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The Cayman Islands Dive Guide (Dive guides)
 
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The Cayman Islands Dive Guide (Dive guides) (Paperback)

by William Harrigan (Author), Stephen Frink (Photographer)
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  • Paperback: 167 pages
  • Publisher: Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S. (1 Sep 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0789206099
  • ISBN-13: 978-0789206091
  • Product Dimensions: 29.2 x 20.8 x 0.1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,535,402 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This is a guide to the Cayman Islands for divers wanting to plan and book their itinerary in advance. It can also be used on site as a guide to the actual dives themselves, and includes detailed data on depths, sizes, currents and animal life.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Marginally better than most other Guides in this series., 5 April 2009
By Ned Middleton (British professional underwater photo-journalist & author) - See all my reviews
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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.

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