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  • 7/8/2025
How deep could you survive underwater? You might have seen Tom Cruise in the new Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning and wondered... can I do that? Here's what's real!

Let’s say you grab a tank full of regular air and start diving down…

You’d quickly pass the depth a typical open water scuba diver can go. But as you go deeper, something strange starts to happen…

We’re land animals! It’s amazing we can do this.

We have more videos about the deep ocean coming, so subscribe!

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00:00How deep could you survive underwater?
00:02Let's say you grab a tank full of regular air and you start diving down.
00:05You quickly pass the depth a typical open water scuba diver can go,
00:09but you go further and further.
00:11And as you go deeper, the pressure is causing the nitrogen in your air to become narcotic,
00:16and the oxygen is becoming toxic.
00:17So to go deeper, divers breathe a mixture that replaces some of both with helium,
00:22which doesn't react with our bodies but makes it easier to breathe.
00:25Shockingly, the deepest free diver has reached 214 meters on a single breath.
00:32But you pass them and you keep going,
00:33and you're now at the deepest anyone has ever gone with scuba gear.
00:37Extreme divers can get down here in only 15 minutes,
00:40but returning can take over 13 hours because you need to make sure that the remaining nitrogen
00:46in your blood doesn't bubble inside you as you ascend.
00:50We're land animals. It's amazing that we can do this.
00:53We have really cool videos coming about the deep ocean, so subscribe.

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