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 ...

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 ...

There are people who can dive deeper than WWII submarines without coming up for air, in the increasingly popular extreme sport called free diving. Bob Simon speaks to two of the sport's top performers ...