The Unofficial Guide to the World’s Best Diving Vacations
Product Description
This new and exciting guide will help both novice and experienced divers plan the underworld trip of their dreams. All types of diving environments are included, from coral reefs and kelp forests to shipwrecks, caverns, and caves. It includes exciting dives for advanced divers and also features:The best places to get certified and the top-rated dive centers worldwideDiver-friendly lodging from affordable to luxurious, plus other adventures to take while on shoreFrom the Back Cover
The Series with More Than 4 Million Copies Sold! From the publishers of The Unofficial Guide® to Walt Disney World® “A Tourist’s Best Friend!” Chicago Sun-Times “Indispensable” The New York Times The Top 10 Ways The Unofficial Guide® to the World’s Best Diving Vacations Can Help You Have the Perfect Trip:18 premiere worldwide diving destinations described and evaluated including the Caribbean, Hawaii, Australia and beyondOver 200 fantastic dive sites, from coral reefs to shipwrecksRegional profiles of each destination, including history, statistics, and advice on international travel and local customsDestinations are rated for water and weather conditions, dive site conditions, and abundance of marine lifeDives for every experience level and inclinationExtensive information on protected marine parks, refuges, and reservesDetails on dive services and packages, including resorts that cater to diversDive shops near every dive are rated for service, equipment, and facilitiesLocal medical facilities and how to access them in emergency situationsLodging, dining, and entertainment options for your time back on landGet the unbiased truth on hundreds of hotels, restaurants, attractions, and more in The Unofficial Guide® to the World’s Best Diving Vacationsthe resource that helps you save time and money, and makes your trip the best it can be. An Unofficial Guide Great trips begin at frommers. com
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Lonely Planet Diving & Snorkeling Monterey Peninsula & Northern California
Product DescriptionThe nutrient-rich waters off the Northern California coast support a kaleidoscope of colourful fish and invertebrates sheltered by dense kelp forests, underwater canyons, inshore pinnacle and offshore rocky reefs. Playful sea lions, harbor seals and sea otters are just a few of the other attractions that divers regularly enjoy. This book describes 46 of the best scuba and free-diving sites throughout Central and Northern California – including Monterey Bay, Carmel Bay, and the Big Sur, Sonoma and Mendocino coasts – with full-color photos throughout. You’ll get specific information on:Dive site depth range and conditions Common and hazardous marine life Diving services, campgrounds & state parks Equipment and safety, plus expert advice on underwater photography 10 easy-to-read maps
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The Simple Guide to Snorkeling Fun
Review
An excellent book on how to use, select and enjoy snorkeling equipment and tips for more fun when snorkeling. — Dive Training Magazine 2002
Product Description
A solid introduction to snorkeling fun. Mask, fins, and snorkel are the three most basic items of diving equipment that can be used whether you choose to remain on the surface to make your underwater discoveries, or whether you plan to plunge into the depths. You can use the same gear no matter where your diving adventures take you. Using snorkeling gear, you can swim with the dolphins, explore sunken ships, or capture your own lobsters for dinner.
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Deep Descent: Adventure and Death Diving the Andrea Doria
From Publishers Weekly
McMurray’s is an earnest journal of deep-sea wreck diving, mostly over the Italian passenger liner Andrea Doria, which sank in a collision off Cape Cod in 1956. The Doria still draws extreme scuba divers 235 feet down to “the Everest of scuba,” where, over the last 20 years, 12 divers have met their deaths. After a Night to Remember-style introduction to the ship’s history, the author turns his talents as a journalist and diver (he has reached and explored the Doria hulk several times) to question why inverse mountaineers still come back to the wreck. McMurray renders a shared obsession, mostly through fuzzy sketches of expeditions to the wreck in the 1980s and ’90s, and follows a dozen divers down to the Doria. Yet his descriptions are uninspiring; even the accounts of fatal dives are flat (despite a multiple-photo series of a body being hauled to the dive boat). His we-band-of-brother-divers tone can’t substitute for description or character; indeed, it proves an obstacle to thoughtful storytelling. McMurray the scuba diver never quite admits to McMurray the journalist-observer that divers visit the Andrea Doria because of not in spite of the risks. 75 b&w photos. (June) Forecast: Despite the current public fascination with dangerous sport, this book won’t appeal to the uninitiated. McMurray could become a sort of Sebastian Junger-esque celebrity he holds a world record for swimming around the island of Manhattan except that his book can’t compare with The Perfect Storm. It is for fellow scuba samurai only. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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From Library Journal
In 1956, on her maiden voyage to New York, traveling at 21 knots in thick fog, the passenger liner Andrea Doria collided with the Swedish steamship Stockholm and sunk 160 miles off the coast of New York. McMurray, a skilled diver and adventure journalist who has written for Outside, Yankee, Men’s Journal, Rock & Ice, and the New York Times, chronicles the underwater exploration of the wreck site by amateur divers in search of souvenirs. Because the Andrea Doria lies at a depth of 235′, divers visiting the wreck exceed the maximum safe depth of 130′ recommended for scuba diving and must use special dry suits and exotic breathing gear to avoid the “bends” when resurfacing. Two dive boats, the Wahoo and the Seeker, specialize in charter expeditions to the site, and though they are skippered by experienced and responsible crews with the latest equipment, there have been 12 deaths associated with the wreck. McMurray describes his own underwater experiences visiting the wreck and interviews crew and dive buddies so that he can vividly re-create each fatality. The result is a good history of noncommercial deep diving and a solid account of the sinking of the Andrea Doria. Exciting and powerful, this account is highly recommended for public libraries. John Kenny, San Francisco P. L. Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Diving and Snorkeling Guide to Southern California
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This guide includes tried-and-tested sites, as well as some that are off the beaten track. Each site has been selected because of consistently good visibility, variety of underwater flora and fauna, proximity to the shore and ease of access for divers. Details include bottom terrain and currents.
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