An oceanographer by profession, a romantic by nature, a citizen of the universe by calling. Slava Kurilov, once declared under a travel ban in the Soviet Union, didn’t accept this fact. In December 1974, he escaped from a tourist liner near the Philippines.
Without drinking water or food, without marine equipment, he had only a mask with a snorkel and flippers. About 100 km—he swam to the Philippine shore, spending almost three days in the ocean. This book is about the path to freedom, written by him himself.