title: Diving into Darkness: A True Story of Death and Survival
author:  Phillip Finch 
description: Starred Review. In this gripping account, Finch (<i>F2F</i>) narrates a disastrous attempt to recover a body nearly 900 feet underwater in a South African crater named Bushman's Hole. David Shaw, an Australian pilot for Cathay Pacific, became obsessed with diving in his early 40s and quickly became a world-class deep diver. In South Africa, Shaw trained with renowned diving instructor Don Shirley, and the two men grew close. Shirley was a proponent of diving rebreathers, sophisticated pieces of equipment that allow divers to reach greater depths while using less equipment. In 2004, Shaw dove to the bottom of Bushman's Hole, where he discovered the corpse of a diver that had lain there for a decade. Together, Shaw and Shirley decided to try to raise the body. Finch seamlessly weaves together the various strands of his story, from the character biographies to the dangers and arcane technologies of deep diving. An experienced cave diver himself, Finch brings the reader into a strange and hermetic underworld that few have ever experienced firsthand. In deep diving, he demonstrates, even the smallest breakdown in judgment or equipment will bring catastrophe. Although the outcome is never in doubt, Finch manages to build suspense to fevered intensity. <i>(Oct.)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  # Wicked Challenge
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Darkwater Reformatory Book Two
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Marty Mayberry
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  WICKED CHALLENGE
  
  
  Darkwater Reformatory, Book Two
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © 2020 Marty Mayberry
  
  
  
  
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  
  
  
  
  No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or
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  without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief
  quotations in a book review. Names, characters, events, and incidents are a
  product of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to an actual person,
  living or dead is entirely coincidental.
  
  
  
  
  
  ASIN: B087C66XS8
  
  
  
  
  
  _Hummingbird Press_
  
  
  
  
  
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  # Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Shadowspell Academy