![]() ![]() ![]() Nestor is so engaged and Schnöller so engaging that you cheer for them: Deep is a passionate celebration of the possible and the unproven. ![]() The pasta strainer picks up what may be a sperm whale's "gunshot" click, used to stun prey at distance, a sound only recorded twice before. "When a man comes to the ocean he exploits it," one says, watching trawlers set sail, "When a woman puts her hands in the ocean that balance is restored."Īn adult sperm whale's clicks can kill: they are the loudest animals on earth. Nestor meets the last of the Ama, freediving Japanese fisherwomen who gather sea urchins. While industrialising peoples worked their way down through wooden cylinders, diving suits and submarines, archipelagic cultures preserved relationships with deep water based on a single breath. We have wanted to fraternise with fish for as long as we have wished to fly with birds. Initially readers may struggle to share the excitement of James Nestor, whose life was changed by the scene, but freediving becomes Nestor's way into the engrossing strangeness and scope of the oceans. The winner is a New Zealander who dives thirty storeys down and reappears looking bored. Some surface covered in blood, others unconscious, one is rushed to hospital. This idiosyncratic and illuminating book begins with a collection of oddballs competing to see who can hold their breath for the longest time while diving deepest. ![]()
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