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Deep - Freediving, Renegade Science and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves (Paperback, Main)
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Deep - Freediving, Renegade Science and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves (Paperback, Main)
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List price R391
Loot Price R359
Discovery Miles 3 590
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From the author of the international Bestseller Breath Covering a
diving championship in Greece on a hot and sticky assignment for
Outside magazine, James Nestor discovered free diving. He had
stumbled on one of the most extreme sports in existence: a quest to
extend the frontiers of human experience, in which divers descend
without breathing equipment, for hundreds of feet below the water,
for minutes after they should have died from lack of oxygen.
Sometimes they emerge unconscious, or bleeding from the nose and
ears, and sometimes they don't come up at all. The free divers were
Nestor's way into an exhilarating and dangerous world of deep-sea
pioneers, underwater athletes, scientists, spear fishermen,
billionaires and ordinary men and women who are poised on the brink
of some amazing discoveries about the ocean. Soon he was visiting
the scientists who live 60ft underwater (and are permanently high
on nitrous dioxide), swimming with the notorious man-eating sharks
of Reunion and descending thousands of feet in a homemade
submarine. And on the way down, he learnt about the amazing
amphibious reflexes activated in the human body under deep-water
conditions, why dolphins were injected with LSD in an attempt to
teach them to talk, and why sharks like AC/DC. The sea covers
seventy per cent of Earth's surface, and still contains answers to
questions about the world we are only beginning to ask: Deep blends
science and adventure to uncover its amazing secrets.
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