![]() 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. 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. ![]() Sometimes they emerge unconscious, or bleeding from the nose and ears, and sometimes they don't come up at all. breathing equipment, for hundreds of feet below the water, for minutes after they should have died from lack of oxygen. ![]() 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. ![]() Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science and What the Ocean Tells Us About OurselvesĬovering a diving championship in Greece on a hot and sticky assignment for Outside magazine, James Nestor discovered free diving. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |