Human Feats
The limits of human endurance, speed and survival — the fastest runners, deepest divers and highest climbers.
Record
The Deepest Free Dives
Herbert Nitsch reached 253.2 metres on a single breath in the No-Limits freediving discipline in 2012.
RecordThe Fastest Human Sprinters
Usain Bolt holds the 100 m world record at 9.58 seconds, set in Berlin in 2009.
RecordThe Most Distant Human-Made Object
Voyager 1 is the most distant human-made object, over 24 billion kilometres from Earth and still transmitting.
RecordThe Rarest Blood Type
Rh-null, or "golden blood," is the rarest known blood type, found in only a few dozen people worldwide.
WonderUsain Bolt
The Jamaican sprinter who holds the 100 m and 200 m world records and won eight Olympic gold medals.