Author: Bear Woznick
Publisher: Sophia
ISBN: 9781644135464
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Two-time Masters World Champion surfer Bear Woznick shares his pulse-pounding stories of ocean rescues, collapsing parachutes, and deadly encounters with sharks as a way to challenge you to go deeper with God and live a life of virtue. Bear is living proof that when people abandon themselves to God's providence, they become anything but soft, pastel versions of themselves. Rather, they discover the boldest, most rewarding way to live. Indeed, if you're eager to pursue God's will for your life, if you're tired of being spoon-fed trite messages about how you just need to be "nicer," this book is for you. In these inspiring pages, Bear shows you how to answer that call deep inside telling you that you were meant for more. He reveals how to live the bold and daring life Christ is challenging you to live. He'll coach you on how to avoid habits of vice and build in their place habits of virtue. He'll teach you how to pray while working at self-improvement -- and what true abandonment to God's will really means in your life. You'll learn how and why Jesus tests you and how to evaluate whether you're ready to "take up your cross and follow Him." Best of all, you'll learn how to react courageously when challenged by family and friends -- and by God Himself. Jesus is standing on the road beside you right now and asking, "Where are you going?" Are you ready to enter into Deep Adventure? Are you equipped to take up your cross and follow God? Are you prepared to let virtue propel you into the wild adventure of God's will? Are you ready to walk the Way of Heroic Virtue?
Author: Kevin F. McMurray
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439107424
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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An in-depth look at the danger of diving the Andrea Doria, the "Everest" of deep-sea diving, by an award-winning journalist and photographer. On a foggy July evening in 1956, the Italian cruise liner Andrea Doria, bound for New York, was struck broadside by another vessel. In eleven hours, she would sink nearly 250 feet to the murky Atlantic Ocean floor. Thanks to a daring rescue operation, only fifty-one of more than 1,700 people died in the tragedy. But the Andrea Doria is still taking lives. Considered the Mount Everest of diving, the Andrea Doria is the ultimate deepwater wreck challenge. Over the years, a small but fanatical group of extreme scuba divers have investigated the Andrea Doria, pushing themselves to the very limits of human endurance to explore her—and not all have returned. Diver Kevin McMurray takes you inside this elite club with a hard, honest look at those who go deeper, farther, and closer to the edge than others would ever dream. Deep Descent is the riveting true story of the human spirit overcoming human frailty and of fearsome, mortal risks traded for a hard-core adrenaline rush. Chronicling these adventures in his page-turning narrative and in dozens of dramatic photos, McMurray draws us deeper into the cold heart of the unforgiving sea, giving us a powerful vision of a place to which few will ever have the skills—or the courage—to go.
Author: Clive Cussler
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416516859
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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A dangerous Soviet plot looming behind the evil plans of a great Asian shipping family, challenges Dirk Pitt to action
Author: Bill Streever
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 031655135X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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In this masterful account in the spirit of Bill Bryson and Ian Frazier, a longtime deep-sea diver masterfully weaves together the science and history of Earth's last remaining frontier: the sea. In an age of unprecedented exploration and innovation, our oceans remain largely unknown, and endlessly fascinating: full of mystery, danger, beauty, and inspiration. In Oceans Deep celebrates the daring pioneers who tested the limits of what the human body can endure under water: free divers able to reach 300 feet on a single breath; engineers and scientists who uncovered the secrets of decompression; teenagers who built their own diving gear from discarded boilers and garden hoses in the 1930s; saturation divers who lived under water for weeks at a time in the 1960s; and the trailblazing men who voluntarily breathed experimental gases at pressures sufficient to trigger insanity. Tracing both the little-known history and exciting future of how we travel and study the depths, Streever's captivating journey includes seventeenth-century leather-hulled submarines, their nuclear-powered descendants, a workshop where luxury submersibles are built for billionaire clients, and robots capable of roving unsupervised between continents, revolutionizing access to the ocean. In this far-flung trip to the wild, night-dark place of shipwrecks, trapped submariners, oil wells, innovative technologies, and people willing to risk their lives while challenging the deep, we discover all the adventures our seas have to offer -- and why they are in such dire need of conservation.
Author: Sylvia A. Earle
Publisher: National Geographic Children's Books
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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The author relates some of her adventures studying and exploring the world's oceans, including tracking whales, living in an underwater laboratory, and helping to design a deep water submarine.
Author: PATRICK. STUART
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781999340346
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Tony Piedra
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338290495
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Where does true adventure come from? A young Latino boy and his grandfather find the true answer together. Eliot imagines sailing wild rivers and discovering giant beasts, right there on his block! But he wishes his adventures were real. Eliot's grandpa, El Capitán, once steered his own ship through dangerous seas, to far-off lands. But he can't do that anymore. Can Eliot and El Capitán discover a real adventure... together? Come find out! All aboard The Greatest Adventure!
Author: Josef Antòn
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9781419723513
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Seven different scenes in the forest ask readers to locate different animals, hidden in the illustrations.
Author: Dangers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Author: Samantha Wilcoxson
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781502928672
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Ten year old Edwin is surprised to learn that he will be travelling to America on the famous new Titanic. Even more shocking is that he will be going with grandparents he has never known. Why does his mother want to send him away? Edwin explores the ship, meeting men such as Thomas Andrews, Bruce Ismay, and Captain Smith. Along the way, he also learns secrets about his own family's past. When the ship sinks and Edwin ends up in a lifeboat separated from everyone he knows, he wonders if he has survived the worst only to be abandoned in the middle of the Atlantic.
