The Deadliest Sports on Earth: Ranked

Freediving

Most people don't really know about freediving when compared to its more popular counterpart, scuba diving. Suba divers use oxygen tanks and other gear to assist them with breathing underwater, freedivers do not use any respiratory gear. If you're to get hurt, stuck, or turned around in any way while freediving, you very well might drown. 

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.