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Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Water sports & recreations > Swimming & diving > Sub-aqua swimming
There are spaces for the essentials: depth, time, gas, buddy, dive
site and other details, a brief description or sketch plus a dive
centre stamp. The covers feature original artwork of whales,
sharks, jellyfish and starfish by Bristol-based designer Bethan
Buss.
In Diving Gozo & Comino, local dive guide and instructor
Richard Salter shares his maps, experience and advice for 71 sites.
Photos above and below water, depths, durations and grades are
given - Easy, Advanced or Technical - to help you choose where to
dive. Put a copy in your glovebox and go! Gozo, Malta, has a
multitude of underwater attractions to explore from the shore or by
boat. Divers can see breathtaking caves, tunnels, wrecks, reefs and
bays. If you consider the profusion of marine life and good
visibility it is not hard to understand why the diving here is
consistently voted amongst the best in Europe. Richard Salter's
Diving Gozo & Comino covers a huge 57 dives on Gozo and 14 on
Comino, including (to name a few) the Blue Hole, Inland Sea and
Tunnel, Santa Maria Caves, Double Arch, Reqqa Point, Billinghurst
Cave and the wrecks Cominoland, Karwela, Xlendi Ferry and P31.
Original site maps include suggested routes, the location of
underwater caves and swim-throughs, depth and features. Photographs
from a variety of contributors show both Gozo's underwater scenery
and the topside landscape. Written by a vastly experienced resident
instructor and guide, Diving Gozo & Comino: The essential guide
to an underwater playground features both shore and boat dives,
including some sites which are very rarely explored. Whether
researching a self-guided trip or diving with one of Gozo's many
professional centres this book will help you to pick and plan safe
and fun dives. But not only that - Diving Gozo & Comino also
contains information about the island's rich history, fascinating
tourist sites, celebratory village festas and delicious original
food. * Diving Gozo & Comino includes changes caused by the
collapse of the Azure Window at Dwejra. Although an incredibly sad
loss, this natural event was just one of an infinite number which
have sculpted the coastline of the Maltese islands over the
millennia, as divers can see better than most. Underwater the
layout of the dive site was altered with the landscape containing
new swim-throughs and shallower parts, making it accessible to more
divers. The adjacent Blue Hole was unaffected.
This short story is about a recreational diver who spends a long
weekend in Key Largo, Florida at the Jules' Undersea Lodge.
Adventure and reflections follow.
Clues and evidence discovered at an underwater park in the Puget
Sound of Washington State lead divers and police officials to the
conclusion that the accidental death of a diver was no accident at
all. While the murder may be fictional, Bruce Higgins Underwater
Trails in Edmonds, WA is the largest volunteer diver constructed
and maintained underwater park on the west coast. The backgrounds
on the local sea creatures will bring new divers up to speed
quickly on cold water species, and hopefully the information will
be found to be interesting to seasoned divers. Hopefully, this book
is best read between dives, while crossing on a ferry, while on a
live aboard vessel, before visiting the Puget Sound, or just when
you feel like diving, but can't get the time off from the real
world.
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