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.
Did he really hold his breath underwater for a staggering 17 minutes? Blaine himself claims that he performed this record-breaking 2008 stunt through rigorous training: gradually lengthening the amount of time he was able to spend underwater and pushing his body to previously unexplored limits.