Sara Burnett had initially planned to spend only a few weeks practicing at Blue Element Freediving, a training center in the Caribbean island nation of Dominica. The area is popular among free divers, ...
On a new free-diving tour in South Africa, one traveler comes face-to-face with seals, shipwrecks, and the limits of her own ...
A new analysis of a group of all-women extreme divers off the coast of Korea has uncovered genetic differences that could help them survive the intense physiological stresses of free-diving—and could ...
ALBANY - It was an ordinary October morning in 2019 when Doug Grobbelaar climbed a ladder 15 feet above a driveway to clean a home's window. It was a routine part of his workday that Grobbelaar had ...
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 ...
The project focuses on free-diving conservationist Ocean Ramsey (her real name), who recounts her “fascination and kinship with one of the ocean’s most feared predators,” according to Netflix. “Her ...