For Alana Caskey, meditating means being dozens of metres under the water, holding her breath for minutes on end.
Freediving is an unusual hobby, but the 42-year-old jokes she should have been born with fins. Like a human fish, Alana can hold her breath for over five minutes while she plunges so far under the surface, her lungs shrink to the size of oranges.
"It's very relaxing," she tells Woman's Day. "It might be a battle against your own mind, but it's addictive."
Alana is one of Australia's most impressive free divers and is often found in the watery wonderland of Port Stephens on the Hunter Coast of New South Wales, her home base. But her passion has taken her all over the world, including the Blue Hole off the Egyptian coast, where she went the deepest she's ever been on her third visit. "It was only 59.8 metres, but I'm calling it 60," she laughs.
In the Maldives, Alana was part of a Guinness World Record attempt for the most free divers ever assembled.
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