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BENEATH SOUTHERN SEAS
The Story of Skindivers' Exploration of Southern African
Seas.
Tim Condon.
Published by Findiver - South Africa's Skindiving magazine.
No date, but suspect early 1970s.
Hardcover, justjacket, 288 pages, colour and mono prints.
The author seems to have an identity crisis - either
get out there and kill whatever you can find (the larger the better), or
see what you can scavenge on a shipwreck. There is a lot of spearfishing
and sharks in this book, and the photograph of the attractive young lady
holding up a very dead Spotted Moray with a smile, (on the girl, not the
moray), is not particularly appreciated. But overall, it is a great record
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CLASSIC DIVES OF THE WORLD.
Horace Dobbs.
Oxford Illustrated Press, 1987.
Quarto hardcover, 151 pages, maps, B&W and colour
photos. Dives in the Pacific, Indian, Atlantic Oceans, North Sea, English
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LAND OF A THOUSAND ATOLLS.
Irenaus Eibl-Eibesfeldt. |
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THE BLUE HOLES OF THE
BAHAMAS
Robert Palmer |
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SINAI DIVING GUIDE
Alberto Siliotti
Published by: Geodia, Verona, Italy in 2005.
Soft Printed covers, wire comb bound; 243 printed
pages. Dimensions: 24 cms tall by 17.5 cms wide
This is arguably one of the best dive guides for the
Northern Red Sea in Egypt. It covers the area of the Sinai including
Tiran, Sharm El Sheikh, Ras Mohammed, Gubal and Dahab. As well as
the reefs and wrecks of the area, there is a lot of other information given
like the origin of the name, its history as well a fish and coral guide.
There are 50 dive sites covered including reefs and several well known
wrecks including the Thistlegorm, Ghiannis D, Carnatic plus many more.
All the dive guide pages are “pull outs” making the guide pages almost
double the size of the book with some really informative diagrams and detail.
Extremely well illustrated with countless coloured photographs, tables
and drawings. An invaluable dive guide to the area. Not the
easiest book to find but well worth the effort. [pt]
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THE SKIN DIVERS TRAVEL GUIDE
PAN AM's guide to Snorkelling and Scuba Diving in Bermuda,
the Bahamas, the Caribbean, and the Mediterranean.
Gene Tinkler.
First published 1967, by Doubleday & Co, New York.
Hardcover, dustjacket, 338 pags, mono prints.
'By Pan Am jet clipper in just 6 hours.... ' No longer,
I'm afrid as Pan Am went down the tubes back in the seventies. Still, thgis
could be a rather interesting book for someone who has been to the islands,
and the Mediterranean.
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UNDER THE INDIAN OCEAN.
Al. J. Venter.
First published in 1973 by Nautical Publishing Company,
England.
Hardcover, dust jacket, 220 pages, mono and colour photographs.
Covers preedominantly the western Idnian Ocan (I don't
see the Maldives mentioned, nor Western Australia). Chapters include Shipwrecks
of the Seychells, Madagascar's West Coast islands, Mombasa's Santa Antonio
de Tanna, Agulha's Tanker Graveyard (fascinating), Mocambique reef,
East Africa's Marine Parks.
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UNDERWATER AFRICA
Editor. Al. J. Venter.
First published in 1971 by Purnell & Sons SA (Pty)
Ltd, CapeTown et al.
Hardcover, dustjacket, 164 pages, colour and mono prints.
Twenty chapers, by twenty authors, covers the exciting
wreck diving off the ASfrican coast. This is no a travel guide, but more
of a compendium of expereinces, some quite dangerous (The Savage Shark),
guesome (The Body Hunters), commercial (Day in the Life of an Undersea
Miner), and exotic (Top Secret Dive). A great read.
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