- Paperback: 168 pages
- Publisher: Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S. (1 Sep 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0789206099
- ISBN-13: 978-0789206091
- Product Dimensions: 29 x 21.1 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,366,348 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Full-color, three-dimensional maps of each dive site offer what no book has ever before provided: the information needed to plan your dive down to the last detail. You can review the exact layout of the site -- including depths, sizes, and distances between reefs and wrecks or any hazards -- and even the lighting conditions for optimum underwater photography. The short chapters covering the 26 dives in this book provide crucial data about depth, currents, weather variables, and plant and animal life, and each book ends with a full-color visual encyclopedia of the most common fish that inhabit the area.
The lively text by dive experts has been vetted by Diving Science and Technology Corporation (DSAT), which is a corporate affiliate of the Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI), making these the most reliable guides for the expert as well as the first-time diver.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Stephen Frink enjoys a high reputation as an underwater photographer and author. I have not previously heard of William Harrygan. I do feel their undoubted expertise would be better suited to another publisher because White Star have a habit of letting their authors down.
Unlike other Guides in this series, these authors have set out to describe the Cayman Islands in great detail. In addition, and most unusually, the text is quite readable. White Star publishing is based in Italy and, for whatever reason, books submitted in "English" are often translated into Italian before being translated back again. The results of this change and change again often make the text quite laughable. Not so in this case.
Altogether, we have a total of 36 sites from around Grand Cayman, Little Cayman and Cayman Brac. Each site is well described and supported with above average photography. On those occasions where the pictures are not quite up to standard, I honestly believe these are printing faults and not down to the photographer. Nevertheless, they do exist.
Each dive site is afforded a two-page spread of artwork which exists to explain each dive site more clearly than any words. Quite frankly, the standard of such paintings in diving books has improved to almost photographic quality in recent years whereas the benchmark set by this company continues to decline to abysmal levels. One star lost here.
Right at the end of the book, the publishers have insisted on adding those obligatory 24 pages of regurgitated padding from other books in the same series. This is unapologetic page-filling repeated ad nauseum in the form of artist's impressions of fish and invertebrates that look as though they are drawn by a child. The detail is not always accurate, the list of fauna is never complete and one often sees the same picture used in different books to describes different fish! This is where the publishers get to sell those same pages of bumf over and over again. Nobody is seriously identifying fish from these pictures. Another star lost.
Altogether this book has the qualities for a 5 star publication were it not for two important factors - both of which relate to the artwork.
NM
Unlike other Guides in this series, these authors have set out to describe the Cayman Islands in great detail. In addition, and most unusually, the text is quite readable. White Star publishing is based in Italy and, for whatever reason, books submitted in "English" are often translated into Italian before being translated back again. The results of this change and change again often make the text quite laughable. Not so in this case.
Altogether, we have a total of 36 sites from around Grand Cayman, Little Cayman and Cayman Brac. Each site is well described and supported with above average photography. On those occasions where the pictures are not quite up to standard, I honestly believe these are printing faults and not down to the photographer. Nevertheless, they do exist.
Each dive site is afforded a two-page spread of artwork which exists to explain each dive site more clearly than any words. Quite frankly, the standard of such paintings in diving books has improved to almost photographic quality in recent years whereas the benchmark set by this company continues to decline to abysmal levels. One star lost here.
Right at the end of the book, the publishers have insisted on adding those obligatory 24 pages of regurgitated padding from other books in the same series. This is unapologetic page-filling repeated ad nauseum in the form of artist's impressions of fish and invertebrates that look as though they are drawn by a child. The detail is not always accurate, the list of fauna is never complete and one often sees the same picture used in different books to describes different fish! This is where the publishers get to sell those same pages of bumf over and over again. Nobody is seriously identifying fish from these pictures. Another star lost.
Altogether this book has the qualities for a 5 star publication were it not for two important factors - both of which relate to the artwork.
NM
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Cayman Dive Book
27 April 2000
Format:Paperback
This is the absolutely best Cayman Island Dive Guide I have read and seen. It gives great details all of the best dive sites to visit. Has excellent detail on where to exactly go, water depths, plant and aquatic life in certain areas... An absolute must for the Cayman diving enthusiast.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Marginally better than most other Guides in this series.
5 April 2009
Format:Paperback
Stephen Frink enjoys a high reputation as an underwater photographer and author. I have not previously heard of William Harrygan. I do feel their undoubted expertise would be better suited to another publisher because White Star have a habit of letting their authors down.
Unlike other Guides in this series, these authors have set out to describe the Cayman Islands in great detail. In addition, and most unusually, the text is quite readable. White Star publishing is based in Italy and, for whatever reason, books submitted in "English" are often translated into Italian before being translated back again. The results of this change and change again often make the text quite laughable. Not so in this case.
Altogether, we have a total of 36 sites from around Grand Cayman, Little Cayman and Cayman Brac. Each site is well described and supported with above average photography. On those occasions where the pictures are not quite up to standard, I honestly believe these are printing faults and not down to the photographer. Nevertheless, they do exist.
Each dive site is afforded a two-page spread of artwork which exists to explain each dive site more clearly than any words. Quite frankly, the standard of such paintings in diving books has improved to almost photographic quality in recent years whereas the benchmark set by this company continues to decline to abysmal levels. One star lost here.
Right at the end of the book, the publishers have insisted on adding those obligatory 24 pages of regurgitated padding from other books in the same series. This is unapologetic page-filling repeated ad nauseum in the form of artist's impressions of fish and invertebrates that look as though they are drawn by a child. The detail is not always accurate, the list of fauna is never complete and one often sees the same picture used in different books to describes different fish! This is where the publishers get to sell those same pages of bumf over and over again. Nobody is seriously identifying fish from these pictures. Another star lost.
Altogether this book has the qualities for a 5 star publication were it not for two important factors - both of which relate to the artwork.
NM
Unlike other Guides in this series, these authors have set out to describe the Cayman Islands in great detail. In addition, and most unusually, the text is quite readable. White Star publishing is based in Italy and, for whatever reason, books submitted in "English" are often translated into Italian before being translated back again. The results of this change and change again often make the text quite laughable. Not so in this case.
Altogether, we have a total of 36 sites from around Grand Cayman, Little Cayman and Cayman Brac. Each site is well described and supported with above average photography. On those occasions where the pictures are not quite up to standard, I honestly believe these are printing faults and not down to the photographer. Nevertheless, they do exist.
Each dive site is afforded a two-page spread of artwork which exists to explain each dive site more clearly than any words. Quite frankly, the standard of such paintings in diving books has improved to almost photographic quality in recent years whereas the benchmark set by this company continues to decline to abysmal levels. One star lost here.
Right at the end of the book, the publishers have insisted on adding those obligatory 24 pages of regurgitated padding from other books in the same series. This is unapologetic page-filling repeated ad nauseum in the form of artist's impressions of fish and invertebrates that look as though they are drawn by a child. The detail is not always accurate, the list of fauna is never complete and one often sees the same picture used in different books to describes different fish! This is where the publishers get to sell those same pages of bumf over and over again. Nobody is seriously identifying fish from these pictures. Another star lost.
Altogether this book has the qualities for a 5 star publication were it not for two important factors - both of which relate to the artwork.
NM
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
The Cayman Islands Dive guide.
15 Oct 2008
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
What a great book to read. Tells all the dive spots on Grand Cayman.
This is a must for divers to review prior to diving.
This is a must for divers to review prior to diving.
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