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One time I was around 30m deep and heard a loud bang like an explosion, nearly shat myself! Went up to the surface, nothing in sight, no boats, even at a distance. That was super creepy! Only thing it might have been is a distant earthquake.

This is now my story for what it was!

🤣 it depends, doesn’t it? If you take your time and go into it slowly, then you are freediving, not struggling as much 😊

Good question!

As a beginner, the urge to breathe would come super early, which is a good thing, keeps you super safe.

As you progress you get a more fine tuned sense of your body and its reactions and your brain adapts to lower O2 / higher CO2, as well as the feeling of freediving itself.

So ideally you don’t get a panic or urge to breathe, you just intuitively know when to turn.

Not aware of something specific to Avatar (although I am suspicious that the actors may have been breathing pure O2 to help them do longer times), but NatGeo of all places has posted some really bad sensationalized crap about the Bajau, that they can hold their breaths for 10 minutes etc 🤷🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️