Five Stars
James Nestor's Deep reveals accounts of untold worlds deep beneath the sea. These never before reported upon adventure stories are told in a first person by the dedicated and driven explorer who relentlessly pushed the limits of human endurance.
I loved the book and would strongly recommend it to those out there that want to broaden their knowledge base of our planets unexplored frontiers.
Excerpts from Deep:
Along with tiger and white sharks, bull sharks are responsible for more attacks on people than any other shark species on Earth.
Tzeltal a Mayan directional language spoken by about 370,000 people in southern Mexico in a dark house and spun him around blindfolded. They then asked the Tzeltal speaker (who was unnamed in the study) to point north, south, east, and then west. He did this successfully, and without hesitation, twenty times in a row. The remarkable navigational abilities of these ancient cultures weren’t exceptions; they were the norm. In a world without GPS and maps, knowing your exact location in a trackless desert, forest, or ocean was a matter of survival. All the people in these cultures developed an innate sense of direction that did not rely on visual cues.
Surfers know these are dangerous situations, but they go out anyway, then they blame the sharks, he said. People need to learn that when they are in the ocean they are swimming in nature. The only solution here is education: Don’t swim in cloudy water. Don’t swim after a big rain. Don’t swim near a river. But nobody listens.
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