These behemoths' brains are shockingly similar to our own and allow them to communicate using a click-based language. Freediving is the only way to see sperm whales up close and personal. And he lived to tell the tale.ĭeep is also figuratively breathtaking because it reveals some of the most awe-inspiring facts about our ocean that you’ll ever read. (Side effects may include death, blood squirting out of your nose, mouth, and eyeballs, and paralysis.) Herbert Nitsch, the world’s self-proclaimed “deepest man” dove more than 800 feet on a single breath without using a scuba tank. It’s literally breathtaking because it’s about freediving, AKA diving sans scuba equipment, an activity as awe-inspiring as it is dangerous. James Nestor’s book Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves is both literally and figuratively the most breathtaking book I’ve ever read.
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