For almost 30 minutes, Vitomir Maricic didn't take a breath.When he finally surfaced, he had smashed the previous Guinness World Record for the longest breath-hold underwater by nearly five minutes.

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On one dive, I found a striped catshark wedged in a small cave. Curiously, a perfect strip of sand ran across its head. On reviewing a photo of the shark’s head, I realized that the line of sand was ...

(CNN) — An island 50 miles (80 kilometers) off the southern tip of the Korean Peninsula is home to a unique and celebrated community of women: the Haenyeo. These women dive year-round off Jeju Island, ...

Albitar, 27, is Jordan’s deepest freediver – and she’s also among a growing cohort of Arab women who are taking on this ...

A narcosis-induced hallucination of gremlins. An underwater dance of weightless grace. A single breath that transcends all the oceans of the world. An internal battle with a watery mirror. All fit ...

One of the challenges of competitive free diving is that only other free divers can look after free divers. Scuba divers have to rise to the surface in a slow, controlled way, so if something goes ...

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