This week’s video is from an interview with James Nestor – author of Deep.
Sounds from another world. Underwater footage and awe-inspiring first-hand accounts of divers who are swimming with sperm whales that are trying to communicate.
From author James Nestor’s 2014 talk at The Interval at Long Now. “Humanity and the Deep Ocean” from October 2014, one in an ongoing series of long-term thinking lectures: Conversations at The Interval in San Francisco.
Read James Nestors Book at Amazon
Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves
Fascinated by the sport of freediving—in which competitors descend great depths on a single breath—James Nestor embeds with a gang of oceangoing extreme athletes and renegade researchers. He finds whales that communicate with other whales hundreds of miles away, sharks that swim in unerringly straight lines through pitch-black waters, and other strange phenomena. Most illuminating of all, he learns that these abilities are reflected in our own remarkable, and often hidden, potential—including echolocation, directional sense, and the profound bodily changes humans undergo when underwater. Along the way, Nestor unlocks his own freediving skills as he communes with the pioneers who are expanding our definition of what is possible in the natural world, and in ourselves.
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