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How long can you survive without air?
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Three minute@warm te: At normal warm surrounding three minutes, but there are exceptions with very low temaratures when body goes into low metabolism and the need for oxygen is diminished in hypothermic state.Examples are drowning in cold water when people are known to survive over an hour, some people can hold theiir breath for ten minutes under waterwithout passing out.
Answered 8/26/2012
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Three minute@warm te: At normal warm surrounding three minutes, but there are exceptions with very low temaratures when body goes into low metabolism and the need for oxygen is diminished in hypothermic state.Examples are drowning in cold water when people are known to survive over an hour, some people can hold theiir breath for ten minutes under waterwithout passing out.
Answered 8/26/2012
5.6k views
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