koozemani
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Neutral Buoyancy takes you through the history of man's conquest to conquer the sea. This history lesson is interspersed with his personal stories. Not extolling his exploits underwater, but poetic tales that have shaped his life and communion with the undersea world.
The history lessons begin with earliest recorded history of diving through it's use for salvage, science and warfare, up to the time where diving had it's earliest roots as a sport for pleasure. Included are chapters on sponge diving, both in Greece and Tarpon Springs, saturation divers, free diving, and frogmen. He includes enough info to be educational, but doesn't drone on long enough to be tedious.
In it's chapters, he includes interviews with such pioneers as Hans Haas and his wife, Umberto Pelizzari, Dottie Frazier-May, Bob Croft, some of the Navy divers involved with the SeaLab habitats, and others who, at the moment have slipped my mind.
To date, this is my new favorite book on the subject. It was both educational and a pleasure to read. It's always a breath of fresh air to read a diving book that doesn't focus on death. Granted those books, of which I have read several, have lessons to teach and have their place, but can be such downers.
The history lessons begin with earliest recorded history of diving through it's use for salvage, science and warfare, up to the time where diving had it's earliest roots as a sport for pleasure. Included are chapters on sponge diving, both in Greece and Tarpon Springs, saturation divers, free diving, and frogmen. He includes enough info to be educational, but doesn't drone on long enough to be tedious.
In it's chapters, he includes interviews with such pioneers as Hans Haas and his wife, Umberto Pelizzari, Dottie Frazier-May, Bob Croft, some of the Navy divers involved with the SeaLab habitats, and others who, at the moment have slipped my mind.
To date, this is my new favorite book on the subject. It was both educational and a pleasure to read. It's always a breath of fresh air to read a diving book that doesn't focus on death. Granted those books, of which I have read several, have lessons to teach and have their place, but can be such downers.