Bottom Time:The Adventures of a Commercial Diver
and over one million other books are available for Amazon Kindle .
Learn more
| |||||||||||||||
 Trade In this Item for up to £0.25
Trade in Bottom Time: The Adventures of a Commercial Diver for an Amazon.co.uk gift card of up to £0.25, which you can then spend on millions of items across the site. Plus, get an extra £5 when you trade in books worth £10 or more until June 30, 2012. Trade-in values may vary (terms apply). Find more products eligible for trade-in.
|
Frequently Bought Together
Product details
|
Product Description
Product Description
Join author Norbert Weissinger as he narrates his most memorable dives, starting with his first scuba dive while attending college, to the grueling work in the Gulf of Mexico as a commercial oilfield diver. Experience the thrills, terrors, mystifying beauty, and awful monotony of life at sea. Meet the colorful and eccentric personalities that risk their lives daily in the development of offshore oilfields. Commercial divers go under water every day to earn a living. Strangely, they enjoy the abuse of the sea, and if they survive a ten-year career, they can take home a wealth of memories about a world that few have ever seen. Bottom Time is filled with travel anecdotes, dive narratives, and vivid descriptions of the undersea world. While working on the sea floor was sometimes lonely and frightening, the author experienced sublime moments when he felt privileged to be a visitor to an alien realm. The triggerfish, tarpon, groupers, sea turtles, and barracuda became his friends, and he wished that bottom time would never end. After spending countless hours under water, the author found not only beauty and exotic marine life, but inspiration. Life spent on the bottom is truly living in the moment, where past and future dissolve, and nothing matters but a breath.
About the Author
Norbert Weissinger was born in Germany and grew up in Pennsylvania. He attended Penn State University where he majored in Biology. After college he enrolled in a commercial dive school in Oakland, California. He has logged more than 500 commercial dives in depths ranging from 40 to 200 feet. Diving for work or pleasure has taken him to many parts of the world including Mexico, Central America, Hawaii, the Philippines, Thailand, and Malaysia. He currently lives in Arkansas and works as a database administrator. This is his fourth book.
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I really enjoyed this book. It is a great read even if you are not a diver. When I bought it, I was looking for a job and thought it might give me some inside information on the industry. I was not disappointed.
Format:Paperback
Started out mildly interesting, then turned into the most boring book I have ever read. This review comes from someone with a great interest in diving, who was after an insight into the commercial world. Wrist slitting reading.
Format:Paperback
My son's wife now has some understanding of why divers are a wierd subspecies. Really well writen and really capture the spirit of working offshore
Would you like to see more reviews about this item?
Were these reviews helpful?
Let us know
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
|
