Name: The joy of free diving: 6 Minute English
Uploaded: 2020-03-23T05:21:54.000Z
Duration: 6 min 34 s
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Neil: Hello. This is 6 Minute English, and I'm Neil.

Neil: That’s right. We’re going to find out

today about a world record free diver. But

first a question – and this is a physics

one. On dry land, at sea level, the pressure

or weight of all the air above us is known

A: 1 metre, B: 10 metres, or C: 100 metres

than air, but there is lot of air above us,

Herbert Nitsch holds the world record for

the deepest free dive. In 2012 he reached

Lungs are the organs in the body that hold

that he trains himself not by starting with

but the time up to that point is no training

at all. Only the time you have the urge to

breathe and fight against it, that’s the

We don’t have to think about it. If you

hold your breath there is a point when your

body tells you that it’s time to breathe.

telling us – go on, breathe, take a breath!

have to ignore that urge, you have to fight

against it. So to train to do that, it’s a

don’t need to breathe isn’t difficult – you

have to practise fighting against that urge

Neil: Nitsch did a lot of free diving in lakes

in his home country of Austria. Diving in

lakes is very different from diving in the ocean.

Herbert Nitsch: In the beginning it’s very

spooky, and yes, it’s not a pleasant feeling

at all in the beginning. It’s something

while you get used to it and you learn to

appreciate it actually that it’s so quiet.

Neil: How does he describe the sensation?

Georgina: It’s very cold, dark and quiet

when diving deep in lakes and at first he

means it’s a little scary and mysterious –

Neil: And he also says it’s 'intimidating',

which is a feeling of being frightened by

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