here's what i got i'm going to run a mile completely under water and if i fail then
i'm dead so thanks to something called buoyant force heavy objects in water are
easier to lift because of the upward force of pressure but that is not the case with running
in fact it is much more difficult but i wanted to find out exactly how difficult
it would be so i went to a nearby track and i ran a mile for comparison two one go
how'd it do 1009. what no no that was a warm up do it again how about this time 1505.
god i'm not built for long distance we dwarves are natural sprinters so now that i had my mile
time of 10 minutes and 9 seconds it was time to hit the water the first obstacle was figuring out
a way to breathe underwater so i got this snorkel but the only problem with that was doesn't give me
too much wound above my head so to keep oxygen flowing to my mask i had to keep the top of my
head really close to the surface but keeping my feet on the ground was also an issue so basically
the problem right now is i can't keep my feet on the floor because us humans are full of air and
i just keep floating to the top so i got this 20 pound weighted vest this will hold me down don't
try this at home i'm just realizing now how stupid this is when i got in the water my feet stuck
right to the bottom this vest was the perfect weight to hold me down running was totally doable
and it felt really cool the only issue with this is that the floor of the lake isn't perfectly even
and this snorkel only gives me a few inches of wiggle room between my head and the surface so if
i step too deep my snorkel floods okay that part was a little scary um my mask was like full of
water although i was scared for my life i wasn't giving up it was just time to move on to the next
idea i saw a video from mr beast where he spent 24 hours underwater using one of these so the idea
here was to pull the plastic bin below the water so that way i'd have a pocket of air to breathe
just like mr beast but no matter how hard i pulled it just wasn't going down a lot harder than i
thought okay so two problems i can't even get this thing under the water and even then i keep running
out of air so to solve one of those problems i built this snorkel that's just gonna go here
and feed me constant air while i'm underwater but i still gotta figure out a way to keep it under so
i taped the snorkel on it which handles the oxygen problem this looks pretty sick but i still needed
some extra weight to hold the tub down then i remembered i still had the cement shoes in my car
from the time i did a triathlon and cement shoes hopefully this is enough weight to hold that thing
down so i taped one of the shoes to the top of the bin and gave it a shot jake gang for life the
snorkel was definitely working and i was getting sufficient oxygen and with the extra weight
i was getting so close to submerging the tub completely i'm almost under water but in the end
it just wasn't enough it's not working after all mr beast had a couple hundred pounds holding his
bin down at this point i was so desperate to run a mile under water that i grabbed an elliptical and
dragged it out into the lake just above my head i knew that it took me about 10 minutes to run a
mile on land and with the water slowing me down i would have to run on this elliptical for about 20
minutes to reach that goal by keeping my breath strong and steady i didn't have to go up for air
at all and it was taking all my strength to move the machine underwater i was moving so vigorously
that the elliptical shifted a couple feet deeper into the lake so i had to go down and drag it back
into place but i was back on track in no time then 20 minutes later i completed my mile which
was cool and all but i just wasn't satisfied i wanted to run a mile underwater on foot not
with the assistance of a machine so it was back to the drawing board all right this is my last ditch
effort i'm gonna build a super snorkel so first things first i had to cut some pieces of pipe so
i could make handles and a mouthpiece so it would work kind of like this and this next part is kind
of confusing but i made this floatation board to put the snorkel through so it would help keep
the top part of the snorkel upright and above the water then it was time for the real test
now this goes without saying do not attempt this ever
so in order to reach a mile i have to do 296 laps in this pool
even though it was moving at a smooth and steady pace this challenge was extremely intense
now this looked super cool and it felt like i was in that scene from pirates of the caribbean
but the reality of the situation was not cool at all see there's a reason why they
don't make long snorkels like this and that's because our lungs can't draw air when we're
deep in the water like this so every breath i took was taking all of my lung strength
so i was trying my best to stay in the shallower end because the deeper i go the harder it is
not to mention the stress of a possible leak in the tube and i you know
breathe in water even though it was tearing my lungs apart i was glad the super snorkel was
working and i was getting oxygen until i got a ton of water in my nose how far am i you're on
the 60th lap 60th yep oh my god i was just shy of a quarter mile and things were getting rough
my heart was pounding and my head was spinning due to lack of oxygen and then i slipped
as i was inhaling i lost my footing and i swallowed a ton of water so
although the snorkel is super cool and it works in really shallow water
my lockers feel like they're being ripped apart so that's all i got