Taylor mentions a child of two who
recovered after ten minutes' submersion; in another case a man
recovered after fourteen minutes' submersion. There is a case
reported in this country of a woman who was said to have been
submerged twenty minutes. Guerard quotes a case happening in
1774, in which there was submersion for an hour with subsequent
recovery; but there hardly seems sufficient evidence of this.
Green mentions submersion for fifteen minutes; Douglass, for
fourteen minutes; Laub, for fifteen minutes; Povall gives a
description of three persons who recovered after a submersion of
twenty-five minutes. There is a case in French literature,
apparently well authenticated, in which submersion for six
minutes was followed by subsequent recovery.
There have been individuals who gave exhibitions of prolonged
submersion in large glass aquariums, placed in full view of the
audience. Taylor remarks that the person known some years ago in
London as "Lurline" could stay under water for three minutes.
There have been several exhibitionists of this sort. Some of the
more enterprising seat themselves on an artificial coral, and
surrounded by fishes of divers hues complacently eat a meal while
thus submerged.
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