The Doorway to the Deep

Hold your breath. How long can you last? One minute, maybe two? Imagine holding your breath for fifteen minutes, underwater. The stakes are high. Breathe in, and you’ll inhale the sea. Leave it too long, and you’ll black out. Either way, you will drown. 

Freediving is exactly that: diving down into the depths of the ocean with nothing but the air in your lungs. On the coast of Kalamata in Greece there is an international championship once a year. Free divers from all over the globe gather to beat records, trying to go deeper for longer and often surfacing disappointed and bleeding from their eyes… 

Read this feature article, published by Lindsay Magazine