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MISCELLANEOUS DIVE TRAVEL BOOKS AND GUIDES
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Dive England's Greatest Wrecks
Dive England's Greatest Wrecks is a perfect companion for any diver interested in exploring England's most exciting shipwrecks, preserved as time capsules of an era of sea power and majesty that has now passed into the history books. Among the ten featured here are the Salsette off Weymouth, arguably Engalnd's most famous shipwreck; the SS Kyarra off Dorset; the British submarine M2 and the pre-dreadnought battleship HMS Hood, both lying off Portland; the American Liberty ship James Egan Layne off Plymouth; and the fabulous P & O liner Moldavia.
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Dive Scotland's Greatest Wrecks
Accomplished diver Rod Macdonald has carefully selected 10 of Scotland's most famous shipwrecks in this practical and authoritative guide. The story of the sinking of each vessel is dramatically recounted and accompanied by a detailed description of the wreck today. Each wreck is brought vividly to life by specially commissioned illustrations and the dives are depicted with charts and underwater photographs.
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DIVE - The Ultimate Guide
Scuba diving is one of the fastest growing leisure sports with over 20 million divers worldwide and around 500,000 new diver registrations last year. And DIVE the ultimate guide to 60 of the world's top dive locations really is the best selling guide with a difference that gives you all the information you need to choose the right destination.
- the best dives and marine life at each destination
- over 300 stunning photos and high quality maps
- packed full of practical travel information
- data tables to identify key facts quickly and easily
- water temperature, visibility
- local dive centres and dive governing bodies
- conservation and local safety information
- geography, local culture and visa requirements
- useful telephone numbers and websites
- and how to get there
- totally up-to-date one-stop reference guide
Whether travelling independently or with your preferred dive tour operator or simply interested in reading about the world's best dive locations, DIVE offers you everything you'd expect of a top quality guide, but with added extras that make it cutting edge.
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Underwater Gibraltar
Phil and Darren's book comes from the heart with their love of diving and special knowledge of Gibraltar. Whether you are a newly qualified or experienced diver, you will find the knowledge, research and information in this book shows just how diverse diving in Gibraltar can be, and its importance as a prime dive location.
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Underwater Guide to North Wales
Practical information for divers, snorkellers, boat-users and sea-anglers. Diving from the shore or from a boat. Al dives less than 30 metres.
Useful data on marine-life, conservation zones, wrecks, rocks, reefs and underwater caves.
Accurate directions and GPS positions.
Latitude, longitude and Ordnance Survey references given where approriate.
Detailed information on where to launch your boat, slack-water and other tidal information, local legislation, dangers, boat charters, air-stations and dive-shops.
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Scylla Reef Guide
The Scylla Reef guide is an extensive plan of the superstructure and the decks of Scylla, a former Royal Navy Frigate that was recently placed on the seabed in Whitsand Bay, south east Cornwall.
It also includes a wonderful marine life species guide, diving tips, and dive boat information.
It is printed in full colour, on Yupo waterproof paper and is not only a useful planning tool but also a great memento of this brilliant dive.
All the proceeds from the sales of these items after costs go towards the upkeep of the Scylla Reef for divers and the scientific programmes run by the National Marine Aquarium.
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100 Best dives in Cornwall
Charles Hood
This is the most comprehensive guide to diving in Cornwall covering both the north & south coasts and provides a detailed description of 100 top dives from Looe right round to Padstow.
Full GPS data is listed – accurate to a thousandth of a minute. The guide gives you all you need to know to enjoy some of the best diving in the UK.
It includes:
A complete round-up of launch sites suitable for divers
Contact details for where to get air
Essential safety tips
First-hand knowledge on how to get the best out of every dive based on more than 20 years of experience of diving in Cornwall
An up-to-date listing of charter boats
Accommodation advice form campsites to hotels
The guide has been compiled by Charles Hood, a highly experience diver, who has spent more than 20 years exploring Cornish waters and it includes nearly 200 of his fabulous photographs – both underwater and topside
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Guide to Shore Diving the Maltese Islands
Peter George Lemon
This dive guide is a comprehensive, full colour 208 page guide to 36 dive sites with aerial photographs, underwater plans and accompanying text. All this is well supported by marine life, wreck and other photographs. It is written with accounts of the authors experiences, who is an Advanced Instructor, local knowledge and information gathered over almost nineteen years and some 800 dives, as a dive guide, Instructor and for pleasure, in the Maltese Islands. Many hours have been spent underwater with a slate, pencil, compass and watch, mapping out the reefs of all the dive sites featured within this book. It has taken four and a half years to complete, visiting Malta many times, spending approximately eighteen months there on separate occasions during this time. This is a Must Have book for anyone diving in the Maltese Islands.
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SS Thistlegorm
John Kean
Here for the first time the true story of the Red Sea's greatest ship wreck is now revealed in spectacular detail in John Kean's SS Thistlegorm. Spanning a period of over one hundred years from the origins of Thistle Ships to present day diving on the wreck this explosive new book silences, once and for all, the rumours and speculation surrounding this famous and mysterious dive site that for the last ten years has attracted nearly a quarter of a million visitors from allover the world.
Packed full of never-seen-before photography, including the only two pictures known to exist ofThistlegorm on the surface, the book gives living eye-witness accounts of the ship's final hours through a series of exclusive interviews with survivors made by BBC freelance film producer, Caroline Hawkins.
The dramatic revelations of these interviews are contained, word for word along with scores of other experiences of life with the wreck during its wilderness years between 1941 and 1990. Even the Bedouin tribesmen have their story told and for the first time their incredible eyewitness accounts of events around Thistlegorm are recorded in print. A moving foreword is given by none other than the Captain's son, Iorwerth Ellis.
This amazing story of SS Thistlegorm reads like a fictional novel, however, all of the events and characters in this definitive book are very real. So, sit back and enjoy the most revealing..book ever written about the Red Sea's greatest ship wreck.
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