Talk Cocktail

The deep trouble of exploration


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From the undersea adventures of Jules Verne, to Peter Benchley’s The Deep to Jim Cameron’s The Abyss, we flock to movies and literature that takes place underwater.  We are fascinated by, but know so little about, the undersea world.  
In fact, a recent review of  James Nestor’s book, reminds us that if something disappears on Mars or the Moon, we’d have a better chance of finding it, than if it disappeared in the world’s oceans.
This fascination has given rise to whole groups of people that seek to explore in new and different, and sometimes dangerous, ways.  
That's the backdrop of James Nestor's Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves.
My conversation with James Nestor:
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Talk CocktailBy Jeff Schechtman

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