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This is an exciting new diving guide covering dive sites in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Explore the wreck of the E39 submarine off Pembrokeshire or the stunning Cathedral Rock off St Abbs to the Unknown Coaster in Portland Harbour. In this title, 100 dives are described in detail from easy shore dives to more demanding boat dives. Dive locations are fully illustrated with specially commissioned maps and diagrams together with full colour photography throughout. All dives are above 18m and suitable for all levels of experience from novice to technical diver. The United Kingdom has some of the best diving available in Europe offering a mixture of scenic reef dives and spectacular wrecks. Wherever you are in the United Kingdom you are only a short distance away from one of these spectacular dives.
About the Author
Patrick Shier is a PADI MSDT who runs a successful dive school on the Kent/East Sussex border. He often arranges shore and boat dives around the UK coastline, taking newly qualified divers on their very first sea dive. He is a regular contributor to Sport Diver Magazine.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Being relatively new at the diving scene (50+ dives), both my wife and I were looking to test British diving at first hand. We bought the book, primarily because we are fans of Mr Sheir's magazine articles, most of which have been covering the same topic. My wife is a little nervous of deeper recreational diving so this book seemed perfect!
We have not been disappointed. Each site has a short history of the area and how the wrecks came to be, a description of how to get there, what to look out for when on the dive and special instructions that the author thought relevant for each site - what more could the diver need in a guide!! We especially like the little maps which in our experience are accurate and very helpful. The author has obviously done his homework in preparation for the book and we like his personal reviews of each site which are a continuation of his excellent magazine articles.
I am not sure that the previous reviewer read the product description before buying the book, as I thought it quite obvious that the book covers coastal and offshore dives. Along with the comments about Stoney Cove above, Dosthill is also a quarry dive that goes down to 24m, so I don't think that qualifies, either, as an above 18m dive site. Although he feels there are only 2 sites in Northern England, when you consider all the Welsh, Scottish and Irish sites included, there is quite a spread throughout the UK. Of course not all parts of the coastline will be suitable dive sites either. It is a little farfetched to expect ALL the UK dive sites, coastal and inland, within one book. Perhaps the rest will be in a second book!!
I would happily recommend this book to anyone with the dive bug and wants to try the brilliant coastal diving that the UK can offer. This book covers it all.
We have not been disappointed. Each site has a short history of the area and how the wrecks came to be, a description of how to get there, what to look out for when on the dive and special instructions that the author thought relevant for each site - what more could the diver need in a guide!! We especially like the little maps which in our experience are accurate and very helpful. The author has obviously done his homework in preparation for the book and we like his personal reviews of each site which are a continuation of his excellent magazine articles.
I am not sure that the previous reviewer read the product description before buying the book, as I thought it quite obvious that the book covers coastal and offshore dives. Along with the comments about Stoney Cove above, Dosthill is also a quarry dive that goes down to 24m, so I don't think that qualifies, either, as an above 18m dive site. Although he feels there are only 2 sites in Northern England, when you consider all the Welsh, Scottish and Irish sites included, there is quite a spread throughout the UK. Of course not all parts of the coastline will be suitable dive sites either. It is a little farfetched to expect ALL the UK dive sites, coastal and inland, within one book. Perhaps the rest will be in a second book!!
I would happily recommend this book to anyone with the dive bug and wants to try the brilliant coastal diving that the UK can offer. This book covers it all.
I must confess I spend a lot of time underwater and thought I knew most of the places to dive in the UK. However, this book showed me a few hidden tresures that I wasnt aware of. The descriptions of the sites are spot on, congratulations to the author this must have taken some time to put together. I am always looking for shallow dive sites to take newbie divers and although I usually do my own research I feel I can trust the comments in this book, when diving these sites for the first time after reading the reviews I feel like I have dived them before!
Our club are planning a weeks diving next year travelling the UK coast hunting out all the sites in this book :)
If you enjoy diving, live in the UK and havent got this book already then add it to your Christmas list.
Our club are planning a weeks diving next year travelling the UK coast hunting out all the sites in this book :)
If you enjoy diving, live in the UK and havent got this book already then add it to your Christmas list.
Having read a review post here regarding the book I was a little apprehensive, but then I realised the writer was not a diver, anyone who thinks Stoney Cove should feature in an above 18 meters couldn't be a diver, as it has a max depth of 35m, plus it's an inland site and this book covers shore and sea diving.
The book may cover mainly the south coast but then the writer is based in Kent, Google him and you can find that out. There are 25 dives for each of the four UK countries, all are well written with details regarding the level a diver should be at before attempting the dive, plus excellent directions on how to find the site.
There is a good brief history of the site and a description of the sea life you are likely to see.
I've bought other dive guides for the UK in the past, none have been as easy to follow for getting to the site, and may have contain more sites but not with the amount of information that this book has.
This is the authors first book, and I'm looking forward to see what he comes up with next!
The book may cover mainly the south coast but then the writer is based in Kent, Google him and you can find that out. There are 25 dives for each of the four UK countries, all are well written with details regarding the level a diver should be at before attempting the dive, plus excellent directions on how to find the site.
There is a good brief history of the site and a description of the sea life you are likely to see.
I've bought other dive guides for the UK in the past, none have been as easy to follow for getting to the site, and may have contain more sites but not with the amount of information that this book has.
This is the authors first book, and I'm looking forward to see what he comes up with next!
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