The thought of being trapped under the ice on a frozen lake would give most people nightmares, but for Czech freediver Petr Kapoun it’s actually a hobby. The questionably sane swimmer went for a lap underneath the ice using a yellow guide rope and completed the lap without dying, which is really the only measure […]
Anyone that has ever jumped off a 10-meter platform into a pool knows that hitting the water at the wrong angle can be like jumping off a building onto a sidewalk. At the World Death Diving Championships, pain is actually the goal. We have no clue how long a ‘death diver”s career lasts, but we’re […]
Michael Phelps racing a great white shark was all a lie. A dirty, filthy lie. We didn’t exactly know how this would be a fraud, and the hype was kind of fun, but the entire thing amounted to Phelps strapping on a shark fin thing and racing in an open water course…by himself. The shark’s […]
23-time Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps can swim like a fish, and now he’s going to to race a great white shark. That’s not a typo, The Discovery Channel has just issued a press release announcing the inter-special swimming super race, set for July 23: They are one of the fastest and most efficient predators […]
