One in the ocean: the history of the escape. Kurilov S.V.

This story is often called one of the most striking and dangerous adventures of the 20th century. Glory to Kurilov, a professional oceanographer, wanted to see the whole world, and his native country did not let him further than its borders. Then he jumped in the middle of the ocean from the side of the cruise airliner. He sailed.

“In a sense, he embodied both the Gumilev reader and his hero who challenges fate at the same time. The Russian intelligentsia is not a trace of their heroes: there are not many of them. The one who reads this book will never forget the pages in which the glory of the Kurilov, covered in three days and three nights of lonely swimming with luminous microorganisms, slides in a Pacific night, raising a heap of fire with every movement; Here it is, the image of an eternal rebel ”(Vasily Aksenov).