Husband-and-wife team Beth and Shaun Tierney recently published a book called Diving The World. Part of Footprint Travel Guides, Diving The World carefully describes and compares over 200 of the world's top dive sites, including Australia, PNG, Solomons, Fiji, Galápagos, Belize, Mexico, Honduras, Egypt, East Africa, Maldives, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, and Micronesia. The 352-page book is crammed (in a good way) with maps, color photos, information on climate and dive conditions, anecdotes of the various dive sites, local conservation issues, and suggested top-side activities. Looking inside the book set my mouth to watering. Must...get...copy...
For a taste of what the book is like, check out the Tierneys' website, Sea Focus, which is loaded with tons of exquisite underwater (and topside) images as well as comprehensive trip reports they have compiled through their work/travels. Must...get...this...job...
To get your own copy, you can order through Footprints, Sea Focus, or (if you live in the US, it's cheapest from) Amazon.
1. My wife and I are in our middle 50's and have been diving for 4 years....We have about 250 dives which means we have gotten around some. I picked up a copy of the book and every location that we have dived,that is in this book, is a 100% match up with our feeling about the place. It is well written, consise, easy to find the information we are looking for, and beautifully photographed. The work is outstanding. We tried to get our dive shop to cary it, becasue we felt that it was something every traveling diver should have.
Phil Tobin Portland Oregon USA
Posted at 11:09AM on Jun 27th 2006 by Phil Tobin