/oss/taxonomy/term/7710/all en /oss/article/student-contributors-did-you-know/how-deep-can-humans-really-go <p>Up until the late 1960s, physiologists believed that the maximum depth a person could descend to was determined by the depth at which <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.162.3857.1020?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%20%200pubmed">their total lung capacity (TLC) was compressed to the same volume as their residual volume (RV)</a> which is the smallest lung volume a person can breathe to.</p> Fri, 16 Aug 2024 03:34:15 +0000 Daniela Padres 10039 at /oss