Taking the plunge with freediving in Cape Town - SilverKris

"At a dive school in Muizenberg run by John Daines, I completed a two-day freediving course that taught breathing techniques, how to lower my heart rate and use mental control to resist the CO2-driven urge to breathe; Daines, a calm, athletic former competitive freediver who can hold his breath close to seven minutes, shifted from chasing records to non-competitive adventure freediving, and his school—Cape Town Freediving—was the first in South Africa to offer recreational adventure freediving about four years ago, helping me extend my breath-hold to more than three and a half minutes and attracting growing interest from people seeking mindfulness, slowness and stress relief." - Tommy Trenchard