"Istanbul: Turkish man breaks underwater record
Sunday, May 15 2005 @ 11:39 PM Central Daylight Time
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A former Turkish marine stayed underwater for 121 hours and 35 minutes, breaking a world record, on Sunday.
Namik Ekin, a former Turkish marine, stayed underwater for 121 hours and 35 minutes, setting a new world record.
Following the end of his ordeal in a swimming pool of a mall in Istanbul on Sunday, Ekin said he faced great challenges starting from the first day, adding, 'I had earache on the first day and suffered from pains in hernial disk. I lived through an ordeal but the worst was the second and the fourth days. It was exactly, 'no pain, no gain' '."
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