Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves

by James Nestor

In 2001, the world record for static apnea, held by a Czech named Martin Štěpánek, was just over eight minutes. In 2009, Stéphane Mifsud, a French diver, increased the record by 27 percent, to eleven minutes and thirty-nine seconds.