The longest whale dive ever recorded clocks in at almost 4 hours

By Michael Le Page

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A Cuvier’s beaked whale has made the longest dive by any mammal ever recorded, lasting 3 hours and 42 minutes. That smashes the outdated file of 2 hours and 43 minutes.

The file has disturbed biologists. “Here is extraordinarily a bit of longer,” says Nicola Speedy at Duke College in North Carolina. “It’s rather supreme.”

The file for folk holding their breath underwater is 24 minutes, and this entails floating motionless. In difference, whales are highly energetic within the heart of dives. “They are …