Caution: The following is not for everyone! This book has been known to lead to serious problems... such as AIDS (Aquatic Induced Divorce Syndrome) It's highly addictive, so you should jump to a different thread if you begin to shake uncontrolably.
DEEP DIVING by Bret Gilliam is An Advanced Guide to Physiology Procedures and Systems. It's a captivating book filled with not only history but... well all the stuff that's in the title.
The book opens with two great Quotes:
"Naturally, like any explorer, I have been asked what I intended to find, and whether it made any sense to take unavoidable risks... I did not expect to find pirate's gold in brass bound boxes. It's more the feeling of adventure, the great feeling of putting your foot where no other has been before."
Dr. George Benjamin
"Once a man has been bitten by the diving bug, he's done for. For there's nothing that can be done against this mania, either by fair means or foul. No nook or cranny seems safe from manfish, no cleft, no cave too deep or too dark. He seems to have a close affinity with the members of the mountaineering fraternity. The latter also risk their lives for an experience of a special kind... For them too, it is not really the rock face or the mountain that has to be overcome, but their own selves."
Hans Hass
If what you've read so far interests you, then this book is for you. Reading about Sheck Exley, Hal Watts, Brett Gilliam, Dr. Dan Manion, Jim Bowden Dr. Ann Kristovich and many other's is absolutely facinating. It gives you some insite to how the mind of the deep diver works. We're a different type of animal, one that's often misunderstood.
Anyone else out there who's read this one?
Happy Reading,
Mario S Caner
In2Deep
DEEP DIVING by Bret Gilliam is An Advanced Guide to Physiology Procedures and Systems. It's a captivating book filled with not only history but... well all the stuff that's in the title.
The book opens with two great Quotes:
"Naturally, like any explorer, I have been asked what I intended to find, and whether it made any sense to take unavoidable risks... I did not expect to find pirate's gold in brass bound boxes. It's more the feeling of adventure, the great feeling of putting your foot where no other has been before."
Dr. George Benjamin
"Once a man has been bitten by the diving bug, he's done for. For there's nothing that can be done against this mania, either by fair means or foul. No nook or cranny seems safe from manfish, no cleft, no cave too deep or too dark. He seems to have a close affinity with the members of the mountaineering fraternity. The latter also risk their lives for an experience of a special kind... For them too, it is not really the rock face or the mountain that has to be overcome, but their own selves."
Hans Hass
If what you've read so far interests you, then this book is for you. Reading about Sheck Exley, Hal Watts, Brett Gilliam, Dr. Dan Manion, Jim Bowden Dr. Ann Kristovich and many other's is absolutely facinating. It gives you some insite to how the mind of the deep diver works. We're a different type of animal, one that's often misunderstood.
Anyone else out there who's read this one?
Happy Reading,
Mario S Caner
In2Deep
I'll have to try that this year. Now all I have to do is figure out which of my friends needs a new dry suit in my size 
