Lindsay Bira swears by freediving — lengthy stints of underwater diving while holding your breath — as a stress reduction method. The water may even be optional. Working to increase the amount of time ...

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.

Freediving, the art of diving underwater in one breath, is one of the world’s fastest-growing sports. Here’s how an island where many don’t know how to swim became one of the sport’s meccas. A ...

Dive into this freediving and spearfishing adventure in Mendocino! Learn safety tips from Wilderness Medic, understand abalone regulations, and watch as we catch our limit of abalone and my first fish ...