Humanity and the Deep Ocean | James Nestor

James Nestor takes us into the ocean's depths with freedivers who go death-defyingly hundreds of feet below the surface without scuba gear. In researching it Nestor found there's much more to freediving than a thrillseeker's pastime. He details compelling insights about not only the ocean and its creatures, but about our own human senses and biology which await us in the Deep.

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Errata: At 7:40, James Nestor misspoke. He said that that seawater has more iron and less magnesium than human blood. The opposite is true. Mg concentration in human blood is about .8-1 mmol; Mg concentration in seawater is 53mmol. Fe in human blood is about 1650-4500 nmol/L; Fe is sea water is .1 nmol/L. Nestor regrets this error.

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