Raising The Dead: An Australian Story Of Death And Survival

Raising The Dead: An Australian Story Of Death And Survival by Phillip Finch


ISBN
9780007275533
Published
Released
02 / 06 / 2008
Binding
Paperback
Pages
320
Dimensions
135 x 216 x 25mm

On New Year's Day, 2005, David Shaw travelled halfway around the world on a journey that took him to a steep crater in the Kalahari Desert of South Africa, a site known locally as Boesmansgat: Bushman's Hole.

His destination was nearly 900 feet below the surface. He had come to perform a task that many would consider macabre and controversial, under conditions that would be incomprehensible to almost every other human who has ever walked this earth. On 8 January, he stepped into the water. He wore and carried on him some of the most advanced diving equipment ever developed. Mounted to a helmet on his head was a video camera.

David Shaw was about to attempt what had never been done before, and he wanted the world to see. He descended. About fifteen feet below the surface was a fissure in the dolomite bottom of the basin, barely wide enough to admit him and his equipment and the aluminum tanks slung under his shoulders. He slipped through the opening, and he disappeared from sight, leaving behind the world of light and life.

Fourteen minutes later, a second diver descended through the same crack in the stone. This was Don Shirley, Shaw's friend and frequent dive partner, one of the few people in the world qualified to follow where Shaw was about to go. In the community of extreme diving, Don Shirley was a master among masters. Twenty–five minutes later, one of the men was dead. The other was in mortal peril, and would spend the next 10 hours struggling to survive.
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