![]() ![]() He talks to researchers who study echolocation. (It’s unwatchable because only the first few seconds and last few seconds of each dive are visible.) He watches a team studying man-eating sharks off the remote island of Réunion. He attends a sport that is unwatchable-competitive freediving-off Kalamata, Greece. ![]() Nestor hangs out in Aquarius, the world’s only underwater habitat off Key Largo. “Two million years of human history, two thousand years of science experiments, a few hundred years of deep-sea adventuring, one hundred thousand marine biology graduate students, countless PBS specials, Shark Week, and still, still, we’ve explored only a fraction of the ocean,” Nestor writes. The essential premise is this: there is still a mountain to learn about the ocean. I wasn’t disappointed.ĭeep is fascinating from first drop to last. I first heard James Nestor on the podcast “Authors on Tour” (a great podcast, by the way) as he was giving an enthusiastic presentation at the Tattered Cover. ![]()
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