The Channel

A Swim. A Shark's Jaws. Survival.

By: Kevin Bachar

Narrated by: Diane Berendes

The author, Kevin Bachar, knows sharks, having filmed them for SHARK WEEK, National Geographic, and PBS NATURE. As an EMMY-award-winning Natural History documentary director, he’s found himself swimming with all shapes and sizes of sharks, including the great white. In his novel, THE CHANNEL, he takes his in-water knowledge of these extraordinary and frightening creatures and crafts a terrifying tale of survival. If the movies CAST AWAY and JAWS had a scary ravenous baby, it would be…

THE CHANNEL

Pilot Nicole Ardus leaves Hawaii with a group of avian researchers in her small plane. Their destination is a tiny island in the middle of the South Pacific. When the plane’s engine sputters out she’s forced to ditch in a roiling sea. Battling tempest storms, thirst, and sharks, Nicole and the survivors make it to a small atoll.

Soon, supplies are gone, survivors resort to treachery, and Nicole’s only hope for survival is to swim to a nearby atoll that might have life-saving supplies. But a shark patrols the channel between the two small spits of land, not just any shark, but a massive tiger shark. Fifteen feet long and ready to devour anything that crosses its path.

Will Nicole make it across THE CHANNEL?

©2025 Kevin Bachar (P)2025 Kevin Bachar

The audiologists voice carried this one!

An audio book is only as good as the excitement in the voice of the person who is reading it to you. Diane can take any story and make it interesting. Love listening to her read. The storyline was very good-perhaps a little long in parts, but with Diane’s expertise she pulled it off and made this book a seller.