Book review: One Breath

LAST year I developed a bit of a fascination with free-diving, though from the far and contrasting comfort of my city-dwelling 9am to 5pm routine.

So my plunge into this mysterious and mesmerising world of unaided, deep diving was done through reading.

James Nestor’s Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science And What The Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves hooked me in a way I’d not experienced with a book since possibly childhood and I wondered if any other freediving book could come close.