Reviews
Essentially Entertaining
I’d go so far as to say it’s the most amusing book about the sub-aqua scene I’ve read since the heyday of Andy Blackford, and I know that because I kept laughing out loud as I turned the pages. Read more...
Primer for Future Divers
This is an invitingly illustrated book for bright nine-year-olds-and-up, designed to inform and enthuse them about the underwater world. Read more...
Two-Way Push
The book is a great read, though it could have done with a better title. Yes, it is about recovering gold, but when the salvage turned to the U-boats I felt a little lost before eventually being put back onto the “gold route”. Read more...
Big in the Indian Ocean
Underwater Eden – The Marine Life of Seychelles, by Christophe Mason Parker & Joe Daniels. Read more...
Divers Cooking It For Themselves
I was born into the hotel industry and later in life ran my own restaurant in northern Italy, on the shores of Lago Maggiore. Read more...
Slight But Unsettling
Book Review Slight But Unsettling Waiting For Gordo by Sue Knight Appeared in DIVER March ...
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The Never Ending Story
Book Review The Never Ending Story Titanic: A Journey Through Time by John P Eaton & Charles A ...
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Shaky Start, Solid Finish
Book Review Shaky Start, Solid Finish Twelve Mile Bank by Nicholas Harvey Appeared in DIVER ...
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Deep Steal by Mike Seares
Book Review A Book That Knows It’s A Film Deep Steal, by Mike Seares ...
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Cutting Through The Medspeak
Scuba Physiological is an e-book promoted as a review of some of the latest thoughts on scuba physics and physiology Read more...
Dive Weekends in South West England
Anita Sherwood has delivered another well-polished, neatly presented UK dive-guide that is a tidy follow-on book from her Read more...
Cage Dive
The movie that divers detest above all others, Open Water, a story of folks left by their dive-boat to float around with the sharks, Read more...
Finding The Best Fish Id App
In the first of a new occasional series, HENLEY SPIERS samples and scores dive-related apps on the market Read more...
The First 60 Years of Scuba Diving
Phil Thurtle, who put together this ringbound mono-printed document, is perhaps being realistic in saying that he assumes Read more...
Operation Tadpole
John Bevan has written a fair few books and monographs covering various aspects of diving history, and his Read more...
Sea of Life
Hot on the heels of the recent environmental documentary Chasing Coral, reviewed in these pages (One-Sided But Right-Sided, September) Read more...
Deep Thinkers: An Exploration of Intelligence in Whales
For anyone who has ever felt mildly nauseous when reading books by authors who find dolphin smiles and whale song endlessly spiritual, Read more...
In the Company of Seahorses
For most of us, ”cryptic” is a word we associate with crosswords, but for the biologist it has the specific meaning of an animal Read more...
Blue Planet II: A New World of Hidden Depths
This BBC book has to kick off our review section this month, because while it is essentially an accompaniment to the main course Read more...
The Isles of Scilly in the Great War
Part of a series of books called Your Towns & Cities in the Great War, this is a history as opposed to a diving book Read more...
In the Company of Seahorses
For most of us, “cryptic” is a word we associate with crosswords, but for the ecologist it has the specific meaning of an Read more...
Chasing Coral
Lembeh Strait is the go-to part of the world for muck-diving, but sometimes it seems to excel even itself. STEW SMITH Read more...
The Darkness Beckons & Dive Scapa Flow
THESE TWO BOOKS are both available in updated versions this summer – and they’re both crackers. Such is the classic Read more...
Nicole: The True Story of a Great White Shark’s Journey into History
A FEW YEARS AGO a female great white shark, nicknamed Lydia by the scientists who had tagged her in Florida Read more...
Taking Another Line
THIS BOOK MUST HAVE BEEN another labour of love for Sam Warwick (above left), a technical diver based in Australia and Read more...
TDI Intro to Cave-Diving / Cavern Diver Underworld Tulum, Mexico
LIZ SAVILLE was a classic example of an experienced diver content in her comfort zone. And then she agreed to go to Read more...
