#52: The Frontier Below: The Past, Present and Future of Our Quest to Go Deeper Underwater with Jeff Maynard

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Jeff Maynard is an author and documentary maker specialising in historical subjects. Jeff is renowned for uncovering little-known, or long forgotten historical events. His research is undertaken over many years, and he uses that research to reveal character driven stories.
I spoke to him about his latest book The Frontier Below: The Past, Present and Future of Our Quest to Go Deeper Underwater
Some of the topics we discussed includes:

• Why Jeff divided the book into 4 understandable ocean zones, and why illustrations of this in the past has been misleading.
• The diving bell
• The Epipelagic Zone and the first known why that people used to dive
• The creation of the diving helmet and how the compressed air led to its success.
• Is it fair to say that the ship wreckage revival business led to the exploration and the development of going deeper under water
• The creation of the bathyscaphe
• The mixed gas air system and what it helped achieve
• What does the future hold regarding our quest to go deeper?

The Book and Audiobook: The Frontier Below: The Past, Present and Future of Our Quest to Go Deeper Underwater is out now.
You can also find out more about Jeff and his projects via his website: https://www.jeffmaynard.net/

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