YA Sci-fi and fantasy author writing book with free diving leads

[GlazedRadiator]

Hello to everyone.

I grew up on a small island off of South Carolina with my grandfather and five siblings. As kids, our grandfather would not let us stay indoors as long as there was sunlight and so we made up games and sports to pass the time. One of our favorites was akin to a makeshift free diving competition, where we would see who could retrieve mud from the bottom as we moved further and further out from the marshy shoreline.

As an adult, I now live on Lake Michigan and have never lost my attraction to the deep.

I'm currently finishing a trilogy based on a teenager who is born of free diving parents. I'm still doing research on the art of free diving as I wish to keep those portions of the story authentic. I'm here hoping to understand what diving to great depths feels like (physically, mentally, spiritually), and the preparations/training required, etc.

Ultimately, I might ask one or more interested members to read the opening chapter of my first book which contains the most detailed account of a free dive in the series.

Best to everyone - I go beyond admiring what you do (obviously!), as it is the cornerstone of the world I've been writing about for a few years now.

Cheers,
Glazed Radiator

 

[Fondueset]

Hey Glazed.
I freedive in Lake michigan - drop me a line.

 

[GlazedRadiator]

Thanks very much. I will.

 

[Fondueset]

See article 'Meditation' on my site.

 

[EARL1220i]

welcome dive safe

 

[Salehthefish]

Hello and welcome on DB

All best

 

[GlazedRadiator]

thanks, all. i've been enjoying reading folks' dive stories in the different forums.

 

[cdavis]

Hi Glazed, Welcome to DB.

"Island off South Carolina" Pawleys by any chance? Spent a lot of my growing up time there.

Plenty of divers here who could help you. Fonduesets one of the best, if a little twisted.

Connor

 

[GlazedRadiator]

Wadmalaw Island. I've never been to Pawleys - what's it like? Wadmalaw's pretty isolated and unpopulated (well, it used to be more so, when I was a kid).
Thanks for the welcome.

 

[cdavis]

Don't know Wadmalaw, my geography south of Charleston is very limited. Pawleys is pretty populated. Was a summer retreat for rice planters before the Civil War. Simple and unpretentious in the 1930s-60s. Has gotten unpleasantly upscale in the last 30 years or so. My aunts had very simple beach houses there. Lots of relatives would spend a week or so at those houses and others and there was always room for one more kid. My goal was spend as much of every summer on the island as possible.