Oct. 17 -- Champion free diver Audrey Mestre took a single breath, then dove 561 feet to try to try to break a world record. But the 28-year-old French woman did not make it back up alive. She blacked ...

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 ...

A free diving instructor enjoying the open water of the Pacific Ocean near Mexico had her peace interrupted by a once-in-a-lifetime encounter. The moment, which occurred in Nov. 2025, was captured on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A group of Haenyeo (women divers) walk on the beach after diving on Jeju Island, South Korea, November 19, 2023. - ...

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 ...

More than 223 feet below the surface, just a few feet from a new record, diver Nicholas Mevoli paused.

Free State freshman Gavin McIntosh tucks for a somersault in the KSHSAA 6A state swim and dive meet at the Shawnee Mission School District Aquatic Center on Thursday, February 20, 2025. Lenexa — Free ...

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 ...

Sperm whales have the largest brain of any living animal, weighing up to 9 kilograms (nearly 20 lbs), a key reason scientists believe they possess advanced communication and social intelligence. They ...

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 ...

​Robert Croft, who has died aged 91, was a US Navy diving instructor whose record-breaking feats of deep diving in the 1960s transformed scientific understanding of how the human body ...