This is guaranteed to take your breath away: Put on a mask, don a pair of fins and plunge into the deep blue. You're on your own. Welcome to the sport of freediving, in which there are no air tanks, ...

On a crisp February day, a small party walks on the frozen-over Lake Weissensee in the Austrian Alps. The crunch of the ice under their cleats intermingles with their voices—the sounds of anticipation ...

where decades of apartheid history meant that water sports were often reserved for wealthy whites. Ndlovu is trying the change that, by introducing the ocean to the country's Black youth. "In becoming ...

As a certified free diver and scuba diver, I thought mermaiding was performative and girly. But I kept seeing people getting into it on social media, and my interest was piqued. I decided to take a ...

When I was a young girl, I was obsessed with mermaids – beautiful mythical creatures in books and movies, and gorgeous women in aquariums who waved at children and blew kisses. I so badly wanted to be ...