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The gripping biography of a man who spent over 10,000 hours underwater, built submersibles and an underwater house, recovered buried treasures from wells and seas, and researched the coelacanth and other fascinating life forms: Hans Fricke's book is an adventurous diving story, a lively research report, an eco-thriller - and a poetic declaration of love for the underwater world.

When he was 11 years old, he made diving equipment out of a fire extinguisher and a gas mask. Later, he escapes from the GDR to dive in the Red Sea, covering the distance to Egypt by bicycle: Hans Fricke has been an obsessive marine explorer and diver all his life, even the death of a friend does not dissuade him.And he is a visionary, a "maker possible" whose enthusiasm is extremely contagious - who else manages to build an underwater house and two submersibles without his own financial means. As a student of Konrad Lorenz, the founder of behavioral research, he literally slips into the scales of fish, explores reefs, coelacanths, the mysterious eel migration or the organisms at Iceland's underwater volcanoes. 

But in the course of his life, Fricke also becomes a salvager, retrieving crashed airplanes from the water, a historian, getting to the bottom of the Nazis' largest money counterfeiting operation in Lake Toplitz, diving as a treasure hunter in the world's deepest well, and the first to venture into the permanent darkness of the alpine lakes in a submersible. He has closely observed many of his research areas over decades, making him one of the most important documentarians of marine ecology.

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