Getting enough oxygen in the water can be hard work. While fish and many other aquatic animals take air directly from the water through gills, other animals find ingenious ways to drag air bubbles ...

Did you know that the average human takes over 600 million breaths in their lifetime? As our key survival function, breathing is so necessary that it is primarily an involuntary act–it’s hardwired ...

Croatian freediver Vitomir Maričić broke the world record for longest human breath hold with a stunning 29 minutes and 3 seconds—almost five minutes longer than the previous record, set in 2021.

Esther Williams was a competitive swimmer and actress beloved for a run of films, starting in the mid-1940s, that highlighted her ability to perform gorgeously choreographed routines — often ...

Here are 13 actors who held their breath underwater for an extraordinarily long time. Because the most exclusive club in Hollywood... is only accessible through the pool. Let's dive in. We don't know ...

For almost 30 minutes, Vitomir Maricic didn't take a breath. Face down in a pool, surrounded by anxious onlookers, the Croatian freediver fought spasming pain to redefine what doctors thought was ...

Did you know that the average human takes over 600 million breaths in their lifetime? As our key survival function, breathing is so necessary that it is primarily an involuntary act–it’s hardwired ...