Raising the DeadPhilip Finch
Raising the Dead
by Philip Finch · first published 2008
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Raising the Dead: A True Story of Death and Survival by Philip Finch is a book that does a good job detailing the perils of diving.
on “The disappearance of the world’s greatest free diver (2015)” ↗Online journalism, but nevertheless: "Raising the Dead" about cave diving - https://www.outsideonline.com/1922711/raising-dead (ignore the sentence or two at the beginning about ghosts) "The Paradox of the Proof" introduced me to Mochizukis "proof" of the…
on “Ask HN: Best Longform Articles?” ↗Before this became the de factor standard in tech dive computers, advanced divers would often do the same and fill their units with mineral oil. For anyone interested in how this can go wrong, Raising the Dead - a book about scuba diving at its limits - has a passage about a rescue diver repairing his dive computer in the field, re-filling the oil, and noticing that he'd lost a drop or two in the process, with…
on “Hacking the Casio F-91W to Handle 1000 Psi” ↗