Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World
Author(s): Tim Ecott
Days 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. Paperback (B-Format)
General Information
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- : Penguin Books, Limited
- : Penguin Books, Limited
- : 0.271
- : 30 May 2002
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Tim Ecott
- : Paperback
- : 376
- : 8pp b&w illustrations, bibliography
More About The Product
Tim 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.
Healing 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.
