Stig Severinsen - wikipedia Stig Severinsen This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. ( February 2013 ) Stig Severinsen Severinsen in 2009. ( 1973 - 03 - 08 ) March 8, 1973 ( age 44 ) Aalborg, Denmark Occupation Freediver Stig Åvall Severinsen ( born March 8, 1973 ) is a Danish freediver. He is a four - time world freediving champion and holder of multiple Guinness World Records. He wrote Træk Vejret -- mere energi, mindre stress ( 2009 ), published in English in 2010 as Breatheology -- The Art of Conscious Breathing. Contents 1 Background 2 Career 2.1 AIDA Freediving World Records 3 See also 4 References 5 External links Background Severinsen has a degree in biology and a Ph. D. in medicine. He began experimenting with holding his breath as a child at the bottom of his parents ' pool. He started swimming at the age of 6 and was awarded National Champion four years in a row at 9, 10, 11 and 12. In 1993 -- 2003 he played Underwater Rugby, and was a member of the Danish national team. During university studies in Barcelona, Spain in 1998 -- 99, he played underwater hockey on the Spanish national team. A fascination with long breath holds under water drew him to the world of free diving. In 2010 he founded Breatheology - an online platform teaching optimal health and performance via breathing, breath holding and mental training techniques. Career Combining yoga and his knowledge of physiology in freediving, Severinsen became a record holder of four AIDA freediving world records. He achieved two Guinness World Records in 2010 : in March that year he swam 236 feet ( 72 meters ) under ice wearing only swimming trunks and goggles, exceeding Wim Hof 's record of March 2000 by 47.6 feet ( 14.5 meters ) ; and in April, after inhaling pure oxygen, he held his breath for 20 minutes and 10 seconds in a tank full of sharks at the Kattegat Centre in Grenaa. In May 2012 he was awarded the record of `` Longest time breath held voluntarily ( male ) '' by Guinness World Records for holding his breath for 22 minutes ; this record was achieved in a tank at the London School of Diving with the water cooled to 30 ° F ( - 1 ° C ). In April 2013 in Qorlortoq Lake in east Greenland, he set two new world records for `` longest swim underwater - breath held '' : 500 feet ( 152.4 meters ) while wearing a wetsuit and monofin, taking 2 minutes, 11 seconds, and the following day, 250 feet ( 76.2 meters ) wearing only swimming trunks. He announced that these would be his last record attempts and he would now concentrate on teaching. Severinsen was chosen `` The Ultimate Superhuman '' on the Discovery Channel programme Superhuman Showdown, and a documentary about him, Stig Severinsen : The Man Who Does n't Breathe, was produced for broadcast on Discovery and on Quest in the UK in October 2013. In Breatheology Severinsen proposes that through working with the breath, a link can be created between body and mind that enables a person to control stress, increase energy, perform better physically and mentally, alleviate pain and improve health. The online site Breatheology offers advice in form of articles and videos on how to become more healthy, increase athletic results, reduce stress and PTSD as well as recover and rehabilitate faster via various breathing and breath holding techniques. AIDA Freediving World Records Date Record Discipline Location 19 July 2003 166 m Dynamic Apnea without fins ( DNF ) Aarhus, Denmark 28 Sept 2003 61 m Constant Weight without fins ( CNF ) Puerto la Cruz, Venezuela 16 June 2007 225 m Dynamic Apnea ( DYF ) Aarhus, Denmark 7 July 2007 186 m Dynamic Apnea without fins ( DNF ) Maribor, Slovenia See also Underwater diving portal Wim Hof References ^ Jump up to : Jægesen Wilkens, Kristine ( 11 November 2013 ). `` Danmarks ekstreme fridykker vælger havet frem for kvinderne ''. Politiken ( in Danish ). ^ Jump up to : `` Dansk ekstremdykker slog verdensrekord under is ''. Jyllands - Posten ( in Danish ). Discovery Channel. 6 September 2013. Jump up ^ Weisz, Arnold ( 1 April 2010 ). `` Stig Åvall Severinsen holds breath for 20 minute 10 seconds, sets record ''. X-Ray Mag. Archived from the original on 2 February 2013. Jump up ^ `` Longest time breath held voluntarily ( male ) ''. Guinness World Records. Retrieved 27 March 2014. Jump up ^ Grenoble, Ryan ( 16 November 2012 ). `` Breath - Holding World Record : Stig Severinsen Stays Under Water For 22 Minutes ''. Huffington Post. Jump up ^ Voergaard, Peter ( 6 September 2013 ) ( 5 September 2013 ). `` Dansker har sat ny rekord i dykning ''. BT ( in Danish ). Jump up ^ Saxtorph Poulsen, Joachim ; Knakkergaard, Klaus ( 6 September 2013 ). `` Vild rekord : Dansker svømmer under Grønlands is '' ( in Danish ). TV 2. ^ Jump up to : Christoffersen, Elo ( 20 September 2013 ). `` Ny verdensrekord : 500 fod under Grønlands is '' ( in Danish ). Dagens.dk. ^ Jump up to : Lynch, Kevin ( 16 October 2013 ). `` Stig Severinsen sets world record double with pair of daring freedives beneath the ice ''. Guinness World Records. ^ Jump up to : Trolle, Mads ( 16 October 2013 ). `` Dansk vanvidsdykker svømmer 76 meter under isen - uden våddragt : Discovery viser på søndag Stig Åvall Severinsens imponerende rekord ''. Politiken ( in Danish ). Jump up ^ `` Stig Severinsen : The Man Who Does n't Breathe '' ( in Danish ). Discovery Channel ( Denmark ). Retrieved 27 March 2014. Jump up ^ McKie, N ( 2004 ). `` Freediving in cyberspace ''. Journal of the South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society. 34 : 101 -- 03. Retrieved 5 October 2013. External links www.breatheology.com Swimming Under Ice : New Guinness World Record Stig Severinsen - 22 Minutes Guinness World Record Breath Hold Freediving Activities Aquathlon ( underwater wrestling ) Apnoea finswimming Freediving Pearl hunting Spearfishing Underwater football Underwater hockey Underwater ice hockey Underwater rugby Underwater target shooting Competitions Nordic Deep Vertical Blue Disciplines Constant weight Constant weight without fins Free immersion Static apnea Dynamic apnea Dynamic apnea without fins No - limits apnea Equipment Diving mask Diving suit Fins Hawaiian sling Monofin Polespear Snorkel Speargun Water polo cap Freedivers Deborah Andollo Peppo Biscarini Sara Campbell Derya Can Göçen Goran Čolak Carlos Coste Robert Croft Mandy - Rae Cruickshank Yasemin Dalkılıç Leonardo D'Imporzano Şahika Ercümen Emma Farrell Francisco Ferreras Pierre Frolla Flavia Eberhard Mehgan Heaney - Grier Elisabeth Kristoffersen Loïc Leferme Enzo Maiorca Jacques Mayol Audrey Mestre Karol Meyer Stéphane Mifsud Alexey Molchanov Natalia Molchanova Dave Mullins Patrick Musimu Guillaume Néry Herbert Nitsch Umberto Pelizzari Annelie Pompe Michal Risian Stig Severinsen Tom Sietas Aharon Solomons Martin Štěpánek Walter Steyn Tanya Streeter William Trubridge Devrim Cenk Ulusoy Danai Varveri Hazards Barotrauma Deep - water blackout Drowning Hypercapnia Hypothermia Shallow - water blackout Historical Ama ( diving ) Octopus wrestling Skandalopetra diving Swimming at the 1900 Summer Olympics -- Men 's underwater swimming Organisations AIDA International SSI Australian Underwater Federation British Freediving Association CMAS Fédération Française d'Études et de Sports Sous - Marins Performance Freediving International Related Ama ( diving ) Haenyeo Snorkeling Submarine escape training facility Underwater diving Underwater sports Commons Glossary Portal Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stig_Severinsen&oldid=753829957 '' Categories : Living people 1973 births Free - divers Hidden categories : CS1 Danish - language sources ( da ) BLP articles lacking sources from February 2013 All BLP articles lacking sources Articles with hCards All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from March 2014 Use dmy dates from January 2011 Talk Contents About Wikipedia Dansk Français Edit links This page was last edited on 9 December 2016, at 12 : 51. 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Question: who holds the record for holding their breath
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