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Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures In A Liquid WorldStock informationGeneral Fields
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DescriptionDays after his mother's funeral, Tim Ecott went scuba diving for the first time. What began as a way of deflecting his grief became a life-long obssesion. Laced around the author's story are tales of historical diving bells, frogmen and Greek sponge divers, conveying the appeal of exotic places. Author descriptionTim Ecott joined the BBC World Service as a producer and correspondent in news and current affairs. A specialist on Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean he spent two years based in the Seychelles where he developed a parallel career as a dive leader. He lives in Richmond, London. Table of contentsHealing waters; clutching at air - Fiji, South Pacific; organic gold - Tarpon Springs, Florida, Desroches Island, Amirantes; straightening the bends - County Down coast, the Irish Sea; advanced French - Freeport, Bahamas, Farquhar Island, southern Indian Ocean; flickering images - Vienna, Austria; in the shadow of the fire god - the Mismarck Sea, western Pacific; chariots of war - Long Beach, California, Perevil Ledges, Dorset; habitats - Conception Arena, Seychelles; hell's teeth - the Bahamas, western Atlantic; diving free - Santa Teresa di Gallura, Sardinia; meeting of minds - Brissare Rocks, Seychelles. |