Product Description

"Diving with Giants" features the best places in the world's oceans and seas to dive with pelagic species. 'Pelagic' is a real buzzword for divers, and refers to the big, fast creatures of the open waters. This includes sharks, manta rays, dolphins, whales, barracuda, and so on. The book is strongly destination-driven, but themed around pelagic creatures. Thus, the Atlantic section includes, for example, diving with great white sharks off South Africa's Cape coast; the Red Sea features diving with dolphins, numerous shark species and whale sharks off Djibouti; the Indian Ocean features diving with manta rays in the Maldives, barracuda and tuna in southern Thai marine parks, and whale sharks off the Seychelles and Western Australia; the Pacific includes diving with sharks, pilot whales and rays off Malaysia; hammerhead sharks, greytip and whitetip reef sharks off Indonesia; manta rays off the Philippines; and the Caribbean features plenty of ray and shark action.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #35261 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 160 pages

About the Author
Jack Jackson, the consultant editor for the book, is an advanced BS-AC diver who ran a sport diving operation in the Sudanese Red Sea for 12 years. He has been diving exotic locations around the world ever since. An award-winning author and photographer, Jack has written and contributed to numerous books, including New Holland Publishers' Diving with Sharks, Top Dive Sites of the World, Diving the World's Coral Reefs, two scuba diving manuals and three Globetrotter Dive Guides.

Customer Reviews

Good book if you are planning to dive with pelagic species...
Beautiful quality pictures- and plenty of them!

It has a map of the world, so you can orientate yourself. It tells you a little bit on how to behave around pelagic species and mainly what and where you can see them. It emcompasses around "The Caribbean and Atlantic", "Red Sea and Indian Ocean", "Indo-Pacific", and "Greater Pacific". It also includes essential information- climate, best time to go and how to get there, water temp, visibility, quality of corals and marine life, depth of dives etc. It also has weblinks and further info and reading.

Found this book useful- but I am more blown away by the Shark Watchers Handbook- felt that that book also has given me information about these pelagic species (despite it being a shark watchers book).