It was a career-high for a record low. Free-diver David Vencl set a Guinness World Record Tuesday after taking a 170-foot, or 52.1-meter, icy plunge below Switzerland’s Lake Sils — without a wetsuit.

Free-diver David Vencl is the new holder of a world record after plunging 170 feet below the icy surface of Switzerland's Lake Sills. The 40-year-old Czech athlete set the record in water that hovers ...

If you've never heard of free diving, imagine this. Launching yourself hundreds of feet into the sea with little more than a mask, a If you've never heard of free diving, imagine this: launching ...

ST. LUCIE COUNTY — U.S. Coast Guard officials Monday evening suspended the search for Virgil Price, who was free diving Sunday about 13 miles southeast of the Fort Pierce Inlet and didn’t resurface.

The search for a missing diver in Florida has been suspended after he disappeared while free diving during an exploration trip to a World War II-era shipwreck off the coast Sunday, the U.S. Coast ...

Sara Burnett had initially planned to spend only a few weeks practicing at Blue Element Freediving, a training center in the Caribbean island nation of Dominica. The area is popular among free divers, ...

FORT PIERCE, Fla. (CBS12) — The search for a missing free diver off the Treasure Coast has been suspended after exhaustive efforts on Monday night. Virgil Price, 39, was last seen at 10 a.m. on Sunday ...

David Vencl reportedly spat out blood and popped open a bottle of champagne after spending nearly two minutes under the icy water with no wetsuit Free-diver David Vencl is the new holder of a world ...