For hundreds of years, the Bajau have lived at sea, and natural selection may have made them genetically stronger divers.

World champion Morgan Bourc’his explains how breath control, calm, and gradual progression unlock one of the most meditative sports on earth. That’s not bad considering I could barely keep my head ...

I'm sinking. This is my favorite part of free diving, a sport I came to Hawaii's Big Island a dozen years ago to learn, before I had any idea that I'd make the island my home. I've been a water person ...

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, ...

On a new free-diving tour in South Africa, one traveler comes face-to-face with seals, shipwrecks, and the limits of her own endurance. The waters off the coast of Cape Town were crystal clear and a ...

Years ago, while working to build an orphanage in Tanzania, Renee Blundon got into ocean swimming for exercise. Swimming turned into snorkeling, then to scuba diving, to underwater hockey and ...

Tara Rawson was captivated when she first saw someone free diving at the Rowley Shoals, 260 kilometres west of Broome, off Western Australia's northern coast. Now the dietician and yoga teacher has ...

A group of divers were observing a large school of sardines when a Bryde's whale suddenly appeared Free-diving instructor Emily Marzilli and her friends went diving in Magdalena Bay off Baja ...