Educationally, individuals are considered to be deaf-blind when the combination of their hearing and sight loss causes such severe communication and other developmental and educational needs that they require significant and unique adaptations in their educational programs.
The world record for holding your breath after inhaling pure oxygen is now Blaine's â 17 minutes and 4 seconds. The record without the pure oxygen, which Blaine failed to break during an attempt last year in Manhattan's Lincoln Center, is 8 minutes and 58 seconds.
David Blaine: How I Held My Breath for 17 Minutes. As a little light science-ish fare for Friday, here's a TED Talk in which David Blaine explains his quest to hold his breath for a really, really long time. He goes through a variety of possible trick techniques (none of which worked), and discusses his much-publicized failure to escape from handcuffs during his Drowned Alive feat.