Deep by James Nestor6/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() 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. 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. Covering a diving championship in Greece on a hot and sticky assignment for Outside magazine, James Nestor discovered free diving. ![]()
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