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 ...

World champion Morgan Bourc’his explains how breath control, calm, and gradual progression unlock one of the most meditative sports on earth. That’s not bad considering I could barely keep my head ...

A couple of years ago, Melissa Ilardo found herself aboard a motorboat traversing the ocean around Jeju Island, which sits some 50 or 60 miles off the coast of South Korea. Before the vessel had even ...

How do they do it? For centuries, a community of women on South Korea's Jeju Island have been diving without oxygen, holding their breath for several minutes as they harvest seafood from deep under ...

On a cool February morning in 1967, Navy diver Bob Croft packed his lungs with air and plunged into the Atlantic, descending more than 200 feet without a mask, fins or scuba tank. By most measures, Mr ...

Talk about a close call. Free divers had a very close encounter with a hungry whale. While a bit terrifying, it's a moment they will probably never forget. The incident happened last November in the ...

​Robert Croft, who has died aged 91, was a US Navy diving instructor whose record-breaking feats of deep diving in the 1960s transformed scientific understanding of how the human body ...