2015 Schedule
Interactive: March 13–17  •  Film: March 13–21  •  Music: March 17–22

Deep: What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves

Sunday, March 15
3:30PM - 3:50PM

Austin Convention Center
Ballroom G
Austin Convention Center

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While on assignment in Greece, journalist James Nestor witnessed something that confounded him: a man diving 300 feet below the ocean’s surface on a single breath of air and returning four minutes later, unharmed and smiling.

This man was a freediver, and his amphibious abilities inspired Nestor to seek out the secrets of this little-known discipline. In Deep, Nestor embeds with a gang of extreme athletes and renegade researchers who are transforming not only our knowledge of the planet and its creatures, but also our understanding of the human body and mind. Along the way, he takes us from the surface to the Atlantic’s greatest depths, some 28,000 feet below sea level. He finds whales that communicate with other whales hundreds of miles away, sharks that swim in unerringly straight lines through pitch-black waters, and seals who dive to depths below 2,400 feet for up to eighty minutes—deeper and longer than scientists eve...

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James Nestor

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Type
Book Reading
Theme
Global Impact and Policy
Level
Intermediate

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