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Author Finch, Phillip.

Title Diving into darkness : a true story of death and survival / Phillip Finch.

Publication Info. New York : St. Martin's Press, [2008]
©2008

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Location Call No. Status
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  627.72 FIN    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  363.14 FINCH    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  797.23 FIN    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  627.72 FINCH    Check Shelf
Edition First U.S. edition ;1st St. Martin's Press edition.
Description ix, 310 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (mostly color) ; 25 cm
Note Includes index.
Summary On New Year's Day, 2005, David Shaw traveled halfway around the world on a journey that took him to a steep crater in the Kalahari Desert of South Africa, a site known as Bushman's Hole. His destination was nearly 900 feet below the surface. On January 8th he descended into the water. About fifteen feet below the surface was a fissure in the bottom of the basin, barely wide enough to admit him. He slipped through the opening and disappeared from sight, leaving behind the world of light and life. Then, a second diver descended through the same crack in the stone. This was Don Shirley, Shaw's friend, and one of the few people in the world qualified to follow where Shaw was about to go. In the community of extreme diving, Don Shirley was a master among masters. Twenty-five minutes later, one of the men was dead. The other was in mortal peril, and would spend the next 10 hours struggling to survive, existing literally from breath to breath. What happened that day is the stuff of nightmarish drama, but it's also a compelling human story of friendship, heroism, ambition, and of coming to terms with loss and tragedy.--From publisher description.
Subject Deep diving -- Case studies.
Extreme sports -- Case studies.
ISBN 9780312383947
0312383940
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