Getting enough oxygen in the water can be hard work. While fish and many other aquatic animals take air directly from the water through gills, other animals find ingenious ways to drag air bubbles ...

Kate Winslet is full of hidden talents. Chief among them? Holding her breath underwater. It's an unusual skill she discovered on the set of "Avatar: The Way of Water," where she set a shocking ...

Anthony Bain receives funding from the National Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada. It’s a remarkable feat; anyone (including professional freedivers) would acknowledge that a ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

James Cameron enlisted the help of "the world’s best breath-hold specialists" to help Sigourney Weaver, Zoe Saldaña and Kate Winslet for underwater sequences The Avatar: The Way of Water cast grew ...

Some of these animals can stay submerged for staggering lengths of time. But which animal can hold its breath the longest? And what characteristics enable it to do this? Although diving times can ...