Into the Abyss
diving to adventure in the liquid world
$71.79
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
31 July 2018
Summary
Into the Abyss, the first volume in The Diving Trilogy, is a fascinating collection of true life diving adventures from Rod’s long and varied diving career. It follows his progression from novice diver in the 1980s through the dangers of the deep air diving era and on to trimix diving in the 1990s where divers began to use commercial mixed breathing gases as the sport of technical diving was born. This opened up vast, previously inaccessible, swathes of the seabed, ushering in a g…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781849953832 |
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| ISBN-10: | 184995383X |
| Series: | The Diving Trilogy |
| Author: | Rod Macdonald |
| Publisher: | Porto Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | Whittles Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 31 July 2018 |
| Weight: | 611g |
| Dimensions: | 240mm x 170mm x 12mm |
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The Darkness Below and Deeper into the Darkness complete the trilogy and together take the reader on a spell-binding journey beneath the waves’. Julian Stockwin -------------------- 'This is a very good read and I would highly recommend it to anyone with an interest in the area'. Shipping - Today & Yesterday --------------------…these two books [Into the Abyss and Deeper into the Darkness] are very valuable records slowly disintegrating over the years and may soon be gone forever’. In Depth ——————– ...will be a revelation. ...this book has the lot. Macdonald really was on a voyage of discovery, and he shares it in intricate detail, as if he was sitting beside you, telling the story in person. ... All the essence of diving at the cusp of the technical revolution is here. ...this is the life of a man who was out there pioneering and discovering... This book is utterly marvellous and deeply interesting'. Diver Magazine -------------------This is a journey through Rod Macdonald’s logbook, how he started, how he progressed to wreck diving and how that led to Trimix and technical diving… I cannot remember reading a dive book that had me laughing out loud. … will appeal to divers and non-divers alike. It should be compulsory reading for anyone starting out on their own adventure. It is the best book on diving I have read for years and I cannot recommend it enough’. Scottish Diver Magazine
About The Author
Rod Macdonald
Rod is famous for his authoritative dive guides such as Dive Scapa Flow, Dive Truk Lagoon and Dive Palau - the Shipwrecks. Vol. I in the trilogy, Into the Abyss - Diving to Adventure in the Liquid World; and Vol. II, The Darkness Below
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