Malta hosts 29-minute miracle: how science and sea made freediving history
On a wind-lashed afternoon in Għar Lapsi, while most Maltese fishermen were still mending their nets, Croatian freediver Budimir Šobat was preparing to do what science once swore was impossible: stay alive without breathing for 29 minutes and 30 seconds. The record, ratified last week by Guinness World Records, did not fall in the Red…