xi, 303 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 25 cm
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Descent -- On a breath -- Under pressure -- Saturated -- Submerged -- The robots -- An ocean in need.
Summary
In Oceans Deep celebrates the daring pioneers who tested the limits of what the human body can endure under water: free divers able to reach 300 feet on a single breath; engineers and scientists who uncovered the secrets of decompression; teenagers who built their own diving gear from discarded boilers and garden hoses in the 1930s; saturation divers who lived under water for weeks at a time in the 1960s; and the trailblazing men who voluntarily breathed experimental gases at pressures sufficient to trigger insanity.
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