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by Joseph Emmanuel
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Joseph Emmanuel has been a technical diver and instructor for more than 14 years and a member of two teams of extreme deep/cave divers for most of that time.From the Foreword:"Fourteen minutes to descend, thirty-one decompression stops to look forward to. My first decompression stop was at 190 metres...
Yachting Monthly's Expert Sailing Skills
No Nonsense Advice That Really Works
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Become a better yachtsman with the help of Tom Cunliffe and Yachting Monthly. There are plenty of sailing and seamanship skills that don't feature on the syllabus of even the most advanced official sailing course - and a wealth of wisdom can be found in these pages. There's advice on everything from...
Manoeuvring
At Close Quarters Under Power
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
This is a unique, practical, hands-on guide to boat manoeuvring.
Manoeuvring a yacht under engine at close quarters in a marine of close
to other (expensive!) boats can be a daunting prospect for the
inexperienced skipper - but it has to be done in order to take your
boat off a pontoon to go...
Little Ship of Fools
Sixteen Rowers, One Improbable Boat, Seven Tumultuous Weeks on the Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
The dramatic and hilarious story of risk and survival, as well as the importance of our connections to the planet, on a human-powered journey across the ocean
It was to be an expedition like no other—a run across the Atlantic from Morocco to Barbados aboard an experimental rowboat. There...
by Daniel Chee
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
I first joined the fishing tackle industry as a fishing rod engineer for Shimano, this was later followed by the role of Product Manager for the fishing division. I have since moved on in my career; but as all fishermen know, you can never quite be really that far from what's true to your heart;...
Lone Wolf
How Emirates Team New Zealand stunned the world
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
On 26 June 2017, on the turquoise waters of Bermuda's Great Sound, Peter Burling (26) became the youngest ever helmsman to win the premier trophy in sailing, the America's Cup. Amongst several other firsts, the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron became the first club ever to win back the America's Cup...
Oxygen
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
LEARN THE POWER OF THE HUMAN MIND FROM THE WORLD'S GREATEST FREEDIVER One of the most mesmerising books about the ocean you'll ever read...
New Zealander William Trubridge has reached depths never thought possible on the precipice of low oxygen.
In a sport where failure usually means...
by Daniel Hardie
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water… a shadow that swims from left to right, a shimmer a silver... Was it some kind of fish, a seal, perhaps a dolphin?
Nope! It’s the world’s most effective and efficient predators… sharks! Come face to face with Jaws and his...
Chad le Clos
Road to Glory
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
‘Chad took a deep breath. He pulled on his goggles, pushed them up onto his forehead and slipped on his swimming cap. It was time for the men’s 200 meter butterfly final at the London Olympics of 2012. This was the moment he had been dreaming about for over a decade.’
This is the story...
Schooner to the Southern Oceans
The Captain James Cook Bicentenary Voyage 1776-1976
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Gordon Cook set out from Plymouth with his wife Mary and their two very young children, Sue and Jon, to repeat the third and last voyage that Captain James Cook made in 1776. The bicentenaries of Captain Cook’s first two voyages in 1963 and 1969 had both passed with little or nothing to celebrate...
by Cecil Kuhne
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
“The wind was blowing at hurricane strength-sixty-five knots and over-and increasing in the gusts to eighty knots. His boat was surfing on waves as high as a sixty-foot, six-storey building. . .Each wave that struck choked and froze him, the icy water working its way down inside his survival suit.”...
Sabbatical at Sea
A Family sets Sail
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
They are a normal family with a normal family life – until the day REGINA happens. A wonderful sailing yacht, which minimizes doubts and fears and makes dreams come true. Packed with humour and self-irony, absolutely understandable and with extreme honesty, the author Leon Schulz describes, how...
MoonWind at Large
Sailing Hither and Yon
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
~~~ More delightful nautical yarns from Constant Waterman ~~~
Matthew “Constant Waterman” Goldman and his sailboat "MoonWind" constantly roam the waters of southeast New England, where these stories are centered. Each tale is short and sweet and imbued with a wry smile, a gentle bemusement,...
Speed to Glory
The Cullen Jones Story
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
He conquered the thing that nearly took his life At five years old, Cullen Jones nearly drowned. While some people might stay away from water after that, Jones conquered his fear when his mother enrolled him in a swimming class. Not only did he learn to swim, he quickly found that he was a good swimmer…...