Amber Bourke stands on the ocean floor, facing away from a black abyss while holding her breath. Slowly, she crouches down and pushes off, arching her back gracefully and spinning down into the ...

Free-diver David Vencl is the new holder of a world record after plunging 170 feet below the icy surface of Switzerland's Lake Sills. The 40-year-old Czech athlete set the record in water that hovers ...

Moments before setting a national freediving record in April, Lt. Col. Laurence Paik checked to make sure his nose clip was fastened, his flashlight was beaming, and his lanyard -- attached to a line ...

Santa Monica freediver Jana Strain (center) set a new Pan American Women's freediving record Monday, diving with a no fins to 53 meters (174 feet) in 2 minutes and 3 seconds. (photo by Mike Wells) ...

Croatian freediver Vitomir Maričić has achieved a new oxygen-assisted breath-hold world record of 29 minutes and 3 seconds, surpassing the previous mark by nearly five minutes. The feat, performed in ...

DENMARK — Santa Monica resident Jana Strain is making waves across the globe as a top competitor in her sport: freediving. Strain, who is Canadian, set a new Pan American Women’s Freediving Record Aug ...

On March 11, 2017, freediver Arthur Guérin-Boëri went diving. This time, however, it was completely different to the other thousands of dives he'd already logged during his record-breaking freediving ...

Lt. Col. Laurence Paik, who is assigned as a reserve intelligence and foreign area officer with the Marine Innovation Unit, beat the record on April 20, by diving 73 meters into the sinkhole and ...