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Supergirl’s trailer reaction split between joy and ‘walking nightmare’ –
Saints be praised: a six-minute trailer for the new CBS TV series Supergirl is here, and it is extremely good.
Gone are the memories of the cult (and largely dreadful) 1984 film version starring a rather wet Helen Slater alongside Faye Dunaway chewing every piece of scenery in sight: the new Supergirl is kooky, charming and funny. Inevitably, Twitter was divided. A DC superhero show that was fun, frothy and where nobody looked anxious? What is this! Kara Jor-El fled the planet Krypton as a girl, and, like her cousin Superman, has grown up into a sweet, geeky character (played by Glee’s Melissa Benoist) who believes that wearing a pair of black plastic glassics is a cunning disguise. [Daily Telegraph] See Video of The Day
Calista Flockhart who plays Supergirl’s boss
Swiss freediver breaks world record for holding breath underwater –
Peter Colat, a Swiss freediver, has held his breath underwater for 19 minutes and 21 seconds, smashing the world record. Colat, 38, performed the feat in a water tank in St Gallen, Switzerland. The previous Guinness World Record for oxygen-assisted static apnea was 19 seconds shorter and was set by an Italian, Nicola Putignano, last May. Colat, an experienced diver from Zurich, said the first 12 minutes was no problem. He said: “I felt the first need to breathe very late, but because of this it was even stronger.” Under the Guinness rules he was allowed to inhale pure oxygen 10 minutes prior to his attempt. See List of the day
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Oxygen-assisted static apnea previous records
| Duration | Name | Date | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11:54 | Branko Petrović | 7 October 2014 | Dubai, UAE |
| 11:35 [2] | Stéphane Mifsud | 8 June 2009 | La Crau, France |
| 10:12 | Tom Sietas | 7 June 2008 | Athens, Greece |
| 10:04 | Stéphane Mifsud | 12 July 2007 | Hyères, France |
| 9:15 | Tom Sietas | 12 May 2008 | Mainz, Germany |
| 9:08 | Tom Sietas | 1 May 2007 | Hamburg, Germany |
| 9:04 | Herbert Nitsch | 13 December 2006 | Hurghada, Egypt |
| 9:00 | Tom Sietas | 29 August 2006 | Tokyo, Japan |
| 8:58 | Tom Sietas | 12 December 2004 | Eindhoven, Netherlands |
| 8:47 | Tom Sietas | 11 June 2004 | Hamburg, Germany |
| 8:06 | Martin Štěpánek | 3 July 2001 | Miami, USA[1] |
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