I’ve spent my life looking for that feeling of total weightlessness. I’ve jumped from planes and hung off cliffs, but I ...

Turns out not breathing is hard. A minute or so ago, I filled my lungs with as much air they would hold and now I’m staring at a plane streak across the sky, past clouds reminiscent of alveoli. The ...

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 ...

On a cool February morning in 1967, Navy diver Bob Croft packed his lungs with air and plunged into the Atlantic, descending more than 200 feet without a mask, fins or scuba tank. By most measures, Mr ...

A couple of years ago, Melissa Ilardo found herself aboard a motorboat traversing the ocean around Jeju Island, which sits some 50 or 60 miles off the coast of South Korea. Before the vessel had even ...

Veld & Sea founder Roushanna Gray free diving off the Cape Peninsula. The waters off the coast of Cape Town were crystal clear and a face-numbing 52 degrees. Bracing myself, I took a deep breath and ...