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

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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