Taking a deep breath has long been known to calm down the body; athletes before a race do it or performers and speakers before going on stage. So how can we learn to breathe better? KCRW’s Joanthan ...

By the next month, Arenthia was on a boat with her to West Caicos for freediving line training, or descending in open water while clipped to a rope to hone techniques such as relaxation, breath ...

For most of us humans, the aquatic dance is the same. We dive into a pool or a lake or an ocean, perhaps hold our breath for a few seconds as we swim underwater, and then surface to blessed oxygen.

A 32-year-old Brooklyn man died attempting to break an American freediving record on Sunday. Nicholas Mevoli tried to reach a depth of 236 feet without fins and return to the surface safely on a ...

World Record in Freediving: Croatian Vitomir Maričić (stock photo) held his breath underwater for more than 29 minutes. What happened in his body during this time? Photo: Getty Images/Image Source In ...