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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
Audible -----> $2.95 -- Deep -- James Nestor --> NF biology
* Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves
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With no disrespect intended for the audiobook--I'm sure that it's great--the topic of freediving is really one that lends itself much better to video, IMHO.
I saw a segment on
60 Minutes about 3 years ago now, of people freediving in some extremely deep hole, located just a very short distance from the shore, in Bermuda, the Bahamas, or somewhere like that. If memory serves me correctly, the participants, with one gulp of air, would try to descend to 100 feet, and make it all the way back to the surface successfully. There is one video segment of a man who successfully went down to the 100 foot mark, and reached the surface. but when he appeared on the surface, he had the most bizarre expression on his face that I believe that I have ever seen on a human being. He died shortly thereafter; no one on the team could figure out why. The whole video segment is nothing if not fascinating; I'm sure that you can find it somewhere on the Internet. If you have the least bit of hydrophobia, though, you probably
don't want to see the video segment about freediving, but by all means,
do get the audiobook and
listen to that topic, though, if you are able to.