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the art of telling your survival instincts to wait quietly while you sink into the blue
means The sport or practice of diving underwater on a single breath, without scuba tanks or other breathing apparatus, relying only on the air in your lungs.
from A transparent modern compound of "free" and "diving" — "free" here meaning unencumbered by breathing gear, much as "freehand" means without a ruler or "freestyle" without prescribed rules. The term spread in the 20th century to distinguish breath-hold diving from scuba, though the act itself is ancient: pearl, sponge, and shell divers across the Mediterranean, the Pacific, and Japan (the famed female ama divers) had been sinking on a single breath for thousands of years before anyone needed a word to set it apart from a tank.
- depth record
- Humans have dived past 250 meters on one breath
- mammalian dive reflex
- Cold water slows your heart automatically underwater
- spleen squeeze
- Your spleen releases extra oxygen-rich red cells
- breath-hold
- Static apnea record exceeds eleven minutes
- lung compression
- At depth, lungs shrink to fist-sized organs
william trubridge — new zealand freediver who set the no-limits record at 102m depth in 2016
natalia molchanova — russian freediver with 41 world records, disappeared in mediterranean in 2015
dean's blue hole — world's deepest blue hole at 202m in the bahamas, site of record-breaking freedives
aida depth world championships — annual international freediving competition held in various locations since 2000