How to Use free diver in a Sentence

free diver

noun
  • Swimmers and free divers should steer well clear of the entrance.
    — Terry Ward, Travel + Leisure, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Same for those harrowing true-life tales of mountain climbers, free divers and, worst of all, surfers.
    — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Underwater, a world of sea life attracts divers, snorkelers, and free divers from across the globe.
    — AFAR Media, 28 Aug. 2025
  • This free diver played amongst them, influencing their formation for as long as her breath would last.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
  • This video captures the moment a free diver encounters a baby whale.
    — People Staff, PEOPLE.com, 10 Jan. 2022
  • These snorkels are popular among free divers and people who spearfish thanks to their sleek, minimal drag design.
    — Chantae Reden, Popular Mechanics, 30 June 2023
  • The tower has also seen cliff jumpers and free divers, scientists and Boy Scout troops.
    — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 11 Sep. 2024
  • For the past four years, Alexey Molchanov has been the undisputed best all-around free diver in the world.
    — Adam Skolnick, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2021
  • These female free divers scour the ocean for edible jewels like seaweed, lobster, and mollusks and grill their fresh catch in an amagoya hut.
    — Christina Liao, Vogue, 30 Dec. 2023
  • The free diver is able to move through the water much more easily, and there are no bubbles or regulator noises to spook fish.
    — Popular Science, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Free diving fins are built with long, thin blades that help free divers and people who spearfish dive deep, expending as little energy as possible.
    — Chantae Reden, Popular Mechanics, 15 June 2023
  • Surfers accounted for 34% and snorkelers/free divers accounted for 8%.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2025
  • The organisms that made the largest and most prized of these shells would have anchored themselves to the rocky seafloor in clear water, deep enough that only skilled free divers could reach them.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 28 Dec. 2018
  • Determined to reinvent himself as a competitive free diver, he is drawn to the depths of the ocean as a sanctuary from his inner turmoil.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 19 Feb. 2026
  • One of the divers was Manos Mitikas, the local Fourni free diver who called Koutsouflakis a year ago with the map of wrecks.
    — Nick Romeo, National Geographic, 11 July 2016
  • The Ama, named after the women free divers of Japan, is the ideal bucket tote sized to carry all your daily essentials from sun-up to sun down.
    — Bianca Salonga, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Few free divers do under-ice diving, with most usually travelling to locations like the Red Sea or the Maldives.
    — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 28 Feb. 2020
  • But perhaps no symbol has become more important than the haenyeo, Jeju's female free divers who scour the sea for conch, abalone, and seaweed while holding their breath for mind-boggling periods of time.
    — Gary Shteyngart, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Nov. 2023
  • In comparison, average people might be able to stay underwater for one to two minutes, and world-class free divers can hold their breath in competitive settings for up to three or close to four and a half minutes.
    — Angus Chen, Scientific American, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Molchanov is the son of Natalia Molchanova, the world’s most famous free diver, who vanished while diving in Spain in 2015 and is presumed dead.
    — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 28 Feb. 2020
  • Virgil Price, the Florida free diver, who went missing on Sunday, was 39 years old and last seen wearing a green wet suit, the sheriff's office said.
    — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 14 May 2024
  • In addition to surf photography, Lee, a skilled free diver, specializes in taking underwater photos.
    — Diane Bell Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Aug. 2021
  • The caller was a free diver and spear-fisher from the remote Fourni archipelago, a small cluster of islands between Samos and Ikaria in the eastern Aegean.
    — Nick Romeo, National Geographic, 11 July 2016
  • In addition to understanding how the Bajau became such good free divers, Llardo says the findings have medical implications.
    — National Geographic, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Elsewhere in the interview, Berry also talked about her experience playing a free diver in 2012’s Dark Tide.
    — Zoe G. Phillips, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Of the remaining incidents swimmers and waders accounted for 25%, with remaining incidents divided between snorkelers and free divers, body surfers and scuba divers.
    — Paul P. Murphy, CNN, 22 Jan. 2020
  • Surfers and other beachgoers participating in board sports were the most common targets of shark attacks in 2023, followed by swimmers and waders and, lastly, snorkelers and free divers.
    — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Photographer, climber, and free diver Andy Bardon has traveled to some of the most remote regions on earth to document human interactions with the natural world.
    — National Geographic, 12 June 2019
  • Layne, the resident marine biologist and free diver, can take you snorkeling, deep-sea fishing, spearfishing, and even on a whale-watching excursion from June to September.
    — Jen Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 19 Mar. 2025
  • But the episode mostly focuses on Blaine's training with free divers under the ice to prepare for a stunt in which Blaine swims from one point under Finnish ice to another, pulling himself along with a rope while holding his breath.
    — Ars Technica, 23 Mar. 2025

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