
Hanli Prinsloo
Freediver
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May 15, 2026
The Big BOAT Interview: What happened when seven-month-pregnant freediver Hanli Prinsloo met a pod of bottlenose dolphins
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12:21speaker_2NARRATOR
What do, what do you mean about, by that? And how can people use that in everyday life?

Hanli PrinslooGUEST
Breath is such an underutilized opportunity, I think would be the way to put it.

Hanli PrinslooGUEST
That, you know, we are born to... from water into this world where we have to breathe to survive, and at first we cry [laughs] because we don't like leaving the watery world we come from after nine months.

Hanli PrinslooGUEST
And then we use this breath day in and day out, and we're much better at breathing when we babies.

Hanli PrinslooGUEST
When you watch a baby sleep and their belly is rising and falling, and they're breathing with their whole lung capacity.

Hanli PrinslooGUEST
And then as we get older and we are upright, and we have anxiety which presses on our chest, or we sit slumped forward, you know, we stop breathing with a fraction of our lungs, and we become bad breathers.
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23:14speaker_2NARRATOR
What was the impetus, um, and inspiration for starting this?
January 27, 2026 - PBS News Hour full episode
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Hanli PrinslooGUEST
We are water, and I truly believe that we protect what we love, and that when something we love is threatened, we act.

Hanli PrinslooGUEST
[upbeat music] I grew up on a horse farm outside Pretoria in South Africa, and my childhood consisted of riding horses bareback, climbing the tallest trees, catching frogs, and listening to owls at night.