Éste es un libro sobre el mar. No se lee, se bucea. Trata de buscar la significación humana a través de nuestra presencia marina. La profundidad es una distancia donde se esconde la verdadera intimidad de uno. Cuando entramos en el agua se activan en nuestro cerebro muchos mecanismos que nos conectan con la parte de nosotros que nos define, que nos crea. Si bien el buceo a pulmón es uno de los modos para lograr esa sutura con uno mismo, el océano...

This is a new edition of Greg Louganis's 1995 #1 New York Times bestselling autobiography and Literary Guild Selection. It is the unflinchingly honest first-person account of a man breaking free of a lifetime of silence and isolation. Born to a young Samoan father and Northern European mother, and adopted at nine months, Greg began diving at age nine, and at sixteen won a silver medal at the 1976 Montreal Olympics. But despite his astonishing athletic...

Discover the life-transforming power of swimming! "Dive into Wellness" is your ultimate guide to unlocking the incredible health benefits of this age-old activity. Whether you're a seasoned swimmer or just dipping your toes into the water, this eBook is your passport to a healthier, happier you.Dive into Fitness: Immerse yourself in the world of aquatic exercise and experience a full-body workout like no other. Learn how swimming can help you shed...

El socorrismo en un medio acuático se desarrolla en un espacio donde conviven personas, de manera que, como en toda convivencia, surgen problemas de conducta entre usuarios, accidentes, etc. de ahí la importancia de estar preparados para cualquier situación, manejando las técnicas de primeros auxilios a la perfección, así como estar dotados de una formación y habilidades sociales que transmitan seguridad y confianza a cualquier persona necesitada...

An early-morning workout becomes an enchanting adventure when a record-holding swimmer reunites a baby whale and its mother. An inspiring, irresistible story for all ages, from the beloved author of Swimming to Antarctica. It's five o'clock in the morning and still dark. Swimming outside the wave break off the Catalina coast, training for her next long-distance swim (she has already crossed the English Channel twice), 17-year-old Lynne Cox senses...

The seventeen thousand islands of the Indonesian archipelago sweep across the single richest marine environment in the world. These warm, clear, uncrowded waters contain fully fifteen percent of the world's coral reefs, and support close to 4,000 species of fish. It is, indisputably, a diver's paradise. Periplus's critically acclaimed Diving Indonesia, now in its fourth revision, is the pioneer guide to this fascinating, and still little-known, island...

These Swimming Skills Will Save Your Life! Discover everything you need to escape your enemies and survive in the water. Inside this three-part training manual, you will learn: Efficient Swimming. Swimming lessons to swim faster and longer, including while swimming underwater. Water Safety and Survival. Learn the dangers of open water and how to survive in it. Water Rescue. Essential water rescue skills of others in pools and open water. Teach yourself...

THE RETICENT ARCHAEOLOGIST UNLEASHEDtells the story of Mike Wisenbaker's half-century-plus life journey, focusing mostly on the past fifty years. Although he is not famous (or infamous) enough to call for an exhaustive, in-depth autobiography, he's traveled down some captivating and challenging paths. He reveals many morsels about the mid-twentieth century to the present zeitgeist through the eyes of a baby boomer trained and groomed as an anthropologist...

Water provides buoyancy and resistance that you cannot experience when performing regular ground exercises The benefits of water aerobics is that it allows you to lose weight, relief pain, correct body posture, build muscles, increase bone density and lower blood pressure The calming sensation of water on our bodies helps to do wonderful things on, our mind It can also benefit obese, injured and elderly people For those that are struggling with...

The Olympic swimmer reveals the wild and challenging journey that took place between two gold medals. Anthony Ervin is an Olympic swimmer who won the gold at nineteen-and that may be one of the least interesting things about him. An athlete of Jewish and African-American descent who is also a practicing Buddhist, he auctioned off the medal he won in Sydney to help raise funds for victims of the 2004 tsunami. He had grown up battling Tourette's syndrome,...