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The Loonliness of a Deep Sea Diver - David Beckett, My Autobiography (Paperback)
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The Loonliness of a Deep Sea Diver - David Beckett, My Autobiography (Paperback)
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List price R406
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Discovery Miles 3 700
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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.
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