Into the Abyss: Diving to Adventure in the Liquid World - Couverture rigide

Macdonald, Rod

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1840187182 ISBN 13 : 9781840187182

Editeur : Mainstream Publishing, 2003

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Into the Abyss is a fascinating collection of diving stories. It chronicles one man's all-consuming passion and takes us on a spellbinding journey beneath the waves. Packed full of drama, danger and excitement, this book charts both the successes and the tragic failures of Rod Macdonald's astonishing diving career.

Macdonald invites us to experience with him his first, panic-stricken boat dive as a newly qualified novice and later his expert use of the latest technology to venture deeper than ever before. In vivid prose, he takes us to famous shipwreck sites around the world, from the sunken Japanese fleet at the bottom of Truk Lagoon and Palau in the South Pacific, to HMS Hampshire, on which Lord Kitchener perished. He describes the ordeal of diving the third-largest whirlpool in the world, the Corryvreckan Whirlpool in the west of Scotland, and many other terrifying incidents in which he and his colleagues have come close to death beneath the sea.

To many, the appeal of diving into hostile, powerful waters in search of virgin shipwrecks - often in pitch darkness - is incomprehensible. Macdonald invites us to confront and overcome some of our deepest fears as he takes us down into the abyss.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Rod MacDonald is a lawyer and the author of the bestselling Mainstream titles Dive Scapa Flow, Dive Scotland's Greatest Wrecks and Dive England's Greatest Wrecks. He specialises in wreck-diving research and has written for most international diving publications. He lives in Stonehaven with his wife and two daughters.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Mainstream Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1840187182
• ISBN 13: 9781840187182
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240