Internationally accomplished Spanish adventure racer Antonia de la Rosa breaks a Guinness World Record...
Jacqueline Windh / 10.02.2009
On February 1st, on prime-time on Spanish TV channel Telecinco, Antonio, along with Sonia Matesanz and Esperanza Ruis, beat the existing Guinness World Record for underwater kissing, before more than 3 million spectators.
The challenge consisted of Antonio remaining underwater in a pool while Sonia and Esperanza swam up and down from the surface, giving him air via mouth-to-mouth respiration. The difficultyin this is that the air that they are giving him contains an elevated percentage of CO2.
The total time the team managed was 7 minutes and 1 second, beating the previous world record of 6 minutes 13 seconds (also held by Antonio!).
Always in the centre of the action, SleepMonsters offers you this exclusive interview with the new record holder:
SM: How did you train for this, and when did you start?
Antonio: I’ve been swimming underwater since I was thirteen, and as a firefighter I have gone into apnea (the cessation of breathing) many times. But the important thing is the capacity to use a small amount of air efficiently, an ability that I think adventure racers have - small oxygen consumption for great effort.
SM: I meant, more like, how did you train for the kissing part?
Antonio: Ha ha, I don’t need to practice kissing, I’ve had lots of girlfriends, hee hee hee.
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