How is breathing low oxygen saturated air more dangerous than holding your breath?

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I’m doing emergency rescue for work and learnt that inhaling a few times at below 10% oxengenated air will leave you pretty much immobile, but I can hold my breath for at least a minute, so shouldn’t I be able to go without 02 for a similar amount of time? Sorry if this is smoothbrained, I tried googling it and couldn’t find an answer for this specifically.

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Because low oxygen jmales you dizzy and pass out. You dtill are getting oxygen so your body slow down.

Holding your bresth is depriving your body of oxygen, building up Co2 in your bloodstream causing the PANIC mode to kick in.

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