that. I think itll hurt you im not sure.