Overview
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 great era of discovery of virgin shipwrecks, lost in time. Rod takes the reader to famous shipwreck sites around the world, from the sunken Japanese Fleet at the bottom of Truk Lagoon and Palau in the Pacific, to diving the third largest whirlpool in the world - the Corryvreckan Whirlpool off the west coast of Scotland. He describes this and many other terrifying incidents in which he and his colleagues have come close to death. The book is filled with danger, drama and excitement and chronicles his all-consuming passion, taking the reader on a spellbinding journey beneath the waves.
Full Product Details
Author: Rod Macdonald
Publisher: Whittles Publishing
Imprint: Whittles Publishing
ISBN: 9781849953832
ISBN 10: 184995383
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 31 July 2018
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
`...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
Author Information
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
