The Loonliness of a Deep Sea Diver - David Beckett, My Autobiography (Paperback)

Imagine living in a box at the bottom of the sea for a month at a time. Locked away in a saturation chamber, plumbed to depths of more than 500 feet, this has been David Beckett's love, life and work for all his adult life. Destined to become a pig farmer in the late 1960s, a twist of fate saw David become an air diver, and within a short space of time he progressed to saturation diving. He would brush with death on more than one occasion - not least when helping to recover 47 bodies of the victims of the Sumburgh chinook disaster in Scotland's Shetland Islands - and when called in to assist with the deadliest peacetime shipwreck in Europe, as the MS Estonia sank in the Baltic Sea in 1994 and claimed 852 lives. Amongst the depths of despair, there are many lighter moments, including treasure hunting in the Philippines, almost clinching a contract to salvage the bursar's safe from the Titanic and surviving a 24-hour typhoon which brought 80-foot waves crashing down on his boat. The Loonliness of a Deep Sea Diver is gritty, sometimes comical and offers a unique glimpse into a life at sea, much of it at the bottom.

General

Imprint:	Pitch Publishing Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 2021
Authors:	David Beckett • Paul Zanon
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	270
ISBN-13:	978-1-78531-886-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Environmental medicine > Diving & hyperbaric medicine Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Water sports & recreations > Swimming & diving > General Books > Biography > General
LSN:	1-78531-886-1
Barcode:	9781785318863

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