Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves

“This book…has a million Post-it notes on it. Deep explores the ocean from its surface to its depths via the extreme sport of freediving, where divers descend as deep into the ocean as they can on a single breath. Nestor frames a freediver’s descent into the ocean through a closeup of the human body and what happens to it, in terms of the pressure on the body and the oxygen supply, and uncovers some stunning revelations. It’s an intimate, human look at diving. Nestor also looks beyond freediving into many other areas, including what can be found on the seafloor and why that matters to humanity.” Read more...

The Best Books of Ocean Journalism

Laura Trethewey, Journalist