World Within: True Account of the Diver Who Found a Prehistoric World by William R. Royal
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Overview: Consider how it must feel to find yourself the center of attraction for a very large circling tiger shark and when you fire your spear at the animal he takes spear and gun away from you leaving you wondering what you have to offer him when he returns.
This happened to the author, Bill Royal, off a reef in the South Pacific during World War II. Royal volunteered to dive daily in shark-infested waters to collect specimens for scientists trying to learn why the local fish population was toxic to eat. Non-poisonous fish became toxic wherever the Pacific military went. The reason scientists learned had to do with the World War II military habit of pushing trucks and other obsolete equipment into the ocean to extend runways. Toxic elements in the metals were eventually absorbed by the fish and passed on to humans who ate them.
Later, as a shark-catcher for Florida’s Cape Haze Marine Laboratory, Royal learns to capture the giants by hand to bring them in alive for scientists using sharks for human cancer research. While the original hardcover book—The Man Who Rode Sharks—details more about his adventures with sharks, this e-book edition focuses on Royal’s far greater contribution to science by alerting us to the fact that some large Florida springs whose underwater profiles resemble gigantic stone hour glasses actually held the remains of Ice Age animals and early man carbon dating back to 12,000 years BC, a fact so incredible to scientists in the early 1950’s that no one believed what he had found.
Genre: Non-Fiction > General
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