14 DAY TRIAL // A man breaking the record for most time spent underwater shows us exactly how wrinkly our hands would get after subjecting them to lying in water for 10 days.
If you have ever spent a lot of time in the bathtub, then you know that your hands tend to get really wrinkled in the process.
HuffPost quotes biologist Carin Bondar, explaining that this occurs because of the excess tissue on our limbs.
“Skin on our hands and our feet tends to get coarse. We have extra layers of dead skin because our hands and our feet are so well used,” she explains.
This experiment has been performed by Tim Yarrow, who has managed to achieve a record for most time spent underwater by submersing himself in a tank in a South African mall, in 2002.
Said record has recently been featured on “Outrageous Acts Of Science," on the Science Channel and it is documented in the video below.
