On a crisp, clear day, this spring, I stood at the edge of Lake Washington, ready to slip into the water and do something I’d ...

The trick? Try not to watch the clock.

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 ...

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When you go away for a tropical getaway, there’s no end to the list of ways that you can fit in fun physical activity. You’ve got beach volleyball, snorkeling, kayaking...the list goes on. At one ...

Free divers swim to extreme depths underwater (the current record is 214m) without any breathing apparatus. Champions can hold their breath for extraordinary amounts of time – the record for women is ...

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 ...

Dahab, Egypt, just north of Sharm el-Sheikh on the Sinai Peninsula, is perfect for free-diving. A diver can have tea in a simple beach cafe and then take just a handful of steps into the Gulf of Aqaba ...

I’d been free diving on Hawaii’s Kona coast for over two hours when my guide, Bullet, finally spit out his snorkel and told me that to go further, I needed to do less. Submerging deep into the ocean ...

Bilge Cingigiray is a national free diving athlete from Turkey who has dreamed of breaking the record for longest underwater walk with one breath (female) for two years. The Turkish athlete ...

"This one did not stink at all," said correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi as she gleefully reminisced about her latest 60 Minutes report, on the sport of free diving. The story took her to the Bahamas where ...