Showing Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World by Tim Ecott

Paperback. Pub Date: 2002 Pages: 376 Publisher: Penguin This title includes a illiant mix of Vivid reportage. History and science. Historical Diving bells Greek sponge divers world war two frogmen and record-setting the eath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks. weeping turtles. smiling dolphins and erotically shaped sea slugs. From Ireland to Florida. Papua New Guinea to Vienna and the Bahamas to Seychelles. Neutral Buoyancy is travel writing of the most fascinating. readable kind; providing a window - or a view from a glass bottomed boat - on a rich. unfamiliar and unique destination. Travel writing of this quality makes Neutral Buoyancy a must for all armchair travellers. not just divers.Contents: Healing waters; clutching at air - Fiji. South Pacific; organic gold - Tarpon Springs. Florida. Desroches Island. Amirantes; straightening the bends - County ...