If you've never heard of free diving, imagine this. Launching yourself hundreds of feet into the sea with little more than a mask, a If you've never heard of free diving, imagine this: launching ...

Turns out not breathing is hard. A minute or so ago, I filled my lungs with as much air they would hold and now I’m staring ...

"Think about the Mammalian Diving Reflex and what it does for you." Netflix released a 7-min featurette looking at "The Science of Freediving," considered one of the most dangerous sports on Earth. It ...

The extreme sport of freediving is growing in popularity and interest. A new Netflix documentary called “The Deepest Breath” goes inside the high-risk sport, following freedivers Alessia Zecchini and ...

In many sports, there is an inherent risk. That’s part of the allure. We often are perfectly content to watch people attempt feats we would never try ourselves. We marvel and applaud those who put ...

I'm sinking. This is my favorite part of free diving, a sport I came to Hawaii's Big Island a dozen years ago to learn, before I had any idea that I'd make the island my home. I've been a water person ...

The Atlantic Ocean is a turquoise blanket unfurled to the horizon beyond the white sand beach of the Grace Bay Club, a luxury resort in Turks and Caicos. My husband, Adrian, and I haven’t traveled as ...

Years ago, while working to build an orphanage in Tanzania, Renee Blundon got into ocean swimming for exercise. Swimming turned into snorkeling, then to scuba diving, to underwater hockey and ...

The temperature of the water remains constant throughout the year, making it a perfect spot for free divers. With its rich ...

Moments before setting a national freediving record in April, Lt. Col. Laurence Paik checked to make sure his nose clip was fastened, his flashlight was beaming, and his lanyard -- attached to a line ...

"This one did not stink at all," said correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi as she gleefully reminisced about her 60 Minutes report, on the sport of free diving. The story took her to the Bahamas where she ...

On a new free-diving tour in South Africa, one traveler comes face-to-face with seals, shipwrecks, and the limits of her own endurance. The waters off the coast of Cape Town were crystal clear and a ...