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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For hundreds of years, the Bajau have lived at sea, and natural selection may have made them genetically stronger divers.

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 ...

Professional diver Andrew Ryzebol tells PEOPLE exclusively of his risky underwater explorations 200 feet beneath uncharted ice with nothing but a mask and fins Ontario Freedivers Andrew Ryzebol is a ...

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 ...