German Diver Sets Breath-Holding Record: 22 Minutes, 22 Seconds

German Tom Sietas, 35, has a lung capacity 20 percent larger than average for a person his size. But still, if you added 20 percent to the longest time you’ve held your breath under water would you reach 22 minutes and 22 seconds? Sietas, competing in Changsha, China alongside former underwater breath-holding world record holder Ricardo Bahaia of Brazil, set what appears to be a new
 Guinness World Records mark by defeating Bahia’s 20:21 time by over two minutes.