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Nov 2014
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The Extreme Sport You've Probably Never ...

BEN GREENFIELD
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While on assignment in Greece, journalist James Nestor witnessed something that confounded him: a man diving 300 feet below the ocean’s surface on a single breath of air and returning four minutes later, totally unharmed... ...and smiling. This man... 
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