{"id":2693,"date":"2011-04-11T11:11:08","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T16:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astroblastro.com\/?p=2693"},"modified":"2011-04-11T11:27:09","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T16:27:09","slug":"king-of-the-bubble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/?p=2693","title":{"rendered":"King Of The Bubble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2694\" title=\"Round and round in circles The contestants descend via a ladder and rise gracefully up to the surface emptying their lungs on the way\" src=\"http:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Round-and-round-in-circles-The-contestants-descend-via-a-ladder-and-rise-gracefully-up-to-the-surface-emptying-their-lungs-on-the-way-620x406.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Round-and-round-in-circles-The-contestants-descend-via-a-ladder-and-rise-gracefully-up-to-the-surface-emptying-their-lungs-on-the-way-620x406.jpg 620w, https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Round-and-round-in-circles-The-contestants-descend-via-a-ladder-and-rise-gracefully-up-to-the-surface-emptying-their-lungs-on-the-way-440x288.jpg 440w, https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Round-and-round-in-circles-The-contestants-descend-via-a-ladder-and-rise-gracefully-up-to-the-surface-emptying-their-lungs-on-the-way.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This photo was taken during the King of the Bubble contest in Brussles.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"text-align: justify;\"><p>&#8216;The divers compete to form the best bubbles &#8211; it is judged on things like the size, the shape, how perfect the ring is, and how many bubbles they can do in one breathe.<\/p>\n<p><span>&#8216;You have to blow to expel the air and it will form a bubble in a ring.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8216;There&#8217;s no perfect technique for it though, you just have to find your own tricks and see what works.&#8217; \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1353245\/King-Of-The-Bubble-Divers-blow-rings-air-Belgiums-underwater-competition.html?printingPage=true\">-The Guardian<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Peter showed me how to do this while skin diving at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kvncsy.com\/?p=2598\">Grotto.<\/a> (Pretty much look up and say,<em> &#8220;too.&#8221;) <\/em>You don&#8217;t even have to be very deep for it to work. You\u00a0certainly don&#8217;t need to be submerged in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=j8fO-qRbPsA\">deepest indoor pool in the world<\/a>,\u00a0but it wouldn&#8217;t hurt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Most people have probably seen footage like this by now, but I can&#8217;t post this unless I\u00a0acknowledge\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TMCf7SNUb-Q&amp;feature=player_detailpage#t=9s\">the superiority of dolphins<\/a> in this field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This photo was taken during the King of the Bubble contest in Brussles. &#8216;The divers compete to form the best bubbles &#8211; it is judged on things like the size, the shape, how perfect the ring is, and how many bubbles they can do in one breathe. &#8216;You have to blow to expel the air&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[242,290,291],"class_list":["post-2693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-scuba","tag-skin-diving","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2693"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2700,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693\/revisions\/2700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}