Fancy living underwater? Don't hold your breath
Fabien Cousteau and his team of oceanographers spent 31 days living and working underwater, breaking the previous record of 30 days. But why? And what was it like?
Rob and Finn discuss living underwater - and explain some related vocabulary.
This week's question:
What is the longest time a human being has held their breath underwater?
a) 12 minutes
b) 18 minutes
c) 22 minutes
Listen to the programme to find out the answer.
Listen
Underwater living
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Vocabulary
- don't hold your breath
phrase meaning: "don't expect that a particular good thing will happen"
- laboratory
room or building with scientific equipment for doing tests
- oceanographer
someone who studies the oceans
- conservation
protection of plants and animals
- undersea
below the surface of the sea
- final frontier
the last place for humans to explore
- marine
relating to the sea
- freeze-dried
(of food) quickly frozen and dried to preserve it
- astronaut
a person who has been trained to travel in space
- decompressing
reducing your body pressure after being underwater
