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A Nevada family of scuba divers has prototyped an underwater fort – an anchored air pocket in a net – at the secret location at the bottom of a lake in the Sierras. And it’s been there for three years!
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Jacques Cousteau showed audiences undersea life like they had never seen it before. But just as remarkable as the seascapes he photographed are the vehicles he used to access them: repurposed battleships, saucer-like subs, and of course, the aqualung.
Want to take Joel’s advice to heart and learn how to scuba dive? PADI is the place to do it. [PADI]
In 1955, Jacques-Yves Cousteau and film director Louis Malle sailed 12,000 nautical miles aboard the Calypso to film the first underwater colour movie. A year later, they showed everyone a whole new world, and the exhilarating freedom of diving.
There are two experiences in life that never fail to give me pause: riding in a plane, looking at the earth and the patterns of nature and civilisation; and strapping a tank of air and diving in the sea.
Looking for a good read? This oldie-but-goodie from Outside magazine tells the story of Dave Shaw, a deepwater diver who swam more than 244m down into a freshwater cave to retrieve the body of a fallen diver.
