Name: The Loonliness of a Deep Sea Diver: David Harrison Beckett, My Autobiography
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Author: Beckett, David Harrison
ISBN: 9781785318863

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The Loonliness of a Deep Sea Diver: David Harrison Beckett, My Autobiography

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Physical Book

Author

David Harrison Beckett

Publisher

Pitch Publishing

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

288

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.7 x 14.1 x 2.2 cm

Weight

0.08 kg.

ISBN13

9781785318863

Edition No.

Synopsis "The Loonliness of a Deep Sea Diver: David Harrison Beckett, My Autobiography"

Imagine living in a box at the bottom of the sea for a month at a time. Locked away in a saturation chamber, plumbed to depths of more than 500 feet, this has been David Beckett's love, life, and work for all his adult life. Destined to become a pig farmer in the late 1960s, a twist of fate saw David become an air diver, and within a short space of time, he progressed to saturation diving. He would brush with death on more than one occasion - not least when helping to recover 47 bodies of the victims of the Sumburgh chinook disaster in Scotland's Shetland Islands - and when called in to assist with the deadliest peacetime shipwreck in Europe, as the MS Estonia sank in the Baltic Sea in 1994 and claimed 852 lives. Amongst the depths of despair, there are many lighter moments, including treasure hunting in the Philippines, almost clinching a contract to salvage the bursar's safe from the Titanic, and surviving a 24-hour typhoon that brought 80-foot waves crashing down on his boat. The Loonliness of a Deep Sea Diver is gritty, sometimes comical, and offers a unique glimpse into a life at sea, much of it at the bottom.

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