{"id":16475,"date":"2026-08-15T10:05:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T10:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/?p=16475"},"modified":"2026-08-15T10:05:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T10:05:52","slug":"the-freediver-who-held-his-breath-for-24-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/?p=16475","title":{"rendered":"The Freediver Who Held His Breath for 24 Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"justify-start\">\n<nav class=\"align-left col-span-full mb-base\" data-pom-e2e-test-id=\"breadcrumbs\"\/>\n<p>The latest Long Read on the Outside Podcast takes listeners inside the obsessive world of Budimir \u0160obat, the Serbian diver who held his breath longer than anyone in history. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-body\">\n<p>Published August 15, 2026 03:34AM<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Earlier this year, writer Sean Williams profiled Budimir Sobat, a freediver from Croatia with a superpower straight out of the <em>X-Men<\/em> movies. Sobat, 60, can calm his body and mind to a state that resembles death\u2014his body systems slow and use barely any oxygen. This state allows Sobat to hold his breath for almost a quarter of an hour. Sobat has spent years perfecting his craft; nothing has aided his ability more than his daugther Sasa, whose health concerns require round-the-clock care from her parents. Williams story,\u00a0<em>The Man Who Held His Breath for 24 Minutes,\u00a0<\/em>took readers into Sobat\u2019s complicated world. His story is our latest Long Read on the Outside Podcast.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><span hidden=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/outdoor-adventure\/water-activities\/podcast-breath-hold\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Long Read on the Outside Podcast takes listeners inside the obsessive world of Budimir \u0160obat, the Serbian diver who held his breath longer than anyone in history. Published August 15, 2026 03:34AM Earlier this year, writer Sean Williams profiled Budimir Sobat, a freediver from Croatia with a superpower straight out of the X-Men<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wild-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}