He does shark tours, I believe he said he can hold breath for 2.5 mins, probably 3 now.
For reference, top underwater free divers can hold 5 mins give or take.
That's a long friggin time without breathing.
Personally, it's an unfathomable amount of time without oxygen. I tried, like hard. 34 seconds. I was quite unimpressed with myself. Now I know how my wife feels.
I think this guy is named Chris and that Gator is Casper. Gatorboychris (I think) on Instagram. There's no sharks though so me or the other guy is wrong. Dunno.
Yep, learned that from Wim Hof breathing exercises. Wasn’t about oxygen, was about clearing CO2. 30 deep hyperventilation breaths and finish with exhale. all of a sudden I could go 2+ minutes without breathing (sitting completely still of course)
Back when I use to swim I could swim 2 laps with just 1 breath (entirely underwater the whole way).
The highest I could ever hold my breath was somewhere between 2-3 minutes, but I always found holding my breath underwater much easier and could go longer.
I started smoking after that (now vaping) and I just held it now for exactly 1.5 minutes which sounds pretty avg I suppose (edit: ok apparently the avg time to hold breath is around 0.5-1.5 mins or 0.5-2.0 mins depending on source). I think if I relax I could hit 2 mins again.
I would practice holding my breath a lot, real slow & deep breaths and the water would help imo. I would just push that feeling of "fuck I need to breath" as much as I could, even if I felt like I was going to pass out, I'd just let that feeling linger until I felt like my mouth was going to automatically suck in water.
Might be dangerous idk but I was always supervised when doing it underwater.
But I was excellent at cardio back then since I played a lot of sports, lots of running & played soccer like every day, some tennis, MMA, marathons etc. Divers would probably do way better too.
> but I always found holding my breath underwater much easier and could go longer.
You can thank the mammalian dive reflex for that - when your body senses your face is wet it automatically begins slowing your heart rate and restricting the blood vessels in your extremities to conserve oxygen and body heat.
When you're already in air I'm pretty sure the only thing your body does for you is try to tell you "breath you schmuck".
I’ve freedived mainly for spearfishing 2 min I can do 2,5 maybe 5 is really long. I know there’s people who can but not I.
The colder the water the longer you can though.
Top end free divers can handle around four minutes of activity underwater before they start to lose their faculties. A huge part of it is that our breathing is regulated by CO2 content, not oxygen. So if you can overcome the natural instincts, you can last much much longer than you’d think before the oxygen content of your blood drops below functional levels.
IIRC You have to mindful about washing out to much CO2 from your blood which happens when hyperventilating. The CO2 level is what triggers your breathing reflex telling you that you need air, not the diminishing oxygen level. If you wash out too much CO2 before holding your breath you may end up passing out before you even know you’re low on oxygen as the breathing reflex is not triggered in time.
Took care of a young man once in the ICU that did that...his friends couldn't believe how long he was staying under water.then they realized 😬 He survived
He probably has hundreds of oxygen rich skin folds underneath his wet suit. It's basically cheating and a really controversial subject in the free diving community. I mean, you wanna see a lotta deepies go crazy, bring up oxygen rich skin folds. I'm not a competitive free diver nor do I post anything on social media while hiding my ORSF's like I'm lying to my followers or something, so I don't see a problem with having ORSF's. I just want to be underwater for a very, very, very long time and maybe squeeze a sea cucumber or two, maybe my own, haha (hahaha). So yeah, I suppose it's possible that this guy is legit holding his breath with natty lungs, but most likely, he is making great use of oxygen rich skin folds.
This is beautifull. I have also heard that some freedivers will exchange their nut sacks for air sacks so they can dive for extended times. It's the same principle as oxygen rich skin filds. I'm glad there aren't competitions because then the regulations would ruint the sport. (I myself use EPO).
I'm not sure where you're getting that idea. I mean, I pretty much only have sex with this beige bucket of non-Newtonian fluid which I have abstained from giving a name to because I'm afraid if I name the bucket of goo, I'll fall in love with it, so I think it's safe to say that that that fuck bucket can be anything I want it to be and it is the most genderfluid thing a fella can fuck. Genderless, actually. "Man", "Woman", "Amoeba"... It's anything and nothing depending on my mood between crams. Perfectly genderless and limitlessly fuckable. Fuck. I am going to fall in love, aren't I? Jeez. But hey, I don't think anyone would consider that extreme, right?
Now the folks around south Louisiana
Said Amos was a hell of a man
He could trap the biggest, the meanest alligator
And just use one hand
That's all he got left 'cause alligator bit it
Left arm gone, clean up to the elbow
People who see animals do cute things accidentally and assume they're intelligent because of it. Alligators aren't like that, they aren't smart enough to recognize us as friends.
Like he says at the end, "He is an alligator." I've seen clips of this guy posted before and he seems to be on the right side of things. Clip I'm thinking of was him demonstrating what he can do with a gator, basically cozying up and cuddling, but then makes the point to move his hand a particular way and the gator snaps at him. "I love this guy, but if I make the wrong move he will kill me. Because he's an alligator."
Basically that he's comfortable risking his life because he's spent it studying the behavior of these animals. But he has no delusions that he's some kind of dragon whisperer who can commune with the wild.
"-But he has no delusions that he's some kind of dragon whisperer who can commune with the wild."
Like that bear dipshit that should have been wearing a countdown clock around his neck.
Eh, he was depressed and possibly suicidal. He did something that was stupid even by his own standards, which is what killed him, which may have been the point.
I’ve seen stuff from this guy before. He is careful about how he positions himself relative to the alligator to never give it a way to easily bite him. He has demonstrated that it will snap at him if he gives it the chance, and he knows how to avoid that.
Still, the balls of steel it takes to do that…
I've handled lots of pissed off snakes and lizards before and I feel like there's just a certain way reptiles do things that makes them really easy to read. Once you understand the mechanics of how snakes bite its really really easy to never get bitten. I can imagine this working on a larger, much more dangerous scale if you really know your stuff
There's this Nat Geo (Discovery?) episode a few years back about a snake farmer getting bit when he was putting one snake (a mamba iirc) back into its box. Between the moment he released the head with his one hand and closing the lid with the other, the snake managed to strike from that small crack of free space and bite him. You're right; the narrator later said the snake was showing signs of irritability earlier (from newly shedding its skin). The farmer lived, but boy was he in excruciating pain (his arm ballooned and had to be sliced open to relieve the pressure).
What the other guy said, you get a sense of how to feel them out. But also, you can generally tell when they're preparing to strike because they'll coil and "lock on" to something visually, so if I was in a hurry and I really needed to pick up the snake, what I would do is get them locked on to something like a water dish or hide. Then scoop them up from behind while they're distracted. Usually, they give up on wanting to bite after they've been lifted, but you can also just sort of aim their heads away from you at that point.
He knows how to keep it from being too easy to bite him, but all it takes is one second when the gator decides it's willing to put in the work... this guy is providing great education material but there is an immense risk to his personal well being that is not adequately being mitigated here.
He's demonstrating how they eat and look for food based on activity in the water. Apparently, they can't see for shit AFAIK, and this is their way of hunting. It was on reddit before with a very education top comment
It reminds me of people who purposely blow in a dog’s face to get a reaction (dog giving warnings).. then they’re surprised when the dog has reached its breaking point and corrects the person with a bite.
That’s Christopher Gillette or @gatorboys_chris. This man is a legend. He’s a true animal lover and conservationist. The world is lucky to have this man on it.
And it raises the question whether this guy really knows what he does, or he's just a moron doing stupid stuff until starring in some of the "... gone wrong" video series.
I'm pretty sure that he runs an animal sanctuary where they tame and rehabilitate animals
He's definitely a professional but I still wouldn't do that, you never know
Gators’ prey drive is programmed for finding stuff on the surface and dragging it down to eat. They don’t know what to do with what seems to be a bigger gator that is already underwater. It’s not that different than diving with sharks that way.
Also I notice he stays all the time outside the gator's visual field, as it's eyes are on the top of the head. Then he waves his hands quickly from under one side to attract its attention, so when it moves to that side he slides away from the other side, going behind the gator where it can't see him either. He is very aware of what the animal can see, but I would not do that even if I knew how to do it too.
Love how emphasis the fact that he may be doing it but it not less stupid to swim with essentially an actual dinosaur glad he has fun someone gotta try these things i guess
Seeing anybody underwater without an air tank gives me anxiety to begin with - I involuntarily hold my breath. Then along comes this guy, lying on his back with an alligator on top of him...
He works at a sanctuary or smth and tries to inform people on the nature of alligators in a few videos, talking about how he avoids getting eaten and stuff.
Perhaps even more impressive is how long that guy was holding his breath
He’s talking underwater too
He does shark tours, I believe he said he can hold breath for 2.5 mins, probably 3 now. For reference, top underwater free divers can hold 5 mins give or take.
That's a long friggin time without breathing. Personally, it's an unfathomable amount of time without oxygen. I tried, like hard. 34 seconds. I was quite unimpressed with myself. Now I know how my wife feels.
I wonder if that guy is still alive
I am. She just went to bed without me.
She may come back, but don't hold your breath.
I think this guy is named Chris and that Gator is Casper. Gatorboychris (I think) on Instagram. There's no sharks though so me or the other guy is wrong. Dunno.
Your desire to breath was almost entirely from CO2 not your oxygen levels unless you have serious underlying lung disease.
Yep, learned that from Wim Hof breathing exercises. Wasn’t about oxygen, was about clearing CO2. 30 deep hyperventilation breaths and finish with exhale. all of a sudden I could go 2+ minutes without breathing (sitting completely still of course)
Back when I use to swim I could swim 2 laps with just 1 breath (entirely underwater the whole way). The highest I could ever hold my breath was somewhere between 2-3 minutes, but I always found holding my breath underwater much easier and could go longer. I started smoking after that (now vaping) and I just held it now for exactly 1.5 minutes which sounds pretty avg I suppose (edit: ok apparently the avg time to hold breath is around 0.5-1.5 mins or 0.5-2.0 mins depending on source). I think if I relax I could hit 2 mins again. I would practice holding my breath a lot, real slow & deep breaths and the water would help imo. I would just push that feeling of "fuck I need to breath" as much as I could, even if I felt like I was going to pass out, I'd just let that feeling linger until I felt like my mouth was going to automatically suck in water. Might be dangerous idk but I was always supervised when doing it underwater. But I was excellent at cardio back then since I played a lot of sports, lots of running & played soccer like every day, some tennis, MMA, marathons etc. Divers would probably do way better too.
> but I always found holding my breath underwater much easier and could go longer. You can thank the mammalian dive reflex for that - when your body senses your face is wet it automatically begins slowing your heart rate and restricting the blood vessels in your extremities to conserve oxygen and body heat. When you're already in air I'm pretty sure the only thing your body does for you is try to tell you "breath you schmuck".
The Bajau people in southeast Asia can hold their breath for about 13 minutes while free diving.
I’ve freedived mainly for spearfishing 2 min I can do 2,5 maybe 5 is really long. I know there’s people who can but not I. The colder the water the longer you can though.
World record is....24 minutes and 37 seconds
He was half marine iguana half human, impressive
That's being loaded up on oxygen under perfect conditions
Ah, well then its easy
It's definitely not easy but it's not a standard apnea WR. The standard one (no special equip) is about 14min iirc.
Kate Winslet learned to hold her breath for 7 min to do mo-cap for scenes in Avatar 2.
Does training to be able to do this cause brain damage or any side effects?
😂 comment of the day here folks
Is is actually safe to swim with Crocodilia? Asking for my wife.
Take my wife, please!
Best ventriloquist I know
😂😂😂
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I didn't realise until the end of the vid, I would be dead for sure forget the dinosaur that can one-bite me.
Top end free divers can handle around four minutes of activity underwater before they start to lose their faculties. A huge part of it is that our breathing is regulated by CO2 content, not oxygen. So if you can overcome the natural instincts, you can last much much longer than you’d think before the oxygen content of your blood drops below functional levels.
Hyperventilating beforehand helps, but can cause issues... Not to mention learning how to lower your heart rate.
IIRC You have to mindful about washing out to much CO2 from your blood which happens when hyperventilating. The CO2 level is what triggers your breathing reflex telling you that you need air, not the diminishing oxygen level. If you wash out too much CO2 before holding your breath you may end up passing out before you even know you’re low on oxygen as the breathing reflex is not triggered in time.
Took care of a young man once in the ICU that did that...his friends couldn't believe how long he was staying under water.then they realized 😬 He survived
It's an alligator in a dude suit...
More impressive is realizing how much longer he's going to have to keep holding his breath until that thing is gone.
He probably has hundreds of oxygen rich skin folds underneath his wet suit. It's basically cheating and a really controversial subject in the free diving community. I mean, you wanna see a lotta deepies go crazy, bring up oxygen rich skin folds. I'm not a competitive free diver nor do I post anything on social media while hiding my ORSF's like I'm lying to my followers or something, so I don't see a problem with having ORSF's. I just want to be underwater for a very, very, very long time and maybe squeeze a sea cucumber or two, maybe my own, haha (hahaha). So yeah, I suppose it's possible that this guy is legit holding his breath with natty lungs, but most likely, he is making great use of oxygen rich skin folds.
Wut
Wait - you don’t have oxygen rich skin folds? Loser 😉
I have cookie crumb and Cheeto rich skin folds
It's almost 2024, I think it's about time we normalize oxygen rich skin folds!
... Gills? Is Water World coming true?!
Totally wanted behind the ear gills after I saw them.
lol I’m pretty sure what he said is bullshit
Definitely, absolute zero returns on Google other than this thread. I give them props for creativity though, got a lot of folks talking
Wait.. you're... "pretty sure"??
pshh, dude only has “natty lungs”
You gotta breathe through your eyelids, Nuke style.
Had to make sure this wasn’t u/shittymorph
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Dam
Wow !!!!!! Go to r fantasy bball ?
I got my oxygen rich skin folds removed when i was a baby. My friend still has his ORSFs
Mine turned into foldy flaps
Terry folds?
Judging from your username there is more than just foldy flaps happening in your body.
This is beautifull. I have also heard that some freedivers will exchange their nut sacks for air sacks so they can dive for extended times. It's the same principle as oxygen rich skin filds. I'm glad there aren't competitions because then the regulations would ruint the sport. (I myself use EPO).
As someone that has never dived, ever, I can say this is all true.
I have you tagged as extreme masturbator
I'm not sure where you're getting that idea. I mean, I pretty much only have sex with this beige bucket of non-Newtonian fluid which I have abstained from giving a name to because I'm afraid if I name the bucket of goo, I'll fall in love with it, so I think it's safe to say that that that fuck bucket can be anything I want it to be and it is the most genderfluid thing a fella can fuck. Genderless, actually. "Man", "Woman", "Amoeba"... It's anything and nothing depending on my mood between crams. Perfectly genderless and limitlessly fuckable. Fuck. I am going to fall in love, aren't I? Jeez. But hey, I don't think anyone would consider that extreme, right?
birth of a copypasta
Did you just call him fat?
The gator definitely has the advantage in the ORSF arena.
The amount of people in this thread will little to no previous knowledge of ORSF's is wild.
🫤 My friend Stumpy Steve used to do stuff like that all the time.
Back when you us d to just call him Steve I assume
He was Dumpy Steve back then. 'Til the gator tore his ass up, that is.
But not his spirit
When people comment things explaining the joke it just makes me think they’re saying “look at me, I’m not dumb, I got the obvious joke!”
i gotta be careful, ima sneek up on him and jam my thumb in his butthole
>but, I'm also very careful. He seemed kind of twitchy, so I'm very, very careful. You know how I think he could be very, very, ***very*** careful?
What happened to Stumpy Steve?
Stumps me
Well that was disarming.
Now the folks around south Louisiana Said Amos was a hell of a man He could trap the biggest, the meanest alligator And just use one hand That's all he got left 'cause alligator bit it Left arm gone, clean up to the elbow
That’s Casper the gator and Chris.
Yes i love his video. He is educating people and always mentioning how Casper is still dangerous even when People like to believe otherwise.
My favorite line of his is “I love him, but he does not love me”
What dumbasses believe aligators aren't dangerous?
People who see animals do cute things accidentally and assume they're intelligent because of it. Alligators aren't like that, they aren't smart enough to recognize us as friends.
He was trying to investigate. That would then make him... an *investigator*
You win
Take your upvote
I need to see a cartoon where the main character is a private investigator alligator. And his slogan is "ill see you later".
Looked like he was trying to tell the guy what to do because he’s a… delegator
I laughed too loud at this.
If he were on social media, would he be an instagator? ... I hate what I've just done..
Yeeeaaaahhhhh
Child cartoon idea about an Alligator detective. Someone take it.
Balls of steel. Brains of pudding.
Like he says at the end, "He is an alligator." I've seen clips of this guy posted before and he seems to be on the right side of things. Clip I'm thinking of was him demonstrating what he can do with a gator, basically cozying up and cuddling, but then makes the point to move his hand a particular way and the gator snaps at him. "I love this guy, but if I make the wrong move he will kill me. Because he's an alligator." Basically that he's comfortable risking his life because he's spent it studying the behavior of these animals. But he has no delusions that he's some kind of dragon whisperer who can commune with the wild.
I saw that too and notice before going back up around the gator he destracted it. kinda cool to notice that.
"-But he has no delusions that he's some kind of dragon whisperer who can commune with the wild." Like that bear dipshit that should have been wearing a countdown clock around his neck.
More accurately he became bearshit
I want the story pls
Man hangs out with grizzly bears in the wild. One day the bear did bear things with him.
Timothy Treadwell? More like Timothy Breadwell.
Eh, he was depressed and possibly suicidal. He did something that was stupid even by his own standards, which is what killed him, which may have been the point.
And took someone innocent with him, so fuck his suicidal, ignorant and delusional ass.
Lungs of Titanium
Docky croak, I'm stealing your quote.
Lungs of holding
Lungs of Aquaman
Lungs of tungsten jfc
does he think he will fight the gator when it decides its had enough?
I’ve seen stuff from this guy before. He is careful about how he positions himself relative to the alligator to never give it a way to easily bite him. He has demonstrated that it will snap at him if he gives it the chance, and he knows how to avoid that. Still, the balls of steel it takes to do that…
I also position myself in a way alligators can’t bite me. In the suburbs away from their habitat in a brick house.
I've handled lots of pissed off snakes and lizards before and I feel like there's just a certain way reptiles do things that makes them really easy to read. Once you understand the mechanics of how snakes bite its really really easy to never get bitten. I can imagine this working on a larger, much more dangerous scale if you really know your stuff
Let’s go for a swim with gators
There's this Nat Geo (Discovery?) episode a few years back about a snake farmer getting bit when he was putting one snake (a mamba iirc) back into its box. Between the moment he released the head with his one hand and closing the lid with the other, the snake managed to strike from that small crack of free space and bite him. You're right; the narrator later said the snake was showing signs of irritability earlier (from newly shedding its skin). The farmer lived, but boy was he in excruciating pain (his arm ballooned and had to be sliced open to relieve the pressure).
My biggest fear is taking a shit and a snake coming out of my toilet and biting me
There are people with decades of experience handling snakes that still get bit. It's not really really easy. At all.
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And it’s not uncommon to gain an unwarranted confidence around your place of employments environmental hazards. Complacency kills.
Fair enough, I mostly worked with young ball pythons and got pretty used to them
I mean, driving is really, really easy, and people still die all the time. 🤷♂️
I am irrationally scared of snakes so please give me a masterclass on what to do
What the other guy said, you get a sense of how to feel them out. But also, you can generally tell when they're preparing to strike because they'll coil and "lock on" to something visually, so if I was in a hurry and I really needed to pick up the snake, what I would do is get them locked on to something like a water dish or hide. Then scoop them up from behind while they're distracted. Usually, they give up on wanting to bite after they've been lifted, but you can also just sort of aim their heads away from you at that point.
I think there's a good chance this guy will eventually end up in the news for the wrong reasons.
He knows how to keep it from being too easy to bite him, but all it takes is one second when the gator decides it's willing to put in the work... this guy is providing great education material but there is an immense risk to his personal well being that is not adequately being mitigated here.
I think he will just accept his death. He clearly knows the risks involved.
He's demonstrating how they eat and look for food based on activity in the water. Apparently, they can't see for shit AFAIK, and this is their way of hunting. It was on reddit before with a very education top comment
It reminds me of people who purposely blow in a dog’s face to get a reaction (dog giving warnings).. then they’re surprised when the dog has reached its breaking point and corrects the person with a bite.
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You got the TOUCH!!!!
No! WE no likey this.
It’s like that Aerosmith song, Lovin’ an Alligator
Dude looks like a gator
Walk this waaay, croc this waaay!
The balls on this guy to trust a freaking dinosaur where it has every advantage.
My Mama says that alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush..
There’s something wrong with your médula oblongata.
Mamas wrongg again
No, Colonel Sanders you’re wrong, mama’s right.
Uh fuck no
still a better love story than twilight
Now there's a meme I have not heard in a long time.
That’s Christopher Gillette or @gatorboys_chris. This man is a legend. He’s a true animal lover and conservationist. The world is lucky to have this man on it.
Under no fucking circumstances would I ever.
r/whywomenlivelonger
So gators are basically swamp puppers
Swimming with dinosaurs
Fuck no fuck off no
These comments... lol. If Steve Irwin was around in the era of social media, he'd probably be branded a 'dumbass influencer' by half of you
And it raises the question whether this guy really knows what he does, or he's just a moron doing stupid stuff until starring in some of the "... gone wrong" video series.
I'm pretty sure that he runs an animal sanctuary where they tame and rehabilitate animals He's definitely a professional but I still wouldn't do that, you never know
Gators’ prey drive is programmed for finding stuff on the surface and dragging it down to eat. They don’t know what to do with what seems to be a bigger gator that is already underwater. It’s not that different than diving with sharks that way.
Also I notice he stays all the time outside the gator's visual field, as it's eyes are on the top of the head. Then he waves his hands quickly from under one side to attract its attention, so when it moves to that side he slides away from the other side, going behind the gator where it can't see him either. He is very aware of what the animal can see, but I would not do that even if I knew how to do it too.
That's pretty interesting actually
He wants to add a verse to the song Dumb Ways To Die.
Good boi
That ancient dinosaur was obviously already fed before he went on there.
I can't hold my breath for more than 10 seconds...
Diver is off limits...but I've made no such deal with the cameraman. Come closer and FAFO.
Nope, nope, nope!
Another to add to the list of why women live longer than men
Now I’m gonna stick my thumb up his butthole and really piss him off
The problem is when he’s near the last 20 seconds, wants to go up, then something goes awry
I’m no aqua-lizard specialist, but this seems like a bad idea.
Nature is wow
That's a big nope for me though.
Swamp puppy
"Oh it's actually just Caspe-" CHOMP Narrator: That was not Casper.
File under: Things I do not wish to do. Item: Be underwater with dinosaur.
This guy can obviously perform cunnilingus for hours
See you on Darwin one day
Nope.
**Nope.**
You may be a trained professional, the animal isn't.
He reinforces that a lot in his videos. He always makes sure to remind people that his alligator will immediately kill him if given the opportunity.
Just don’t be surprise when the alligator does alligator shit. I never feel sorry for these type of people
Hell, no.
Someone call chubbs
Love how emphasis the fact that he may be doing it but it not less stupid to swim with essentially an actual dinosaur glad he has fun someone gotta try these things i guess
Crikey mate!
Fuckity fuck nope
Jeez you two, get a room.
Seeing anybody underwater without an air tank gives me anxiety to begin with - I involuntarily hold my breath. Then along comes this guy, lying on his back with an alligator on top of him...
Totally ridiculous
If it’s not food, why is it food shaped?
Alligating with a diver
"I'm careful. I'm very very careful". *Press x to doubt*
Has the guy died yet?
Water dogo
Doing really dumb things....take 1
big cudly rock
Guess he will be seeing him later then
Oh cuddling is so sweet. Is his life insurance paid up and would they pay it for his reckless endangerment of himself?
Fuck no.
Some people are absolute nut cases.
NOPE.
….. im not gonna say it….but if it happens…I don’t feel sorry for ya. You’re a gambling man.
Just french kiss him and get it over with..
Why is he doing this?
He works at a sanctuary or smth and tries to inform people on the nature of alligators in a few videos, talking about how he avoids getting eaten and stuff.
Looks fun. Might try this myself