It was a career-high for a record low. Free-diver David Vencl set a Guinness World Record Tuesday after taking a 170-foot, or 52.1-meter, icy plunge below Switzerland’s Lake Sils — without a wetsuit.

One of the challenges of competitive free diving is that only other free divers can look after free divers. Scuba divers have to rise to the surface in a slow, controlled way, so if something goes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Search crews recovered the bodies of two missing divers Sunday on Oahu’s North Shore, the Honolulu Fire Department reported. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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