The trick? Try not to watch the clock.

At 19, Tucker Francis was living his dream. About a decade earlier, he had sailed around the northwest Atlantic with his family, and his passion for the ocean and adventure blossomed. He loved ...

Freedivers repeatedly experience hypoxia while holding their breath underwater. (Matt Porteous/Stone RF/Getty Images) It's extremely not very good for your brain to deprive it of oxygen. Starved of ...

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 ...

On a sunny day in Perth, a freediver is floating on the ocean, 200 metres offshore, eyes closed and seemingly unresponsive. He has just surfaced. His diving buddy is lightly tapping his cheek and ...

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Panic erupted after a man realized his relative who was accompanying him in a kayak had failed to resurface, prompting an ...

Guillaume Néry takes a moment to compose himself. He adjusts his mask, swallows a big breath of air and then dives into the sea. And he won’t come back up for several minutes. Néry is a former world ...