Alissa Greenberg has a Time article about a diver who didn't come up:
Natalia Molchanova, regarded by many as the greatest free diver in the history of the sport, is missing and presumed dead after she disappeared during a dive off the Spanish island of Formentera on 2 August 2015.Rico says it's sad but, having been nearly killed by the ocean in Hawai'i, he can easily imagine it happening, even to a pro like her...
Molchanova, who set 41 world records and won 23 world championships in the sport, was diving for fun with friends close to the village of La Savina in an area where currents can fluctuate powerfully, The New York Times reports. Because she was diving for leisure, and not to set a record, she was not attached to the line that divers often use to mark their depth and guard against emergencies.
Her personal records in competition include a dive of over two hundred feet without the use of fins, and almost three hundred feet with a monofin. She also held the world record for “static apnea”, in which a diver floats face-down in a pool, managing to stay nine minutes and two seconds without taking a breath.
Search efforts begun after her disappearance continued for two days, but her son, Alexey Molchanov, who is also a respected free diver, told the Times on 4 August 2015 that she is now not expected to be found alive. “Free diving is not only sport, it’s a way to understand who we are,” Molchanova said in an interview with the Times last year. “When we go down, if we don’t think, we understand we are whole. We are one with the world.”
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