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CAVE DIVING IN AUSTRALIA
Ian Lewis and Peter Stace.
Self published, South Australia
First edition 1980, second edition 1982. ISBN 0
9594963 0 0
A most valuable book and sadly outof print for many years.
Provides a detailed description of the many freshwater
caves and sinkholes in the Mount Gambier district of south-east South Australia,
one of the famous freshwater caving regions in the world.
Softcover, 174 pages, sketches of cave and sinkhole profiles,
history, level of expertise required, equipment, access.
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DEEP INTO BLUE HOLES
Rob Palmer.
Published by Unwin Hyman Limited; copyright 1989.
Hardcover, dustjacket.
Andros is one of the largest islands in the Bahamas and
one of the least explored. Beneath the sea's surface its rocks are riddled
with caves which present the ultimate cave-diving challenge.
It was not until the late 1960s that a diving team, led
by George Benjamin and filmed by Jacques Cousteau, ventured into these
caves for the first time. They explored passages and discovered that, owing
to the presence of stalactites and stalagmites, these caves must have once
stood above the level of the sea. In 1981 British cave-divers returned
to Andros to launch an ambitious expedition to set the wheels of exploration
turning once more. Their work was continued in 1987 by the setting up of
the Andros Project which, using new underwater technology, made stunning
discoveries. It is the spectacular Blue Holes they found, with their unique
collections of creatures and beautiful corals, on which this book focuses.
Rob Palmer describes how, over a succession of dives, he and his team explored
this maze of caves reaching subaquatic depths of over 300 feet (90m). He
reveals not only the excitement and magic of diving long and deep into
the unknown but also the danger, drama and fear which must inevitably be
a part of pushing through one of the last true frontiers of exploration.
Palmer is one of the world's foremost underwater explorers,
a director of the Andros Project. A freelance writer, diver and photographer,
he has also helped produce three films on Blue Holes for the BBC and National
Geographic television. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
and Explorers' Club, and was awarded the first Colin McLeod Prize for outstanding
contributions to international diving activities by the British Sub Aqua
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