
18 November 2025
Deep Water
The Slow Newscast
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The Slow Newscast
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. And then she stumbled on a darker side of the sport. Rumours were swirling that a group of top divers were doping to go deeper. So she decided to investigate.
Deep Water is the latest Tortoise Investigates series from The Observer.