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Book of the Week: Deep: Shark-tagging

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James Nestor meets some of the world's scientific freedivers and goes shark-tagging.

James Nestor investigates the exhilarating world of freediving with some scientific divers and some shark-tagging. From 2014.

James Nestor's book 'Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves' begins at the surface and then plunges ever deeper into the unknown – until we are at 35,797 feet below sea level: the lowest point on earth. "Freedivers" come to the ocean to redefine the limits of the human body, swimming up to 400 feet below the surface for minutes at a time in a single breath.
 
Scientific adventurers take us even deeper when they explore Grand Canyon-like chasms no one has ever reached (alive) before, where life-forms flourish in 300 degree water with absolutely no light. None of it should exist, and yet it does. But how?
 
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Book of the Week: Deep

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American journalist James Nestor investigates the world of freediving.

American journalist James Nestor investigates the world of freediving, both competitive and scientific. Abridged by Pippa Vaughan.

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