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There are a couple reasons why you shouldn't hold your breath. First off, holding your breath trying to conserve air could lead to passing out. Slow breathing also helps you relax. Also if you hold your breath at depth and head to the surface, the air in your lungs can expand causing an over expansion of your lungs. A very serious and sometimes life threatening injury.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 13y agoIt is not safe to hold your breath while surfacing from Scuba diving because of the change of atmospheric pressure as your depth shallows. Holding your breath could cause severe damage to your body and could be fatal. Atmospheric pressure increases the deeper underwater you go, compressing the air in your system. So, as you surface - that air will expand. Decompression stops are part of safe scuba diving practices. This allows the air within the lungs and body to slowly expand and readjust to the decreasing pressure from a dive. Even in the event of an emergency ascent, a diver should not hold their breath but slowly exhale as they surface - exhausting all the air in their lungs by the time they surface.
Should the diver surface from depth without exhaling, the air in the lungs will expand and can cause sever damage to the point of a lung (or both lungs) rupturing.
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∙ 14y agoCannot. You have to breath normally with the tank gas. Keep on breathing.
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How can you do under water diving while sex?
You'll either have to hold your breath or have a SCUBA tank.
How can a scuba-diver breath underwater?
From a regulator attached to a scuba tank.
Is scuba diving in mid air possible?
seriously? it is not diving and you don't scuba to breath in air.
Is there a kid that can breath under water?
With SCUBA gear, yes. Without it, no.
How can a scuba diver suffer an air emoblism?
from holding their breath and ascending.
Why scuba diver wear oxygen tank?
so they can breath underwater
Why is a tank a good container for scuba divers?
Tanks are used to hold air like you breath above water. They do go thru a filtering process that removes the water and other things in air that can harm a diver. Scuba air from a reputable source is very clean and dry.
Why do scuba divers carry oxygen cylinders?
So that they may breath underwater.
When was Hold Your Breath created?
Hold Your Breath was created in 2008.
Do lions hold their breath?
No lions don't hold their breath.
How do you get a child to pop their ears?
ok first you get a child to take a deep breath and then he/she must hold his/her nose and blow hope this is useful to you
What happens if you hold your breath to long?
Eventually, you will pass out. But don't worry-- your body's natural instinct quickly kicks in and you breath again. You wake up after a few minutes feeling fairly OK.
