My review of this book, I gave it four Good Reads stars: This is an incredible story. I didn't know people could dive as deep as the divers in this story were going. The dangers at those depths (in excess of 800 feet) are extreme and it's hard to understand why they would want to push those limits. I guess it's one of those things that if you have to ask why you won't understand. As a diver I tend to get a little nervous when getting down around 100 feet so reading about support crews on short dives hovering at 300-400 feet to aid on decompression stops was mind boggling to me. There is a fair amount of technical jargon so it might be a bit of a challenge for non-divers but if it sounds interesting I'd suggest at least giving it a try. It's a very exciting and fast read and my complaints are minimal. One is that it could have used another round of editing. Another is that the writer's style was a bit bland. He made some almost unbelievable information seem matter of fact. This is an odd criticism for me as I tend to be more sensitive to over dramatizations but a couple of times I thought he should have put a little more pizzaz into it.
This is an incredible story. I didn't know people could dive as deep as the divers in this story were going. The dangers at those depths (in excess of 800 feet) are extreme and it's hard to understand why they would want to push those limits. I guess it's one of those things that if you have to ask why you won't understand. As a diver I tend to get a little nervous when getting down around 100 feet so reading about support crews on short dives hovering at 300-400 feet to aid on decompression stops was mind boggling to me.
There is a fair amount of technical jargon so it might be a bit of a challenge for non-divers but if it sounds interesting I'd suggest at least giving it a try.
It's a very exciting and fast read and my complaints are minimal. One is that it could have used another round of editing. Another is that the writer's style was a bit bland. He made some almost unbelievable information seem matter of fact. This is an odd criticism for me as I tend to be more sensitive to over dramatizations but a couple of times I thought he should have put a little more pizzaz into it.