On the soft white sands of Grace Bay Beach in Turks and Caicos, I watch the sea stretch out in lazy ribbons of turquoise and aquamarine. Grace Bay consistently ranks among the world's most beautiful ...

The Atlantic Ocean is a turquoise blanket unfurled to the horizon beyond the white sand beach of the Grace Bay Club, a luxury resort in Turks and Caicos. My husband, Adrian, and I haven’t traveled as ...

With training, people can hold their breath much longer than most realize, allowing us to dive to remarkable depths underwater. The “mammalian dive response” causes physiological changes to the body, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. What is it about being completely trapped, inches from death and unable to escape that so fascinates us? These ...

Dahab, Egypt – When the countdown began, Khaled Elgammal took one final, deep breath before descending without any breathing equipment into the ocean. One minute and 29 seconds later, still holding ...

Your body is floating in a warm, blue bath, neither sinking nor rising. Sunlight shimmers on the white sand below as a sea turtle drifts by. You feel your heart beating slowly and a profound sense of ...

A ‘shattering love story’ ends in a tragic accident: a scene from Laura McGann’s documentary The Deepest Breath. Photograph: Netflix With the Netflix documentary The Deepest Breath wowing audiences, ...

In reflecting on this accomplishment, Bruderer emphasized the profound mental and spiritual aspects of his freediving practice. “It was above all a journey into my innermost being as a human being,” ...