Plunge

Tropical waters turn tumultuous in this travel memoir, as a free-spirited woman jumps headfirst into a sailing adventure with a new man and his two dogs. Join Liesbet as she faces a decision that sends her into a whirlwind of love, loss, and living in the moment. When she swaps life as she knows it for an uncertain future on a sailboat, she succumbs to seasickness and a growing desire to be alone. Guided by impulsiveness and the joys of an alternative lifestyle, she must navigate personal storms, trouble with US immigration, adverse weather conditions, and doubts about her newfound love. Does Liesbet find happiness? Will the dogs outlast the man? Or is this just another reality check on a dream to live at sea? ### Have you ever wondered how life could be if you had made different choices? If you didn't marry early, commit to a large loan for the house, focus on your career, start a family? Maybe you're just curious about how a person thinking outside the box manages? A person without boundaries, striving to be flexible, happy, and free. What you are about to read is how one such person follows her dreams, no, her intuition, and how she survives her naivety, life altering twists, and a relationship in close quarters. Plunge is a story of what happens when you go with the flow, when you have a bright idea - or thought you had one - and ride the waves of the unknown. Ready to hop aboard and delve in?

The thrill of plunging--or dipping a toe--into open water brings joy, confidence, adventure, and friendship. It can wash away stress and sadness, pain and grief. Here water is a great healer, a place to feel gloriously, elementally alive and in touch with yourself, with others, and with nature. Full of life-affirming personal stories and breath-taking images of scenery and swimmers, this bookcelebrates the remarkable wild swimming community. With practical advice on how wild swimming works and how to get started--from what you'll need (a swimsuit and a smile ) to where best to go (rivers, oceans, lochs, lakes . . .)--there's never been a better time to take the plunge.

Regular cold-water immersion can improve your physical health and emotional well-being. Whether you are an elite athlete, a bio-hacker, a health and fitness enthusiast, or someone who is trying to reboot your immune system, cold water might be the missing piece to enhance your results. However, if you live in a warm climate, what options do you have? Cold showers are a good place to start, but do not provide consistent temperatures year-round, and most people find them to be uncomfortable at best. Buying and hauling ice gets expensive and takes a lot of time. Cryotherapy chambers are inconvenient and expensive. Commercially built cold plunges can cost several thousand - or tens of thousands - of dollars. So, what is a great solution for the average person? Convert a chest freezer into a cold plunge! However, chest freezers are not meant to hold water. Creating a personal cold plunge from a chest freezer is fraught with potential problems and missteps. If you don't set it up correctly, you can damage or break your chest freezer, waste hundreds of dollars and countless hours of time, or worse, injure yourself. After two years of research and modifications and helping more than 1,500 people from 72 countries in a private online group, John Richter has created a guide book that helps you convert a chest freezer into a cold plunge while avoiding costly mistakes and frustration. The Ultimate Chest Freezer Cold Plunge DIY Guide helps you: - Select the best chest freezer - Design options for various budgets - Prevent rust and other damage- Choose equipment for easy use and maintenance- Keep your water clean- with or without chemicals- Be safe- Set the optimal temperature- Create a cold-water practice- Find the best training- Avoid costly mistakes- And much more Each chapter is easy to read and offers step-by-step directions. The book includes a buyer's guide, setup checklist, and a FAQ that answers more than 50 questions. This book is a must-have for professional athletes, students of the Wim Hof Method, followers of Dr. Jack Kruze, and anyone else who wants to take the benefits of cold training to the next level.

In a masterful work of cultural history, Charles Sprawson, himself an obsessional swimmer and fluent diver, explores the meaning that different cultures have attached to water, and the search for the springs of classical antiquity. In nineteenth-century England bathing was thought to be an instrument of social and moral reform, while in Germany and America swimming came to signify escape. For the Japanese the swimmer became an expression of samurai pride and nationalism. Sprawson gives is fascinating glimpses of the great swimming heroes: Byron leaping dramatically into the surf at Shelley’s beach funeral; Rupert Brooke swimming naked with Virginia Woolf, the dark water “smelling of mint and mud”; Hart Crane swallow-diving to his death in the Bay of Mexico; Edgar Allan Poe’s lone and mysterious river-swims; Leander, Webb, Weissmuller, and a host of others. Informed by the literature of Swinburne, Goethe, Scott Fitzgerald, and Yukio Mishima; the films of Riefenstahl and Vigo; the Hollywood “swimming musicals” of the 1930s; and delving in and out of Olympic history, Haunts of the Black Masseur is an enthralling assessment of man—body submerged, self-absorbed. It is quite simply the best celebration of swimming ever written, even as it explores aspects of culture in a heretofore unimagined way.

Sewer-loving secret agents Mango and Brash are plunged into a new mystery—and a BIG mess—in John Patrick Green's hilarious adventure-packed graphic novel, InvestiGators: Take the Plunge. S.U.I.T. headquarters is under attack, and Mango and Brash are going undercover and underground disguised as city sewer workers to unclog a sticky situation. But when their search for the criminal Crackerdile backfires, the toilets they travel through back up—and the InvestiGators take the blame for it! Can Mango and Brash restore their good name and put the real culprit behind bars before the whole city is in deep water?

Electra's finally taking the plunge. After all, her friend Lucy did it in France, Sorrel thought she had but hadn't after all, and Claudia, who's done it loads of times, has bet Electra she won't. She will, though. She's going to go out with the first boy who asks her. But what if he turns out to be a frog and not a prince?

Eddie is a star diver with confidence issues. He wants to join the swim team--but does the team want him? With the help of an alien friend, Eddie makes a splash. This graphic novel includes educational sidebars such as a quick history of diving, a social emotional tie-in, and a pro athlete biography. Backmatter includes an activity page and character information.