Free-diving in fiction

• In the Canadian television series Corner Gas, the character Karen Pelly (Tara Spencer-Nairn) competed in static apnea, ranking fifth in Canada with a personal best of over six minutes.
• The Big Blue starring Rosanna Arquette, Jean Reno, and Jean Marc-Barr is a romance film about two world-class freedivers and is partly based on fact.
• Into The Blue starring Paul Walker, Jessica Alba, Scott Caan, and Ashley Scott. A group of divers find themselves in deep trouble with a drug lord after they come upon the illicit cargo of a sunken airplane.
• The Freediver (2004) Starring Camilla Rutherford, Alki David, Dominique Swain, and Adam Baldwin. A talented freediver woman is discovered and brought to an island where she is trained by an ambitious scientist to break a freediving world record currently held by an egocentric American woman.
• The Greater Meaning of Water (2008) Starring Justin Williford, Mark Brunetti, and Holly London. An independent film about competitive freediving focusing on the "zen of freediving".
• In the computer game The Secret of Monkey Island, the main character, Guybrush Threepwood, boasts being able to hold his breath for ten minutes. Although not exactly freediving, Guybrush ends up underwater in a certain point of the game, and dies if the player doesn't solve the puzzle in ten minutes.
• In Greg Iles' novel Blood Memory, the main character Cat Ferry is an odontologist and a free diver.