The physical capabilities of the human body are limitless. While experts are looking for scientific confirmation of this fact, ordinary residents of our planet are moving from words to deeds and setting records that are simply impossible to believe. It would seem, who can drift a car for 8 hours in a row, hold a breath for 24 minutes, or jump without a parachute from a height of 25,000 feet (7,6 km)? Some athletes have shaken the whole world with their physical capabilities – meet the top 5 unthinkable feats that will take your breath away!
Continuous 8-hour drift
In 2018, driving instructor Johan Schwartz became the record holder for non-stop 8-hour car drifting in a BMW M5. To be able to set such a record without stopping for refueling, BMW specialists figured out how to fill the car’s tank while driving. To do this, another car was engaged in a parallel drift, and the stuntman sitting in it leaned out of the window to connect the hose to Schwartz’s BMW and fill in the required amount of gasoline. The show was truly mesmerizing and full of thrill, the emotions could be compared perhaps only to those you get by playing at the ggbet casino. 232,5 miles (374 km), 8 hours, and 5 refuelings – Schwartz managed to beat the previous record when the drifting distance was 130,4 miles (210 km) less.
Longest breath hold – 24 minutes 11 seconds
According to the medical data, a regular person is able to live without oxygen for just 5 minutes, while a trained diver – for 9 minutes. When this time expires, the body undergoes irreversible changes leading to death. However, it seems that freedivers have never heard about this fact. How else we can explain that in 2016, a Spanish diver Aleix Segura lasted underwater without oxygen for 24 minutes and 3 seconds, and already in 2 years, 54-year-old Croatian Budimir Sobat beat this record, staying without air for 8 seconds longer.
Before diving underwater, daring athletes breathed intensely for a while to fill their bodies with oxygen. What’s more, they stayed completely motionless during the dive. But even such “tricks” cannot make this record any less incredible.
Insane cliff jump from a 193-feet (58.8 m) height
Laso Schaller is a Swiss cliff diver who set a breathtaking high diving record in 2015. He jumped into the water from a picturesque Cascata del Salto cliff in the Alps, rising 193 feet above the ground, which is comparable to the height of a 19-story building. Several ionizers were pre-immersed in water to soften the surface where Schaller was about to land. But still, the idea remained extremely dangerous as the expected speed of fall was about 74,5 m/h (120 km/h). As a result, the diver even exceeded this figure by 1,8 m/h (3 km/h), but thanks to the correct entry into the water, he managed to succeed and suffered only a minor leg injury.
Heaviest military aircraft pull
At St. Paul’s Church in Ontario, there is one surprisingly strong priest, 51-year-old Kevin Fast, who has been involved in sports since the age of 12 and regularly sets powerlifting records. The most incredible of his feats was done in 2009 when Kevin decided to move a huge military aircraft named CC-177 Globemaster III with a weight of 189 tonnes. In the end, the man beat his own expectations and not just budged the aircraft but moved it for a distance of 28 feet (8.8 m).
Highest parachute-free jump
Luke Akins, an American parachutist and skydiver, set an incredible world record by making a parachute-free jump from a height of 25,000 feet (7.6 kilometers). To survive, Akins had to land in a 40-yard-long net, stretched above the ground using construction cranes. After two minutes of death-defying fall, Akins successfully landed into the net. The accomplishment of this crazy idea was broadcast online, and millions of people watched it with bated breath.