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James Nestor is a journalist who has written for Outside, Men's Journal, Scientific American, Dwell, National Public Radio, The New York Times, The Atlantic, San Francisco Chronicle, and others.

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Human blood has a chemical composition startingly similar to seawater.

Deep (2014)

The ocean is the last truly quiet place left on Earth.

Deep (2014)

It's going to a lot harder to kill an animal that's able to speak its name.

Deep dive (2017)

The nose is really the first line of defense.

Joe Rogan Experience #1506 (2020)

They're able to see better with sounds than we are able to see with our eyes.

Deep dive (2017)

Other than BASE jumping... freediving is the most dangerous adventure sport in the world.

Deep (2014)

We're born of the ocean. ...At the fifth week of a fetus's development, its heart has two chambers, a characteristic shared by fish.

Deep (2014)

So you can breath less and get more by breathing through the nose.

Joe Rogan Experience #1506 (2020)

Even if someone has a pulse-ox or... a heart rate variability monitor, you can breath in certain ways and instantly see what it does to your body.

Joe Rogan Experience #1506 (2020)

I swam with these animals about 4 years ago. Some friends and I had heard that off the coast of Sri Lanka these huge congregations of sperm whales would gather in March and April.

Deep dive (2017)

The less you use your nose, the less you're going to be able to use [it]... When people start habitually breathing through their mouths, their noses are going to start to close...

Joe Rogan Experience #1506 (2020)

These animals came up to us, welcomed us into their pods and started showering us with these clicks.

Deep dive (2017)

If you compare the ocean to the human body... current exploration... is equivalent to snapping a photograph of a finger...

Deep (2014)

Inside of these clicks is encoded information... a secret language...

Deep dive (2017)

I... signed up for an introductory course in breathing to learn... Sudarshan Kriya.

Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art (2020)

During the three minutes beneath the surface... the body bears only a passing resemblance to its terrestrial form and function. The ocean changes us physically and psychically.

Deep (2014)

An infant will reflexively breaststroke when placed underwater and comfortably hold his breath... longer than many adults.

Deep (2014)

They discovered that our capacity to breath has changed through... evolution, and that the way we breath has gotten markedly worse since the dawn of the Industrial Age.

Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art (2020)

[B]est of all, divers will tell you, "It's open to everyone."

Deep (2014)

I found out later that these clicks are actually used for communication. These animals also use them to see in the deep ocean. ...It's a form of sonar called echolocation.

Deep dive (2017)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: James Nestor (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.