The Darkness Below

by Rod MacDonald

Diving adventures - and some danger - from established author

232 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2011

Reviews

[Sunflower · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a book I read in little bites at first, but which became more absorbing as I got further into it. It consists of multiple factual accounts of wreck explorations, written by an ex-lawyer with a passion for diving. He starts off on air, then as he gets progressively deeper and has a couple of scares with the bends, moves on to trimix and then a rebreather. He and his diving friends seem quite fearless in their detective work, often going out in IRB's laden with dive gear in less than ideal conditions, and diving virgin wrecks predominantly around the coast of Scotland, many of which are unidentified, or incorrectly identified and located. There's a fair bit of detail about the wrecks themselves, how they dived them, and the tec bits about his gear.
What comes through is his absolute passion for wrecks, his knowledge about ships and their layout, but also his interest in sharing the information with the wider diving community and those who were on the vessels when then went down, or their descendants. (really 3 and a half stars)

[Clare · Rating 5 out of 5]

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