Down Time: Great Writers on DivingEd Kittrell, Casey Kittrell, Jim Kittrell More than 35 passages from novelists, journalists, poets, playwrights, essayists, and scientists detail an intertwined passion for diving and the written word in this collection. From Robert Stone's portrayal of a diver who faces the terrorizing prospect of his air running out to Clare Booth Luce's search for the treasures of the underwater realm, every passage reveals a perspective of the world that only divers have known. Humor columnist Dave Barry battles a lobster and explains why staying on the ocean's surface is like "going to the circus and staring at the outside of a tent". From Rangiroa to the Red Sea, from deep within caves to the eerie light under ice, from the lethal silliness of nitrogen narcosis to the elation of soaring over unfathomable depths, every selection, like every dive, is a unique experience. |
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... thing , a certain thrill is gone . We don't like to give up our thrills . I have told people about the fact that certain sharks and moray eels and barracuda are not dangerous and watched their faces fall , then tighten , grow pinched ...
... thing , a certain thrill is gone . We don't like to give up our thrills . I have told people about the fact that certain sharks and moray eels and barracuda are not dangerous and watched their faces fall , then tighten , grow pinched ...
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... thing , if you don't have a card certifying that you've been properly trained , reputable dive shops will not rent ... things ? So I grab it , and I'm trying to motate on out of there , but it gets one tentacle wrapped around a rock ...
... thing , if you don't have a card certifying that you've been properly trained , reputable dive shops will not rent ... things ? So I grab it , and I'm trying to motate on out of there , but it gets one tentacle wrapped around a rock ...
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... thing I came for : the wreck and not the story of the wreck the thing itself and not the myth the drowned face always staring toward the sun the evidence of damage worn by salt and sway into this threadbare beauty the ribs of the ...
... thing I came for : the wreck and not the story of the wreck the thing itself and not the myth the drowned face always staring toward the sun the evidence of damage worn by salt and sway into this threadbare beauty the ribs of the ...
Contents
William Beebe | 1 |
Clare Boothe Luce | 15 |
Elizabeth Friedmann | 24 |
Copyright | |
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