{"id":1010978,"date":"2022-03-04T21:39:04","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T21:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/04\/watch-freediver-takes-351-foot-walk-underwater-for-guinness-world-record\/"},"modified":"2022-03-04T21:39:04","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T21:39:04","slug":"watch-freediver-takes-351-foot-walk-underwater-for-guinness-world-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/04\/watch-freediver-takes-351-foot-walk-underwater-for-guinness-world-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Freediver takes 351-foot walk underwater for Guinness World Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Freediver-takes-351-foot-walk-underwater-for-Guinness-World-Record.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"Ba8a9YmA1G8\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Longest underwater walk - Guinness World Records\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ba8a9YmA1G8?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">March 4 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> A Croatian freediver went for a walk underwater and broke a Guinness World Record by traveling more than 350 feet on a single breath.<\/p>\n<p>Guinness World Records said Vitomir Maricic took the record for longest underwater walk with one breath when he traversed a distance of 351 feet, .5 inch at the bottom of a pool.\n<\/p>\n<p>Maricic, who completed his walk in 3 minutes and 6 seconds, said he didn&#8217;t have to do much training for the record, as he was already an accomplished freediver and an expert in dynamic apnea, the art of holding one&#8217;s breath while moving.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a professional freediver I don&#8217;t really need to prepare that much for any breath hold record,&#8221; he said,&#8221; Maricic told Guinness.<\/p>\n<p>He said he is planning to break other breath-related world records &#8212; including bettering his own underwater walking feat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can do much more but this was a live event so I wanted to be careful and precise,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The record was previously held by fellow Croatian freediver Boris Milosic, who walked a distance of 314 feet, 11.5 inches in March 2020.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 4 (UPI) &#8212; A Croatian freediver went for a walk underwater and broke a Guinness World Record by traveling more than 350 feet on a single breath. Guinness World Records said Vitomir Maricic took the record for longest underwater walk with one breath when he traversed a distance of 351 feet, .5 inch at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1010979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}