Swimming with Seals

Swimming with Seals
Author: Victoria Whitworth
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2017-04-20
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1784978361

Shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize 2018. This is a memoir of intense physical and personal experience, exploring how swimming with seals, gulls and orcas in the cold waters off Orkney provided Victoria Whitworth with an escape from a series of life crises and helped her to deal with intolerable loss. It is also a treasure chest of history and myth, local folklore and archaeological clues, giving us tantalising glimpses of Pictish and Viking men and women, those people lost to history, whose long-hidden secrets are sometimes yielded up by the land and sea.

The Warrior Elite

The Warrior Elite
Author: Dick Couch
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2003-01-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1400046955

With a postscript describing SEAL efforts in Afghanistan, The Warrior Elite takes you into the toughest, longest, and most relentless military training in the world. What does it take to become a Navy SEAL? What makes talented, intelligent young men volunteer for physical punishment, cold water, and days without sleep? In The Warrior Elite, former Navy SEAL Dick Couch documents the process that transforms young men into warriors. SEAL training is the distillation of the human spirit, a tradition-bound ordeal that seeks to find men with character, courage, and the burning desire to win at all costs, men who would rather die than quit.

Swimming with Giants

Swimming with Giants
Author: Anne Collet
Publisher:
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2000
Genre: Nature
ISBN:

In Swimming with Giants, Anne Collet describes the power and majesty of being close to some of nature's most magnificent creatures. Combining science with a sense of adventure, she conveys the sheer excitement of her work, from riding the tail of a white whale to saving animals harmed by drift nets or toxic spills.

Swimmers Among the Trees

Swimmers Among the Trees
Author: Joel Hutchins
Publisher: Presidio Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1996
Genre: History
ISBN:

We see SEALs on surveillance missions, overwatching the Ho Chi Minh trail, capturing enemy intelligence agents and calling in air and artillery strikes on their foe. We experience insertions into hostile territory by sea and air. We learn the various types of deadly equipment used by these elite Naval commandos in their never-ending pursuit of the enemy.

Raising Men

Raising Men
Author: Eric Davis
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2016-05-03
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1250091748

After Eric Davis spent over 16 years in the military, including a decade in the SEAL Teams, his family was more than used to his absence on deployments and secret missions that could obscure his whereabouts for months at a time. Without a father figure in his own life since the age of fifteen, Eric was desperate to maintain the bonds he’d fought so hard to forge when his children were young—particularly with his son, Jason, because he knew how difficult it was to face the challenge of becoming a man on one’s own. Unfortunately, Eric learned the hard way that Quality Time doesn’t always show up in Quantity Time. Facebook, television, phones, video games, school, jobs, friends—they all got in the way of a real, meaningful father-son relationship. It was time to take action. As a SEAL, Eric learned to innovate and push boundaries, allowing him to function at levels beyond what was expected, comfortable, ordinary, and even imaginable, and he knew that as a father he needed to do the same with his son. Meeting extreme with extreme was the only answer. Using a unique blend of discipline, leadership, adventure, and grace, Eric and his SEAL brothers will teach you how to connect, and reconnect, with your sons and learn how to raise real men—the Navy SEAL way.

The White Seal

The White Seal
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Publisher: Ideals Publications
Total Pages: 48
Release: 1985
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780824981181

A story about a white seal named Kotick who learns how to get along in his Arctic environment during his herd's first migration. For elementary grades.

Eight Dolphins of Katrina

Eight Dolphins of Katrina
Author: Janet Wyman Coleman
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 45
Release: 2013-08-06
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0547719256

This "heartening, real-life rescue story"* will grip young readers. On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina crashed a forty-foot tidal wave over the Marine Life Oceanarium in Gulfport, Mississippi. The dolphin house was demolished, and its inhabitants swept from their tank into the Gulf of Mexico. After growing up in captivity, how could the eight bottlenose dolphins feed and protect themselves in the wild? And if they could survive, would their trainers ever see them again? This fascinating picture book—enriched with both beautiful color-wash illustrations and photographs taken by the trainers themselves—tells this dramatic, happy-ending story. "Animal lovers will empathize as they follow the trainers' worries and ultimate elation." —School Library Journal*

Open Water Swimming Manual

Open Water Swimming Manual
Author: Lynne Cox
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2013-07-30
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0345806107

Lynne Cox has set open water swimming records across the world, and now she has focused her decades-long experience and expertise into this definitive guide to swimming. Open Water Swimming Manual provides a wealth of knowledge for all swimmers, from seasoned triathletes and expert swimmers to beginners exploring open water swimming for the first time. Cox methodically addresses what is needed to succeed at and enjoy open water swimming, including choosing the right bathing suit and sunscreen; surviving in dangerous weather conditions, currents, and waves; confronting various marine organisms; treating ailments, such as being stung or bitten, and much more. Cox calls upon Navy SEAL training materials and instructors’ knowledge of open water swimming and safety procedures to guide her research. In addition, first-hand anecdotes from SEAL specialists and stories of Cox’s own experiences serve as both warnings and proper practices to adopt. Open Water Swimming Manual is the first manual of its kind to make use of oceanography, marine biology, and to weave in stories about the successes and failures of other athletes, giving us a deeper, broader understanding of this exhilarating and fast growing sport.

Elephant Seal Island

Elephant Seal Island
Author: Evelyn Shaw
Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
Total Pages: 64
Release: 1978-10-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780060256043

Describes the cyclical visitations of elephant seals to Ano Nuevo Island in the Pacific Ocean and relates the experiences of a male pup from birth to early adulthood.