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The Last Dive
- A Father and Son's Fatal Descent into the Ocean's Depths
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 16 hrs and 42 mins
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Summary
Chris and Chrissy Rouse, an experienced father-and-son scuba diving team, hoped to achieve widespread recognition for their outstanding but controversial diving skills. Obsessed and ambitious, they sought to solve the secrets of a mysterious, undocumented World War II German U-boat that lay under 230 feet of water, only a half day's mission from New York Harbor. In doing so they paid the ultimate price in their quest for fame.
Bernie Chowdhury, himself an expert diver and a close friend of the Rouses, explores the thrill-seeking world of deep-sea diving, including its legendary figures, most celebrated triumphs, and gruesome tragedies. By examining the diver's psychology through the complex father-and-son dynamic, Chowdhury illuminates the extreme sport diver's push toward - and sometimes beyond - the limits of human endurance.
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- BigD
- 25-07-20
Gripping
An awesome insight into the world of pioneering tech diving and the peril involved. Being a tech diver myself you can really feel their fear as Chowdhury describes what us going on.
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- Marty
- 18-01-22
Great book for divers
loved this book from start to finish and will listen to this over and over.
I feel like I've learned things just listening to this book.
You will really enjoy this book if your into diving.
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- John McCluskey
- 13-03-19
Insightful and Informative
Don’t think I have read anything which explains the risks and ultimate disregard of the same so well. Passion for diving but without sugar coating. A human and tragic story well written. Loved it.
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- Dr G.
- 29-04-19
Gripping, fascinating and horrifying.
The risks undertaken by technical divers are grippingly explained in this book along with their culture.
I found it horrifying to hear of the levels of mortality encountered in this sport as well as the incredible small margins for error.
I still find it difficult to understand how anyone could reconcile /conscience the risks with visiting underwater caves or penetrating wrecks but that is a personal opinion.
I arrived the information to form this opinion purely through the skilled and thorough account given in the book.
I was gripped by the narrative which has left me shocked, horrified and fascinated.
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- Jim Robb
- 04-11-19
Macho BS
Historically inaccurate drivel bordering on the libellous. I would like to see the evidence to back the claims the author recited regarding Churchill's involvement in the sinking of the Lusitania. America entered the war on April 6, 1917 two years after the sinking on 7 May 1915, what does that tell you?
Perhaps if the author had stuck to telling the story of the subjects of his book I may have appreciated it more, but he insists on spending huge swathes of his book telling stories of his own diving adventures, describing the feats of various "World Class," "pioneering," or "heroic" divers. It seems that any diver from the NE coast of the US is "World Class" just by virtue of turning up on the boat! The death toll of such divers in the book in not inconsiderable, death by greed, stupidity or incompetence, take your pick.
Another major annoyance for me in the audiobook which I listened to twice because I couldn`t believe some of the nonsense I heard the first time was the narrators constant mispronunciation of words, but that's not the worst, calling an Ecosystem an "Echo system" is not a simple mispronunciation, it`s completely the wrong word. Perhaps he was just reading what was written? I have no idea whether to blame the author or narrator for that one.
If by chance anybody actually reads this review and thinks to themselves "who is this guy having a go at the book?" you would be right in your pondering, I am a scuba diver, but by no stretch of the imagination on a par with any of the "World Class" divers between those pages, so what do I know? But then again, I`m still alive and have never seen the inside of a recompression chamber...
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