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Self-Help & Non-Fiction
Deep
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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 Réunion 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.
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 Réunion 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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ISBN9781781250662
PublisherProfile Books
Publication Date05/07/15
Pages288
Main GenreSelf-Help & Non-Fiction
Sub GenreNature
FormatSoftcover
LanguageEnglish
Price16.50 €
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5.0Recommendation to everybody who (weirdly) feels at home in the water. A nice overview over the diving reflex and what it does and actually means for our bodies. Seems that our species forgot how to use some handy senses we were born with. About the side-stories and research-facts in this book: I agree with everything. We need so much more research about the oceans. We need to stop overfishing. We need to stop whale hunting, shark killing ... killing any of these beautiful creatures. They're obviously intelligent. Regardless of my love for whales and dolphins, cases like this tear my heart in two: In 2007, a Bowhead whale was discovered with the end of a harpoon left embedded in its neck from a previous hunt. It was found that the harpoon tip was originally manufactured in 1890, indicating the whale had survived a human attack more than a century ago. Killer whales have been around about 11 million years. The Greenland shark can live to be 400 years old. Researchers discovered this longevity by carbon dating the sharks’ eyes based on the fallout from nuclear bomb testing in the 1960s, which means there are sharks in the ocean that were born before the United States was a country. Sharks have been on Earth longer than trees! And then we have this: Dolphins have been known to protect humans when they’re in trouble. A California surfer was once being attacked by a shark when a group of dolphins surrounded him and escorted him safely to shore. Many people have been saved by dolphins in a similar manner and reports date back to Ancient Greece. In the Red Sea, a group of dolphins reportedly surrounded 12 divers who were lost for over 13 hours, repelling sharks living in the area. People aboard a rescue boat also reported that the animals seemed to be trying to show them where the stranded divers were. I'm ashamed to be part of a race that kills every damn thing without getting to know it. I'm sure we're not the most short-sighted species but we're pretty damn close.
Oct 30, 2024
5.0Recommendation to everybody who (weirdly) feels at home in the water. A nice overview over the diving reflex and what it does and actually means for our bodies. Seems that our species forgot how to use some handy senses we were born with. About the side-stories and research-facts in this book: I agree with everything. We need so much more research about the oceans. We need to stop overfishing. We need to stop whale hunting, shark killing ... killing any of these beautiful creatures. They're obviously intelligent. Regardless of my love for whales and dolphins, cases like this tear my heart in two: In 2007, a Bowhead whale was discovered with the end of a harpoon left embedded in its neck from a previous hunt. It was found that the harpoon tip was originally manufactured in 1890, indicating the whale had survived a human attack more than a century ago. Killer whales have been around about 11 million years. The Greenland shark can live to be 400 years old. Researchers discovered this longevity by carbon dating the sharks’ eyes based on the fallout from nuclear bomb testing in the 1960s, which means there are sharks in the ocean that were born before the United States was a country. Sharks have been on Earth longer than trees! And then we have this: Dolphins have been known to protect humans when they’re in trouble. A California surfer was once being attacked by a shark when a group of dolphins surrounded him and escorted him safely to shore. Many people have been saved by dolphins in a similar manner and reports date back to Ancient Greece. In the Red Sea, a group of dolphins reportedly surrounded 12 divers who were lost for over 13 hours, repelling sharks living in the area. People aboard a rescue boat also reported that the animals seemed to be trying to show them where the stranded divers were. I'm ashamed to be part of a race that kills every damn thing without getting to know it. I'm sure we're not the most short-sighted species but we're pretty damn close.
Oct 30, 2024
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