Explain hyperventilating before holding breath

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Explain why hyperventilating before holding your breath, which many people do before diving underwater, can cause shallow water blackout because hypoxia occurs without warning. Why don't our central and peripheral chemoreceptors detect the hypoxia before we lose consciousness?

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