One Breath: Adam Skolnick

Adam Skolnick and his book One Breath: Freediving, Death, and the Quest to Shatter Human Limits is published by Penguin Viking.

Nick Mevoli is assisted to the surface during a failed record attempt in 2012 (Logan Mock Bunting)

15 times world record holder NZer Will Trubridge at Dean's Blue Hole The Bahamas (Daan Verhoeven)

Nick Mevoli's last dive November 2013 (Daan Verhoeven)

Nick Mevoli breaks US record Honduras May 2013 (Lia Barrett)

NZer Will Trubridge after a 120m Free Immersion dive at Vertical Blue 2014 (Daan Verhoeven)

'One Breath' author Adam Skolnick (Tom Lowe)

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