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Holding your breath may be more than just a good party trick. While it sounds like the last thing you’d want to do to your brain, new research suggests that regularly depriving it of oxygen could come ...

Elite freedivers who dive unaided in open sea, have brain oxygen levels even lower than seals during their deepest dives, new research at the University of St Andrews has found. The divers, who ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ‘There’s no up, down, to the side because there’s no gravity. You don’t feel any pressure on your body in any particular place’ ...

Scientists have discovered that freedivers who plunge deep underwater develop incredible mental adaptations that protect ...

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With the disappearance and presumed death of champion freediver Natalia Molchanova last week, it seems freediving has taken another life. Molchanova disappeared while on a recreational dive, ...

Aaron Fisher’s mental health, like that of many people around the world, suffered during the Covid-19 pandemic. “I started going through really bad depression at that time,” the Canadian says before a ...