In Bunaken, freediving is not about pushing limits. It is about slowing down, relaxing, and discovering how natural the ocean can feel.

For most of us humans, the aquatic dance is the same. We dive into a pool or a lake or an ocean, perhaps hold our breath for a few seconds as we swim underwater, and then surface to blessed oxygen.

The world of free diving is in mourning this week over the presumed death of Natalia Molchanova, a 23-time world champion of the difficult sport who failed to return from a dive on Aug. 2. Though ...

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 ...

William Trubridge is a 15-time world-record holder in free diving. Natalia Molchanova, the 23-time world champion free diver who went missing during a recreational free dive on Aug. 2, was easily the ...

Why did you start free-diving? I’ve loved swimming ever since I was a kid. Before taking my first free-diving course in 2007, I was a scuba instructor in Thailand. One day, we were exploring a ...

It takes skill and years of practice to do free diving in search of our Caribbean spiny lobster. Free divers along Trinidad’s north coast will tell you it is not for the faint-hearted. “This is why ...