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Sounds,24 Sep 2026,3 mins

SeriesDeep Water

Introducing... Deep Water

Tortoise Investigates

Available for 361 days

Three years ago, travel writer Lydia Gard discovered freediving. An extreme and beautiful sport defined by one objective: to dive as deep as you can on one single breath. It soon became a calling. Then, she stumbled on a darker side of the sport. Rumours that a group of top divers were doping to go deeper. So she decided to investigate.

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