"'Depth' - pre-order of freediving book launched!

Until recently, journalist James Nestor had no idea what freediving was. But when he was sent by his editors to the world championships in this discipline, he immediately understood that he had to investigate the secrets of this fascinating sport. That’s how the book ‘Depth. Freediving, rebellious researchers and what the ocean tells us about ourselves”, a book about the mysteries of the ocean and the absolute limits of the human body. Pre-sale of the publication, which will be released on 5 July under our patronage, has started!

The book is available for pre-order here.
– 28% discount – you save over 11 PLN!
– attractive packages
– shipping from 29 june – a book before the premiere in your hands!
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Excerpt from the book:

At 93 metres the nitrogen narcosis intensifies to the point where you forget where you are, what you are doing, why it is dark and where you came from. Hallucinations are common. One athlete told me that during a really deep dive, she completely forgot that she was underwater. In addition, she started having strange thoughts about her dog. She imagined that she was looking for him in some dark park. During the ascent, when the fumes of the nitrogen anaesthetic began to subside, she remembered that she did not have a dog.

Nitrogen narcosis doesn’t just affect the brain; it affects the whole body. You lose motor control. Everything around you seems to slow down.

And then comes the hard part. The beeping of your dive watch. It informs you that you have reached the depth of the plate attached to the end of the rope. You open your eyes, force your half-paralysed hand to unhook one of the tickets from the plate and turn back. The weight of the ocean works against you. You ride on reserve, the last of your strength. If you distract yourself now, choke or even hesitate slightly, you could lose consciousness. But you don’t hesitate or slow down. You kick the water with your feet and rush with all your might towards the light.

As you ascend 60 metres, 45 metres, 30 metres, the Control Switch slowly reverses its action: your heart rate quickens and the blood forced into the chest cavity is shunted back into the veins, arteries and organs. The lungs ache. The need to take a breath is unbearable. Everything blurs before your eyes and your chest convulses from the excess carbon dioxide. You must hurry or you will score a blackout. Up above, the flickering glow of sunlight finally breaks through the blue haze. You can do it. The air in your lungs expands rapidly, and your body tries desperately to pull the oxygen out of your lungs and pack it into your bloodstream. But there’s no more oxygen to pull out; you’ve already used up all of it. Your body literally sucks itself in. If the vacuum created proves too strong, you will lose consciousness. In a blackout state you can remain submerged for about two minutes.

At the end of the second minute, your body will wake up to draw one, your last, breath before you die. If you have been rescued and brought to the surface by then, you will take a breath, inhale the life-giving air and probably survive. If you are still underwater, your lungs will fill with water and you will drown. Up to 95 per cent of blackouts occur in the last four to five metres, usually as a result of the vacuum mentioned above.

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About the book:

Learn the unfathomable secrets of the ocean and the human body!

He couldn’t believe what he was seeing: a man had dived 93 metres on one breath and then returned to the surface four minutes later safe and sound. James Nestro had no idea what freediving was. But he already knew he had to investigate the secrets of this fascinating sport.

This is how “The Depths” came about – a book about the mysteries of the ocean and the absolute limits of the human body. About lungs that shrink to the size of a baseball. About a heart that beats slower than a person in a coma. People who hold their breath for more than five minutes. And whales that talk to other whales hundreds of kilometres away.

While working on this book, the author talked to freedivers, researchers and scientists. He decided to find out for himself how free diving changes people. In this way, he learned the truth about nature, the ocean and himself. And also about the phenomenon of the world’s most dangerous extreme sport, which claims dozens of victims every year.

Author: James Nestor
Title: The Deep. Freediving, rebellious researchers, and what the ocean tells us about ourselves
Original title: Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves
Release Date: 5 July 2017
Cover price: £39.90
Format: 140 x 205 mm
Number of pages: 352 text and 8 photos