With humidity hanging in the hot afternoon air like a soggy blanket, visitors at the Oro Valley Aquatic Center were quick to strip down to their swimwear and hop into the pool. Melissa Ponder bundled ...

The practice of freediving is teaching physiologists how humans stretch their physical and mental limits, which in turn may ...

Claire Ryan completed the feat beneath a frozen Finnish lake wearing only a swimsuit, holding her breath for two minutes and ...

When the famed freediver Francisco Ferreras filed a libel suit over “No Limit,” his case looked strong. Proving it would ...

The Vancouver director learned how to free dive for filming, becoming safety diver for Chinese female freediving champion ...

World-firsts still up for grabs include swimming the Pacific, leaping 9 metres and holding your breath for 30 minutes ...

The new and old records were set by inhaling pure oxygen to help the oxygen-carbon dioxide balance. The unaided record is still over 11 minutes.

Jack Webb, 28, recently broke a 14-year-old International Association for the Development of Apnea (AIDA) national record for the deepest constant weight free dive, reaching 113m at the Deep Dominica ...

Most of us have seen how long we can hold our breath underwater. Budimir Šobat (Croatia) has proven he's unrivalled at the skill. On 27 March 2021, he broke the record for the longest time breath held ...

Croatian freediver Vitomir Maričić stunned the world by redefining the limits of human breath-holding in a record-breaking underwater feat. Croatian freediver Vitomir Maričić has set a new world ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Croatian freediver Vitomir Maričić broke the world record for longest human breath hold with a stunning 29 minutes and 3 ...