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Dive - the ultimate guide to 60 of the World's Top Dive Locations

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Dive really is the ultimate guide with a difference that gives you all the information you need to choose the right dive destination. With authoritative, in depth reporting on 60 of the world's top dive locations including detailed accounts of the best dives and marine life at each location, this beautifully designed guide is packed full of practical dive information and well-designed data tables that enable the reader to identify key facts easily and quickly.

Carefully planned and researched with author visits to most destinations during the past two years, Dive is totally up-to-date and well presented in a large page format that allows space for over 300 stunning colour photographs and high quality mapping of each location. It tells you everything you need to know about water temperature, visibility, local dive centres, dive governing bodies, conservation and important safety information, with useful telephone numbers and websites as well as general information about the geography of each location, local culture, visa requirements and how to get there.

All of which makes Dive the definitive `must have' reference guide for all keen scuba divers. Whether travelling independently or with your preferred dive tour operator, Dive offers everything you'd expect of a top quality guide, but with added extras that make it cutting edge.

DIVE - the ultimate guide
A new experience in scuba diving

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #186850 in Books
• Published on: 2004-09-01
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Synopsis
DIVE the ultimate guide to 60 of the world's top dive locations really is the guide with a difference that gives you all the information you need to choose the right destination: * 60 of the world's top dive locations brought to life * including top 10 shipwreck dives* 320 pages lavishly illustrated with over 300 colour photos and maps* local geography, marine life and the dives explained* important travel and safety information* dive centres, dive organisations and activities for non-divers* packed full of practical travel information and well-designed data tables* with local telephone numbers and websites Carefully planned and researched with visits to most locations within the past two years, this totally up-to-date one-stop reference guide has everything you need. Whether an aspiring beginner, expert diver or somewhere in between, 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.

About the Author
Author MONTY HALLS has been diving worldwide since 1984. An expedition leader, marine biologist and former Royal Marines Officer, in the last ten years he has led teams of divers around the world, including two epic circumnavigations to visit the world's greatest dives (2002) and the ten best shipwreck dives (2003). A regular contributor to Diver magazine, Monty has also written for BBC Wildlife magazine and other travel-related publications. He has also presented television programmes for Channel 4, Sky and National Geographic and was the winner of Channel 4's flagship programme `Super Humans' in February 2004.

Customer Reviews

A must for any diver
Wow! Monty Halls really knows his stuff. Dive - the ultimate guide is packed full of really useful information. I am only a newcomer to scuba diving but I can't stop myself picking up the book and flicking through it. I really love the way each dive location is covered in such an in-depth way with such great photos. The pages aren't cluttered by over design which means you get exactly the information you want. My partner is a more experienced diver and has used the book to plan several diving trips. Its just a pity that the book isn't bigger.

What a disappointment
When I first saw this book, I was impressed - nice page layout, good maps and wow, look at all those places I want to go. Then I got down to studying it and became more and more disappointed. Why, for example, does it have a few pages on Papua New Guinea but no dives from there? Yet in other chapters there are dives, not enough to give a real flavour of a place, but at least some. So it made me wonder whether the author has actually been to as many places as he claims and it's hard to tell. Certainly this is not an "ultimate" dive guide - how could it be when there are so few dives in it? It will be useful as a quick reference, but that's about it.

Simply indispensable
I've just purchased Dive The Ultimate Guide and what a fantastic buy it was. Love the maps, the travel facts, the photography and the enthusiasm with which Monty Halls describes each site. It's my new bible for diving and I'd recommend it to anyone at any level of diving - it gives inspiration for your next dive holiday as well as looking great on the coffee table (not that I EVER leave books out on show as it's naff ... although maybe with this I'll make an exception!). Buy it!