Ultimate Underwater Close Calls, "I didn't think I was going to make it out alive"
Ultimate underwater Close Calls is an eye-opening interview with Author, Film Maker, Cave Diving Instructor and Explorer Stratis Kas. tells us about his early days spending his summers growing up in the mountains of Italy, to learning to dive. He has combined both in his Travel Adventure Tourism, organizing some incredible trips to Italy and Russia.
Stratis has a love of cave diving and loves to take cave divers in the little known cave systems in Greece. He talks about his own close call and what it felt like to have time to think about the effect his death would have on his loved ones.
Thankfully Stratis managed to turn a potentially life-threatening situation into a positive. In this interview, Stratis tells us about a chance meeting with a fellow diver that had been in a similar situation. Stratis had always kept his story buried, but felt that if one single dive could learn from his error of judgment then talking would be a good thing.
And so the book Close Calls was born. It is an incredible book, with over 70 contributors, that reads like a who's who of the most famous divers around. And they all have one thing in common. They are all human and have made mistakes. To their absolute credit, they have all shared their story of that one dive that they didn't think they were coming back from.
Every diver, no matter what their competence level is, will learn from this book, Stratis tells us and 50% of all profits will go to DAN Europes' The Claudius Obermaier Fund, a charity that was created in 2004 by DAN Europe, to take care of those divers and their families who find themselves in difficult situations.