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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. Then, she stumbled on a darker side of the sport. Rumours that a group of top divers were doping to go deeper.


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Reporter - Lydia Gard


Producer - Gary Marshall.


Music supervision and sound design - Karla Patella


Sound design - Rowan Bishop


Podcast artwork - Lola Williams


Fact checking - Poppy Bullard, Katie Gunning, Amalie Sortland, Madeleine Parr & Jess Swinburne


Executive producer - Basia Cummings


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