Catalog Search Results
1) Tortuga
Author
Description
Explores the meaning of pain and suffering in a hospital for crippled children.
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Description
A world-class explorer and diver offers an evocative study of the lure, thrills, and danger of scuba diving from the perspective of the tragic true story of the deaths of Chris and Chrisy Rouse, a father and son, from decompression sickness during a deep-sea accident.
Author
Formats
Description
After a diving accident, thirty-seven-year-old Ramie Phillips is waking up, trying to understand a voice in the distance: "Wake up!" It's her mother. "You're going to be late for school again. I'm not writing a note this time." Transported back in time to the eve of her eighteenth birthday, Ramie's experience is the the fantasy of every woman who's ever thought, "If I could go back in time, knowing what I know now, I'd do things so differently."
On...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Tom Haig recounts his amazing international diving adventures, heartbreaking accident, excruciating recovery, and eventually, his extraordinary return to always pushing limits, despite the wheelchair. In the process, he bares the unvarnished reality of permanent paralysis and inspires us all to take risks and live remarkable, generous, lives"--
Author
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
The author describes his inspiring recovery after a late-night dive into the shallow end of a pool rendered him paralyzed from the neck down, a recovery that has shattered the dim prospects his doctors predicted and also yielded a successful skin-care business, Clark's Botanicals.