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'It is quiet and cool and dark blue. At this depth the pressure on my body is double what it is at the surface: my heartbeat has slowed, blood has started to withdraw from my extremities and move into the space my compressed lungs have created. I am ten metres underwater on a breath-hold dive, suspended at the point of neutral buoyancy where the weight of the water above cancels my body’s natural flotation. I turn head down, straighten my body, kick gently, and begin to fall with the unimpeded gravitational pull to the heart of the Earth.' (Introduction)
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‘There are no words that fit tragedy. Nothing we can say. We do not want to be told everything is all right. It is not.’ – Patrick Holland, ‘Silent Plains’ (2014)
‘Its constituents are – everything.’ –Victor Hugo, Toilers of the Sea (1866)
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- 2017 winner The Calibre Prize
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