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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The final day of my Los Angeles free-diving course happened to coincide with my 12th wedding anniversary. Instead of drinking wine with my better half, I was scheduled to dive the Pacific Ocean to a ...

"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 ...

Alexey Molchanov dived under the frozen waters of a quarry in Moscow MOSCOW -- Free diver Alexey Molchanov -- the son of famed Russian free diver Natalia Molchanova-- is no stranger to death-defying ...

Free diver Nicholas Mevoli of Brooklyn died after his event last week at the Vertical Blue competition in the Bahamas. Host Rachel Martin talks to writer James Nestor, who is writing a book on the ...

For the past four years, Alexey Molchanov has been the undisputed best all-around free diver in the world. He broke yet another world record last week, this time beneath an icy surface. By Adam ...

Free State freshman Gavin McIntosh tucks for a somersault in the KSHSAA 6A state swim and dive meet at the Shawnee Mission School District Aquatic Center on Thursday, February 20, 2025. Lenexa — Free ...