Twenty-year-old John Erck set the Guinness World Record for the world's largest free floating soap bubble. The massive bubble measured 105.4 cubic feet. If filled with water, it would have held 788 gallons and weighed 3.2 tons. 13,627 baseballs would fit inside. The feat was accomplished with a product he helped develop called beeboo Big Bubble Mix.
A team of Ph.D. scientists provided accurate documentation to the Guinness World Records committee. The team was comprised of Dr. Monte Ramstad, a pioneer in fully synchronized three-dimensional digital photography, and Dr. Fadil Santosa, a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Minnesota.
Dr. Ramstad photographed the bubble with a series of synchronized cameras located at predetermined angles and measured focal lengths while Dr. Santosa determined the volume of the bubble using mathematical functions.
John Erck explained that "in our day and age of television, computers and video games, having fun outside often times seems to be a thing of the past. beeboo Big Bubble Mix is our attempt to provide creative and entertaining forms of outdoor fun for everyone."
The developers of beeboo purchased a big bubble wand that included directions on how to make your own homemade bubble solution but were disappointed with the results. Their formulation, the beeboo Big Bubble Mix, makes the activity of blowing big bubbles easy and available.