I can swim 25m any moment and with good preparation I can do 40-45. So, I like to believe 50m is within reach. How far can you swim under water without surfacing for fresh air?
100% this. I always tell the live guards to keep an eye out when I attempt to push the limits, because that is how adult swimmers die.
I can swim at least 1000m deep. I can only do this once tho…
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Shouldnt you remove the /s or poeple might think you can do it 2 or more times ?
The s/ needs to stay. Some poeple have absolutely no sense of humour, it is to honour them.
edit: added ‘to’ to honour them
80ish meter is my record, but I'm a scuba diver so I trained for that distance.
Is that with gear or without?
With gear he should be able to dive waaaaay further.... a tank at 10m depth should easily last him over an hour if he is experienced. ... he ma be a very, very slow swimmer though... hmmm.... too many variables
This was breast stroke, so without any gear. With fins I've gone longer.
Keep in mind, this distance takes preparation and breath work. It isn't just jump in and go.
Breast stroke sounds so sensual in English
The bottom of the shallow end of the pool. Maybe even halfway to the deep end.
So, 18-20m?
You guys come up to breathe?
If I can catch a good breath I reckon I can swim 25m under water.
If you like swimming under water, consider underwater hockey as a hobby.
What? Is that even a thing?
Yes! A friend of mine does it. It's a very tough sport because you have to stay at the bottom and play hockey. He's in Antwerp :https://cvdduikclub.be/index.php/side-wie/owh
But they have a regular competition so there's definitely other teams as well. His club has intro weeks for newbies to try out every September and January I think. He always invites me and I always say no because my fitness level isn't high enough for it.
They are usually connected to diving clubs. Added a gif, hope it works
That looks so cool!
If I ever get back into swimming more, I'm definitely trying it out.
When I was younger I was able to do 50m quite easily after pushing myself for a long time. Now, I am already struggling at 12 meters.
Its all about heart rate. The slower your heartbeat, the less oxygen you consume. I can do 25m just by jumping in and going. Because my heartbeat is in rest then. However, if ive been doing regular swimming my heart rate is elevated and I need to feel my pulse and rest to make it go down. I want to do 50m though, but haven’t succeeded.
I used to be able to do 50m, in a 25m pool (so 1x back and forth, pushing myself off halfway). Nowadays my stamina is terrible and I'd probably manage 20m or so 😅
Please remember to never practice apnea alone. Accidents can happen even to experts.
50m with just dolphin kicks, never tried further (never had to or wanted to :p )
is that legs only or breaststroke underwater, 25m (turn) or 50m pool?
butterfly kicks I can go for 35m (when I was training for EC 40-45m), breaststroke +50m (2 turns)
I think it was a poll for humans, not fish ...
Impressive. It’s a 25m pool and coasting from the side walls. Furkawa + legs.
I've done 50m a few times in a 25m pool, when I used to swim regularly years ago.
50 is my goal, and ai honestly believe any healthy adult can reach that with practice. But I have not yet been able to do so.
Easily 50 meters. I can hold my breath for about 3,5 minutes when floating, so
I can go from 1 side of the pool to the other side so 50m :)
Depending on the length of the pool, but sure! 50m is awesome
Dont know how my breath would do while swimming , but i can hold breath 3.5 minutes
No idea but i once went 25m deep
Same
About 1,80m but I think I can do better. I just need a longer bathtub.
Without specific training I can do 50m.
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Just carry a snorkel with you at all times
For about 50 - 60 minutes on standard Scuba gear (200 bar 10 litres) between 5 and 15m depth at normal (above ten degrees Celsius) temperatures at about 1.5 m/s.
Since you have to come back, you can then dive for about (maximum) 20 minutes in one direction. So that you have enough time to come back in the other direction (at ~1.5 m/s - although I would recommend you measure with 1 m/s instead, since you might encounter difficulties for which you might need extra time).
An example of a difficulty is for example that you didn't go in a perfect straight line and you might need extra distance and time to navigate back because of that.
When using the current you can reach much much longer distances. But since I think you want to get out of the water at some point, you should probably have a good plan with the captain of your boat so that he or she picks you up a few kilometers further from where you got dropped.
You can actually travel for thousands of meters underwater without taking a single breath. You do have to give up the rather unhealthy addiction to Oxygen though 🤷🏻♂️😂
In Belgium, the deepest you can swim is around 35 meters, in Nemo33 in Brussels.
Personally, I never go deeper dan 4-5 meter when freediving.
Far, not deep.
He's talking about distance, not depth. Maximum depth for standard Scuba gear for average people with a PADI or NELOS training (with minimum 100 dives as experience) is going to be between 40 - 60m (although this will come with some serious risks already, so I think for depths deeper than 50m you should probably have 500 or more dives as experience to do it somewhat safely).
Everything deeper than that you need to be life-time well trained and/or professional. This then needs to be everything in your life. Dedication. Absurd amounts of preparation. Or you'll most likely simply die down there.
Note that the deeper you go, the shorter amount of time you have down there at the bottom. For 40m you wont have much more than 2 or 3 minutes with a typical single 300bar tank as you consume much much more air (exponentially more) the deeper you go.
Extremely deep dives indeed involves multiple stage tanks/bottles. Up to ten or more. So start preparing on how to switch from one bottle to the other, for example. You'll also be underwater for hours and hours. Else you'll die from horrible spasms once your surface.
ps. Nemo33 is great for training. Indeed.
But isn't depth just vertical distance, when measured from the water's surface?
That's true
I used to do this when I was younger. 25m was easy. I kept pushing myself until I made 50m. It was great, I loved the intensity of the feeling. You feel a big rush, struggling against your panic, telling you to go up.
I quit it when I learned that this was how the father of my then gf died. Pushed himself too far and drowned. In a public pool. Full grown man.
Watch out guys…