The record for the longest surfboard rideable by one person is 9.42 m (30 ft 10 in) and was achieved by Rico De Souza (Brasil) at Solemar Beach, Espirito Santo, Brazil, on 12 June 2009. The surfboard is called “Jamanta”, which is Portuguese slang for “Juggernaut”.
The largest surfboard, made by Nev Hyman (Australia), was 12 m (39 ft 4 in) long, 3 m (9 ft 10 in) wide and 30 cm (11.8 in) thick and was launched at Snapper Rocks, Queensland, Australia on 5 March 2005. It was an exact scaled up replica of Danny Wills’ board. It took 220 m of 10 oz glass, 300 litres (79 US gallons; 66 UK gallons) of resin and half a tonne (1,102 lb) of foam to make. The finished article weighed 800
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The first game made for the Neo Geo MVS arcade hardware, Magician Lord, was released in 1990, with the last game on the system, Samurai Shodown V Special, released in 2004, 14 years later. No other arcade system has been in active use for a longer period of time. Featured in Guinness World Records Gamer”s Edition 2010
The longest scuba submergence on one cylinder is 8 hr 20 min 38 sec by Jacobus Jacobs (South Africa) at All About Scuba, Rustenburg, South Africa, on 27 January 2007. One 12 litre scuba cylinder was used for this attempt.
The longest scuba submergence in a controlled environment is 220 hours by Khoo Swee Chiow (Singapore) at Tampines Central, Singapore from 16-25 December 2005 see his blog at http://www.daretodream.com.sg/expeditions.htm 1st record under new guidelines
The longest surviving quintuple heart bypass patient is Chris Daly (Canada, b. 25 December 1918) who underwent surgery at the St. Boniface General Hospital in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, on 5 October 1980, and as of 21 October 2010 has survived 30 years and 16 days. Chris Daly continues to live an active life and even ran a marathon at age 85.
Natasha Veruschka (USA) swallowed a sword 58 cm (22.83 in) long sword on Sword Swallowers Awareness Day, 28 February 2009.
The longest sustained note on a wind or brass instrument is 1 min 13.38 sec on a clarinet by Philip Palmer (UK) at Coppice Performing Arts School, Wolverhampton, UK, on 27 November 2006. His first attempt was measured at 1.16 but there was a blip in volume around the minute mark, so his second attempt was decreed the successful one.
Robert Baker (USA, b. 12 July 1949) received an artificial aortic valve replacement on 27 October 1960 at St Vincent’s Charity Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. His fourth replacement aortic valve was still working as of 8 November 2005. His heart had been damaged several years before when he had suffered an undetected attack of rheumatic fever. Mr Baker’s valve-replacement surgeries took place in the following order: October 1960: by Doctors Kay and Zimmerman, at St Vincent Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. February 1964: by Doctors Kay
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The longest survivor of a porcine aortic valve replacement is Lewis Jackson (L.J) Dean, (US), who received a porcine aortic (pig’s) valve replacement which functioned without any repairs for 30 years 197 days. The operation took place at Scott & White Hospital, Texas, US, under surgeon F.L Korompai (US) on 4 June 1979. When the original claim was logged in October 2009, Mr Dean was still alive. However, when we received the evidence in January 2010, Mr Dean had since died, on 18th December 2009,
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