Dive Atlas of the World: An Illustrated Reference to the Best Sites - This global guide to the world’s top dive sites is an inspirational reference source for divers who wish to experience, personally or vicariously, the best diving the planet has to offer. Written by award-winning and experienced dive authors, coverage starts with the Atlantic, from the West Coast of North America, and proceeds west to east and north to south. For those inspired to travel to any of the featured sites or regions, the appendix lists all important travel and dive information, the best times to go, contacts, dive operators, and emergency facilities.
Brimming with superb underwater photography of famous wrecks, a wide range of marine habitats, and a huge diversity of species ranging from whale sharks to nudibranchs, DIVE ATLAS OF THE WORLD also features six large scale ocean/sea maps, and over three hundred comprehensive maps to all the best sites.
The Dive Atlas of the World offers a tour of the world’s dive sites, described and photographed by experts. From well-known classics to sites which have only recently been discovered, this global selection offers the discerning diver a feast of locations to choose from. Whether you favor muck diving and macro photography, wrecks, walls, reefs, caves, blue holes or the adrenaline rush of a high-speed drift dive in a strong current (or all of these), you will find well-written, clearly mapped accounts of the top places where you can enjoy these dives. With contributions from local experts, leading writers and award-winning underwater photographers including: Jack Jackson, Lawson Wood, Michael Aw, Paul Lees, Dr. Charles Anderson, Sam Harwood, Judy and Bruce Mann, and many more.
This is a really big coffee table size book that is stocked with information about dive sites throughout the world, Some parts of the world (Asia) are given more space than others (Carribbean), but overall, it touches all the bases. I like the way it took individual divesites and broke down the dives with temps, currents, difficultly status, and photos. The maps of the areas profiled is worth the price of the book alone (which is reasonably priced.) If you get one book to get an overview of what’s out there, this is agood place to start.
A Pictoral History of Diving - An exciting in-depth overview of diving procedures and equipment from ancient breath-hold diving to modern deep diving systems. The photographs were contributed from all over the world and are accompanied by explanatory text written by an international group of authorities who are acknowledged experts in their respective fields. The illustrations present the developmental history of the exploration of the underwater world. A beautiful full-color coffee-table book.
A Pictorial History of Diving provides a lavishly illustrated, brief, but comprehensive review of diving history, from early breath-hold diving and primitive diving bells to modern developments like ROV’s and the Newtsuit. Unlike many other books on the subject, it also includes information on underwater habitats and recreational gear. An excellent photo section on early dive helmets rounds out the history and provides some fuel for the imagination. A great coffee table book and serious reader in one volume!
Divester is hosting it’s first Photo Contest.
“In an effort to celebrate the joys of scuba diving, Divester is sponsoring its first-ever underwater photo contest.”
The rules are pretty plain and simple:
- The photo has to be your photo.
- The photo has to have been taken underwater.
What are you waiting for. Scoot!
The SeaLife ReefMaster is our camera of choice when we go diving. We’ve used it on a number of dives and love it - and it’s not leaked once! The farthest I think we’ve taken it was to 120ft. We’ll even take the camera out of it’s casing and use it for above water shots that turn out very nice.
The specs:
- 3.3-megapixel resolution for photo-quality 10 x 14-sized enlargements
- Includes macro set with 8x and 16x lenses; 2x digital zoom
- Rated to a depth of 200 feet; camera removable from housing for pictures out of the water
- Store images in 8 MB of internal memory or Secure Digital (SD) memory card (128 MB SD card included)
Product Description:
SeaLife DC310 Digital MAXX includes everything you need to take professional quality, underwater digital images. The MAXX inner digital camera is SeaLife’s 3.3 Mp DC310 that includes three exposure programs - Land, Sea and Sea with External Flash mode. The instant delete function practically guarantees great pictures even for a first time user. Shoot; review; keep or delete all with the push of a button. The MAXX is equipped with two external flashes that will light up the deep and capture spectacular underwater images with the brightest colors you ever imagined. The advanced dive housing is rubber armored and includes a full access control system, allowing users to manipulate resolution, light sensitivity, exposure modes and much more. The MAXX is depth tested to 200 ft. If you have been looking for the ultimate digital underwater system, the new SeaLife Digital MAXX is for you.
We vacationed for 2 full weeks in Bonaire in July 2006 - we love diving there! I have many photos to share from our diving adventures in Bonair - but this one is my favorite. I have a soft spot for sea turtles!
This photo was taken at the “Andrea I” dive site in Bonaire. I could’ve followed this guy around all day long, if only my air tank would’ve allowed for it!
