Diver sets record by holding breath underwater for 15 minutes

1. Zoom in Tom Sietas starting world record attempt for longest underwater breath hold 2. Pan from camera to Sietas inside tank with talk show US TV hosts Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa standing by 3. Pull out from stopwatch to member of Sietas' team 4. Zoom in to clock by Sietas in tank 5. Cutaway audience 6. Zoom in Sietas breaking record 7. Cutaway camera 8. Pull out Sietas standing up in tank, raising arms over his head 9. Pull out from world record certificate to Sietas and hosts getting covered with confetti 10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Tom Sietas, Guinness World Record holder: "It's always the beginning, when I'm a little bit worried because you never know how much air you get inside, how you feel about the blood pressure and all that, so after the first two minutes I felt quite confident." 11. Mid of Sietas being interviewed 12. SOUNDBITE: (German) Tom Sietas, Guinness World Record holder: "I was so happy that I was here, that the audience enjoyed the show and that I achieved such a great time." 13. Zoom in Sietas holding certificate, with Philbin congratulating him 14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Regis Philbin, talk show host: "Well it was very exciting to tell you the truth and it was quite serious too. We had an ambulance parked right on our garage, we had a couple of doctors here, couple of divers watching every move he made and it was full of tension I thought, until we got near the end and then you could see he was going to make it okay." 15. Zoom into Guinness World Records representative and Sietas, holding certificate STORYLINE: A German diver broke his own Guinness world record for holding his breath underwater for over fifteen minutes. On the US morning talk show, 'Live with Regis and Kelly,' Tom Sietas of Hamburg, Germany set a new Guinness World Record for a breath held underwater. He lasted 15.02 minutes; the previous Guinness record, also held by Sietas, was 14.25 minutes. The 30-year-old free-diver has been practicing breath-holds for eight years, but this was his first attempt in the US. "It's always the beginning, when I'm a little bit worried because you never know how much air you get inside, how you feel about the blood pressure and that, so after the first two minutes I felt quite confident," said Sietas. Sietas received oxygen for about 15 minutes after entering the water tank, to help fill his lungs with as much oxygen as possible before the attempt. Talk show host Regis Philbin said he was a little nervous watching Sietas hold his breath for so long. "It was very exciting to tell you the truth and it was quite serious too. We had an ambulance parked right in our garage, we had a couple of doctors here, couple of divers watching every move he made and it was full of tension I thought, until we got near the end and then you could see he was going to make it okay," said Philbin. Sietas holds one other Guinness record, 130 metres (427 feet) for the longest free dive. Keyword-wacky Keyword-world records You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/c7d53e9ebe8f4d617aaf1af1dbfbc91e Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork

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