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I had been floating face-down in the swimming pool of Matamanoa Resort in Fiji for nearly three minutes, eyes closed, breathing through a snorkel, when my freediving instructor’s voice reverberated ...

Free divers swim to extreme depths underwater (the current record is 214m) without any breathing apparatus. Champions can hold their breath for extraordinary amounts of time – the record for women is ...

When you go away for a tropical getaway, there’s no end to the list of ways that you can fit in fun physical activity. You’ve got beach volleyball, snorkeling, kayaking...the list goes on. At one ...

Dahab, Egypt, just north of Sharm el-Sheikh on the Sinai Peninsula, is perfect for free-diving. A diver can have tea in a simple beach cafe and then take just a handful of steps into the Gulf of Aqaba ...

UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: Alessia Zecchini, Italy, 4-minute world record attempt. DETROW: The film follows Italian freediver Alessia Zecchini as she attempts to break record after record. Each time, she ...

When James Nestor first witnessed free diving, he nearly threw up. Then he got hooked. He learned to hold his breath for four minutes, hung out with a “shark whisperer,” and even traveled, Jules Verne ...

I’d been free diving on Hawaii’s Kona coast for over two hours when my guide, Bullet, finally spit out his snorkel and told me that to go further, I needed to do less. Submerging deep into the ocean ...

Friends pay tribute to "the best" diver in the U.S. He was the all-action American daredevil who was loved by all that knew him – but Nick Mevoli’s premature death after an ambitious dive has hit the ...