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If you are ready to get serious about SCUBA diving as a career choice, this book will be a fast-pass through some of the mental, motivational and administrative obstacles that many of us have had to overcome when becoming a diving professional.

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Surfing provides inspiration, a time for reflection, personal challenge and sheer exhilaration. This is especially true in NZ, where we have an affinity with the sea, and a disproportionately high number of artists, writers and musicians surf. Aaron Topp explores the role surfing plays in the creative lives of a selection of leading NZ artists.

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Why are growing numbers of young people taking up surfing, spending hours floating silently on their boards, studying wave patterns, and are ready to risk serious injury for a few moments of harmony with the ocean's force This work interweaves history and mythology to introduce the art of surfing.

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Flat Water Kayaker is the story of my time spent on and around the upper Musconetcong River watershed and surrounding waters in north west New Jersey. It explores my passion and expereinces kayaking local waters. It is the story of not only kayaking local but also how I developed my passion of the water and nature in general as well through sharing my encounters with the flora and fauna.

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What do novelist Tim Winton, classical violinist Richard Tognetti, and celebrity chef Steve Snow have in common. In a word, surfing. Profiles the surfing world's most intriguing characters.

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This classic book, first published in 1975, recounts one of the greatest small-boat journeys of all time: David Lewis's solo attempt to circumnavigate Antarctica in 1972-74 on his yacht 'Ice Bird'. During the journey he capsized three times and survived some of the most extreme conditions.

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Drawing on extensive (auto)ethnographic data, Immersion explores the embodied and social processes of becoming a marathon swimmer and investigates how social belonging is produced and policed

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Fourteen thrilling and important sea tales are brought together for the first time in this carefully edited collection.

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"Joe Garland has done a magnificent job telling not only the story of Gloucester's most famous son, but also the story of the fishing industry in its hey day. A wonderful, beautifully written book". SEBASTIAN JUNGER, author of THE PERFECT STORM

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A guide to planning a blue-water voyage whether on a budget or not. The book gives advice on: choosing a suitable boat; locating equipment bargains; priorities - for both safety and enjoyment; shorthanded watchkeeping; the human problems living aboard a small yacht; and budget provisioning.

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A story about human endeavour, testing the limits of physical and mental endurance and team cohesion. This is an account of the Volvo Ocean Race; a competition in which the participants must cover more than 32,000 miles in nine months and conquer the world's oceans.

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A collection of Des Sleightholme's observations on the nautical scene, this book includes the bloody-mindedness of marine engines, the dubious pleasures of sailing on a spring tide, skippers, launching, and novice crew. It contains several cartoon illustrations.

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ON the WINDS of DESTINY is a true story of a career woman who fell in love with a adventurous man.His dream was to sail around the world in his own sailboat. Betty had no boating experience and the thought of crossing the vast deep oceans and sea sickness, petrifies her; she doesn't want to go.

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A classics professor who fell in love with the sport of rowing during a typical mid-life crisis attempts to show why, with modern, historical, environmental and personal examples, the river calls to him. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

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Fewer people have rowed across the Atlantic than have climbed Everest. The author is among them. For 70 days he and his rowing partner ate, slept and rowed in a boat seven metres long and two metres wide, in one of the world's most extreme environments. This is his story of adventure, endurance and self-discovery.

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A survey of the seaworthiness of modern yacht designs.

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He ascended from a depth of 200 feet without breathing equipment to see if his lungs would burst, then studied the effects of underwater explosions by standing closer and closer until shattered by the blast.