Journalist James Nestor follows a group of athletes and DIY researchers as they plumb the ocean's depths. He travels from the shores of Japan to meet a tribe of women who have honed their bodies into deep-diving machines, to an island off the coast of Africa where renegade scientists are cracking the “click” communication shared by cetaceans. Nestor free-dives with dolphins, whales, and man-eating sharks, and rides to -2500 feet on a handmade three-man submarine. The journey ends at the seafloor, a crushing -28,000 feet below, where life on Earth may have one day begun. Along the way, they uncover the secrets and science of the ocean, our planet, and human evolution.
James Nestor has written for Outside, Men’s Journal, Dwell, the New York Times, Salon, the San Francisco Chronicle, and other publications. A frequent contributor to radio, he is the author of “Half-Safe,” published by the Atavist.
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