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CalendersWreck Diving Calendar 2008 Various Our Price: £8.99 Pages : 12 pages Publication Date : Oct 2006 Availability : Normally despatched within 24 hours. |
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Calendars are 30 x 30cm square
when folded, opening out to 30 x 60cm allowing ample room for
messages on the bottom half with a full colour photograph for
each month on the top half. |
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Wrecks Top Wreck Dives of the WorldJ Jackson Our Price: £29.99 Pages : 160 pages Format : Hardback Publication Date : Oct 2007 Availability : New title available October 2007 |
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BRAND NEW PUBLICATION . A combination of wars, bad weather and human error has left thousands of wrecks around the world. Wrecks are of interest to divers for a whole host of reasons: they are time capsules preserving the moment and living laboratories sheltering coral growths and communities of marine creatures. They also often present a challenge to divers, affording them valuable practice in negotiating difficult settings. Top Wreck Dives of the World celebrates the most interesting examples from around the world, covering the full spectrum of sites-from shallow dives on artificial reefs and spectacular descents, to major wrecks such as the Lusitania, the Andrea Doria and the ship 'graveyards' of Scapa Flow and Chuuk. The book is organized regionally by ocean or sea, with the dives grouped according to the territorial waters in which they lie. |
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Our Price: £35.00 Pages : 160 pages |
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Provides scuba divers with their
finest opportunity to explore the most outstanding collection
of shipwrecks found anywhere in the world. No other country is
able to boast such a fine assortment in a relatively confined
area and in constant conditions of warm clear water. The wreck
of the Thistlegorm has consistently remained the world's most
visited dive site for the past ten years. This well researched
and heavily illustrated work contains details of seventeen wrecks,
ten of which have never been described or illustrated before
in any book. A final chapter includes miscellaneous shipwrecks,
providing a solid research base for any one wishing to know more
of the story behind these epic sites. Each ship is described
in detail and illustrated in its final glory, a narrative of
each ship's last journey is provided as well as diving details
- personally researched by the author - giving underwater descriptions
of each vessel - from one end of the ship to the other. Finally,
the artist's stunning impression of each shipwreck in its entirety
concludes each individual ship's chapter. |
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Logbooks
- Recreational Pages : 216 pages |
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A tough hardwearing log book
designed specifically for todays recreational diver. Two
pages per dive, including a full page of ruled/graph section
for notes and drawings. This new book is now even larger allowing
you to log 100 dives and incorporates many updates making it
even easier to keep an accurate record of your dives. This logbook is designed for
recreational use only. If you are performing any work underwater
or are being paid for diving please use a suitable commercial
diving log book. This version is a hardback case
measuring approximately 216mm x 140mm. |
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Our Price: £15.99 Pages : 216 pages |
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Same description as above Black
Steel. |
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Our Price: £13.99 Pages : 172 pages |
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Relive the highs & lows of each
diving year. Contains 2 pages per dive with one page reserved
for technical information and one ruled page for notes. This
paperback logbook conforms fully to HSE ACOPS standards and is
suitable for recreational diving. Contains records for 82 dives.
Comes complete with waterproof cover. |
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Coffee Table Our Price: £44.99 |
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'Beneath North Sulawesi is the long overdue Coffee Table sequel to Beneath Bunaken (1993), the award winning almanac that was selected as the Presidential Gift for the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation conference in 1994. Michael AW, author of Beneath Bunaken, Richest Reefs, Dreams from a Rainbow Sea and cinematographer Stuart Ireland and Antibes award winning composer Eric Bettens came together for this production a DVD and a high quality pictorial almanac that encapsulates the richness and beauty of what lies beneath North Sulawesi into one exquisite volume; it is designed to raise the standard for all books of the sea, a hallmark for underwater image production. The theme music was specially written for Beneath North SulaweSea Part of the proceeds from this production go towards OceanNEnvironments SOS funds to support research and preservation projects in the Indo-Pacific. Covering the expanse of the North Sulawesi peninsula, the images from this production were shot entirely from Bunaken Marine Park, Banka, Sangie, Ruang, Siau and the Lembeh Strait. |
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Educational Our Price: £19.99 Pages : 96 pages |
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The intent of this book is to present
a working view of the reduced gradient bubble model (RGBM), decompression
mechanics, and applications to technical diving. The focus is
RGBM theory and correlations with experiment, lab testing, field-testing,
and data. It is directed to the reader with some rudimentary
understanding of decompression. Dual phase mechanics, materials,
and bubble phenomenology are linked, field testing, data, and
validation are discussed, and the physical couplings are presented.
Extensive references are appended. SOME HAVE CALLED IT A REVOLUTION
IN MODERN DIVING. The RGBM has already gained widespread acceptance
and popularity with growth in prominence, particularly in the
deep, decompression, and mixed gas sectors. This is due to released
Tables (NAUI), meter implementations (Suunto, Mares, Dacor, Plexus,
Hydrospace, Plexus, Zeagle) computer software (GAP, ABYSS, RGBMdiving.com),
testing, validation and wholesale positive results and feedback
by real divers across all venues. |
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Our Price: £32.99 Pages : 512 pages |
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The long-awaited second edition of John Lippmanns popular book on deeper diving is finally available ... Deeper Into Diving is for the
diving enthusiast, the experienced diver, the technical diver,
the dive instructor, as well as other diving and dive medical
professionals. It contains information on a variety of decompression
procedures and technical information that is not easily obtainable.
This book also provides very valuable insights into diving physiology
and various physical and medical aspects of deeper diving. This
new edition also includes over 70 pages on technical diving. |
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Format : Softback |
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This new 270 page reference is authored
by Tom Mount with chapters by Jarrod Jablonski, Lamar Hires,
Bruce V. Voss, M.D., David J. Doolette, Ph.D., Jolie Bookspan,
Ph.D., Martin Shamilian, Ph.D., John Zumrick MD, JP Imbert, and
Kevin Gurr. Subjects include The Leading Cause of Accidents in
Technical Diving, Equipment Configuration, Dive Planning, Dive
Techniques, Respiration, Circulation and Breathing Control, The
Effects of Drugs on Diving, Oxygen and It's Effects on the Diver,
Inert Gas Narcosis, Carbon Dioxide Retention, Carbon Monoxide
- The Black Gas, High Pressure Nervous Syndrome, Combining Theories
for Decompression Safety, Phychological & Physical Fitness
for Technical Diving and Operation Safety. This unique reference
manual will be required reading for all IANTD Technical Diver
Programs. |
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Our Price: £18.99 Format : Softback |
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Decompression theory is very complicated, yet a good understanding of it is essential to help protect the diver from harmful and distressing medical problems. It is worth remembering that 2/3rds of all bend cases are within the limits of tables and dive computers being used. So, it is very pleasing to find a book that brings this topic to life in plain English and with a sense of humour. This book provides a straightforward explanation of the theory, with practical advice and strategies that help the diver avoid the bends. This book takes you beyond the
basic information given by the training agencies to a level of
understanding that will better protect you from the ravages of
DCI. The text ranges across traditional decompression, gas movement
in the body, women and diving, personal decompression computers(PDCs),
DCI avoidance strategies, bubble control including RGBM and deep
stops, multi-level computer assisted diving, gas planning, alternative
decompression systems, risk assessment, DCI first aid and practical
decompression in the real-world. |
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RRP: £6.99 Pages : 585 pages |
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A NUCLEAR PEARL HARBOUR Buried in
the depths of the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of Japan, lies
one of the greatest drowned secrets of World War Two - a crashed
B-29 Bomber that was carrying a third atomic bomb to Japan in
1945. Its deadly cargo, lost in the sea for nearly fifty years,
is at the heart of this classic Dirk Pitt thriller, in which
a small group of Japanese nationalist fanatics, dreaming of a
new Nipponese Empire, set out to neutralise and blackmail the
USA - with nuclear weapons planted strategically in the country's
major cities! |
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Our Price: £6.99 Pages : 422 pages |
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When Ed Strachan's parents were
killed in a horrific car crash eighteen years ago, they left
their son a miserly inheritance: the memory of a mangled nursery
rhyme and a cufflink inscribed with a single set of coordinates.
But eighteen years later, when a beautiful girl tries to poison
Ed and steal the cufflink, he guesses it may have greater significance
than he had imagined. Christine Molyneux is just the first of
many who will stop at nothing to get hold of it. Ed is soon prime
suspect in a complicated homicide and immersed in a mystery that
goes back way before his parent's death. It is a mystery that
lies hidden off a coral island in the South China Sea; that has
already cost thousands of lives and that will cost many more
before it sees the light of day again. Fans of Clive Cussler
will love "Double Cross", a breathtaking mixture of
mystery, action and undersea adventure. |
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Non-Fiction
Our Price: £9.99 Pages : 160 pages |
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In the early hours of Saturday,
14th October 1939, just after the outbreak of the War, the Royal
Navy suffered a stunning loss. The battleship Royal Oak,
stationed inside the main base of the Home Fleet at Scapa Flow,
was shaken by a number of explosions. She became a furnace, rolled
over and within minutes, had gone to the bottom, with nearly
800 men trapped inside. This daring feat of arms was eagerly
seized upon by the Nazi propoganda service and they acclaimed
Leutenant Prien of U-47 as their first hero of the War. Hero
because he had penetrated the defences of 'Impregnable Scapa',
where every previous attempt had failed. |
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Our Price: £18.99 Pages : 352 pages |
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If you have ever wondered what Soviet
submarines and for that matter British and American got up to,
then its all in here! The book is centred around a series
of incidents and major espionage projects around 1949 to the
early nineties. We recommend you read a copy before the entire
print run is recalled! |
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Our Price: £9.99 Pages : 528 pages |
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The SS Central America sank in 1857 off the Carolina coast. Despite battling storms and technological challenges, the discovery of this ship and its treasure has been described as the greatest ever found. In September 1857 the side-wheel steamer SS "Central America", carrying 500 passengers and tons of gold from the California Gold Rush, sank in a hurricane 200 miles off the Carolina coast. Lost in legend for more than a century, its tragic story resurfaced in 1989 when Tommy Thompson, an ocean engineer, sailed into Norfolk harbour with over ten tons of pioneer gold. Using oceanography, computers and probability theory to sift through historical records and penetrate the ocean depths, Thompson's team had recovered, as LIFE magazine put it, 'the greatest treasure ever found'. This superb book is, firstly, a finely researched historical record of the initial disaster. It is also a chronicle of the technological breakthroughs in which deep-sea robots were developed to perform all sorts of tasks one and half miles below the surface. Finally, it is a terrifically exciting adventure story, telling how scientists and engineers battled storms, technological challenges and intrusive salvagers to find one of the world's greatest lost treasures. A superb non-fiction adventure story. About the Author |
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RRP: £12.99 Pages : 340 pages |
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Ocean Gladiator - Battles beneath the ocean from Mark Ellyatt. Mark tells of scuba diving adventures spanning 12 years. Twelve chapters outline a shakey start learning to scuba dive in Mexico, life as globe trotting diving instructor and succesfully becoming the Worlds Deepest Scuba Diver, amongst other hair raising diving projects. Mark recalls the how and the why of some of the most adventurous scuba dives ever conducted in an effort to educate and entertain novices and experts alike. REVIEWS - |
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Our Price: £24.99 Pages : 304 pages |
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Explores the history and development of cave diving from early beginnings in the 18th Century right up to the present day. This highly sought after book is a brand new version with extensively updated material. See also Martyn Farr's new publication
'Diving in Darkness' on the list below. |
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Our Price: £16.99 Pages : 351 pages |
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Cave divers are a breed apart and
this is their story - a story of pushing the limits of technology
and human endurance. The author takes you on a journey from the
earliest pioneering expeditions into submerged prehistoric caves
in Europe to the most recent record-setting expeditions. |
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Exploration Our Price: £20.00 Pages : 191 pages |
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The discoverer of the Titanic takes
on his most challenging underwater search ever
In spring
1998 Robert Ballard and his team sailed into the waters off Midway
Island. Their mission- to locate and photograph the ships sunk
in the epic 1942 battle that changed the course of the Pacific
War. But Dr Ballard soon found himself facing the greatest challenge
of his career. The lost ships of Midway lay over three miles
down and within a vast potential search area. Return to Midway
is both an exciting modern-day adventure story - and the final
chapter in one of this century's epic naval battles. |
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History Our Price: £14.99 Format : Softback |
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The history of diving in America
from Hollywoods first stunt girl to the founding of PADI.
Spanning the era from hard hats to computers, these stories recall
scubas pioneering days when every dive was an adventure. |
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Our Price: £15.99 Pages : 176 pages |
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A brand new dive guide to scapa flow featuring; 3D wreck scans, highly detailed full colour maps of all locations, full colour world class photography throughout, unseen archive material. The most comprehensive guide to diving the reefs and wrecks of Scapa Flow. Scapa Flow has international acclaim as one of the top five wreck diving locations in the world and has more diveable wreckage than any other area in Europe. The shipwrecks are a mixture of battleships, cruisers and destroyers from the German High Seas Battle Fleet scuttled towards the end of WWI and the direct actions of the British Admiralty which sank a further 43 ships during both world conflicts to block the entrances to Scapa Flow. The definitive guide to
diving Scapa Flow covering all wrecks and reef dives. |
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Our Price: £17.99 Pages : 127 pages |
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This is the story of the wrecks
dotted in and around Scapa Flow. Covering not only the scuttling
of the German High Seas Fleet is also looks at one of the biggest
disasters in British naval history, that of the sinking of the
Royal Oak by U-47 when 833 men lost their lives. |
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Our Price: £24.95 Format : Hardback |
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Information is given on more than
750 vessels sunk during the 1914-1918 war. Includes chart positions
and maps showing the relative locations of the wrecks and how
they met their ends. Background information is also included
on the U-Boats which accounted for many of the Allied loses,
which themselves often fell victims of war. |
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Our Price: £14.99 Pages : 169 pages |
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Dive England's Greatest Wrecks is a perfect companion for any diver interested in exploring England's most exciting shipwrecks, preserved as time capsules of an era of sea power and majesty that has now passed into the history books. Among the ten featured here are the Salsette off Weymouth, arguably Engalnd's most famous shipwreck; the SS Kyarra off Dorset; the British submarine M2 and the pre-dreadnought battleship HMS Hood, both lying off Portland; the American Liberty ship James Egan Layne off Plymouth; and the fabulous P & O liner Moldavia. Along with the history of each
vessel and the dramatic account of how it was wrecked, there
is essential diver information detailinghow the wreck lies today,
along with depths, tides and other points of interest. Each of
the wrecks is vividly brought to life by specially commissioned
stunning paintings showing the vessels as they lie on the seabed
today. |
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Our Price: £14.99 Pages : 176 pages |
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Accomplished diver Rod Macdonald
has carefully selected 10 of Scotland's most famous shipwrecks
in this practical and authoritative guide. The story of the sinking
of each vessel is dramatically recounted and accompanied by a
detailed description of the wreck today. Each wreck is brought
vividly to life by specially commissioned illustrations and the
dives are depicted with charts and underwater photographs. |
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Our Price: £14.95 Pages : 232 pages |
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A new edition of this key Diver
Guide series book featuring some of the country's most varied
diving, from wrecks by the dozen to the natural wonders of reefs,
caverns and busy fish life. More than 100 miles of coast are
represented in this extensive guide, including Lyme Bay, Chesil
Beach, Portland, Purbeck and Poole Bay and Harbour. In updating
their wreck information the authors, with more than 25 years
of Dorset diving experience, have concentrated on vessels which
still have clear remains that can be explored. Illustrated in
colour and black-and-white. 232 pages. |
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Our Price: £14.95 Format : Softback |
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Kent has many wrecks, sunk by weather,
warfare and misadventure. This guide ranges from the Sussex border
to Margate in the north-east, detailing wrecks and other sites
plus information on local services, launch sites and charter
boats. Chapters cover: Dungeness to Littlestone; Hythe and Folkestone;
Dover, South Foreland and St Margaret's; Kingsdown, Walmer, Deal
and South Goodwins; Sandwich, Pegwell Bay, Ramsgate and North
Goodwins; Broadstairs, North Foreland and Margate. Illustrations
in colour and b&w. 144 pages. |
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Our Price: £14.95 Format : Softback |
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A new edition of this Diver Guide
series book featuring more than 300 diveable wrecks off the Sussex
coast. Following a chapter on dive planning the guide lists great
wreck dives from Chichester all the way to Broomhill Sands, via
Bognor Regis, Litttlehampton, Ferring, Hove, Brighton, Burrow
Head, Newhaven, Beach Head, Eastbourne, St Leonards and Hastings.
The author, a vice-president and former chairman of the British
Sub-Aqua Club, is a wrecks advisor and writer for Diver magazine
and has written more than 30 books on the subject. Illustrated
in colour and black-and-white. |
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Our Price: £14.95 Pages : 236 pages |
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More than 200 coastal and offshore
dive sites - including the region's infamous tally of wrecked
ships - are described in a book that covers the area from Whitsand
Bay, just west of Plymouth, to Land's End. Appropriately, author
Richard Larn is a noted wrecks historian. Harbour maps and photographs
of launch sites help the visiting diver while, to supplement
GPS, illustrations of coastal transit marks aid site location
by traditional means. Illustrations in colour and b&w. 236
pages. |
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Our Price: £14.95 Pages : 232 pages |
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Home to more than 3000 recorded
shipwrecks, and boasting superior underwater visibility and rich
marine life, North Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly are a magnet
for divers. This book tells how to explore the waters around
the Isles of Scilly, with its 5 inhabited islands, 48 islets
and hundreds of rocks spread over 60 square miles. There is also
detailed coverage of North Cornwall, which can be dived from
boats based at St Ives, Newquay, Padstow, Rock and Port Gaverne,
with special information for technical divers wishing to visit
the deeper wrecks off this coast. 232 pages, illustrated in colour
and black and white with maps of relevant areas. |
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Photography Our Price: £12.99 Pages : 128 pages |
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This book is an absolutely essential guide for those who want to shoot beautiful digital pictures underwater. The complete How to guide with detailed descriptions and professional secrets, explanations about using digital cameras underwater, exposure, use of light and shooting techniques for macro and wide-angle imagery. Packed with information, key points, tips and techniques, and professional secrets, it includes; Digital Essentials, Shooting Digital Underwater, Art of Underwater Photography, The Digital Darkroom, Beyond the Basics. An Essential Guide to Digital Underwater Photography takes you from the basics, channels your creativity to greater heights and guides you to produce some of the most beautiful pictures of the sea. It will also help you to learn the art form of photography and master the vocabulary of digital imaging. Above all this book will open your eyes to the enjoyment of digital underwater photography increasing the fun factor of your diving. It is a complete digital "How To" guide. An important new title for underwater photographers. All pages are color coded for quick reference. For aspiring underwater photographers the road to success is littered with obstacles. Surfacing from a promising dive, we are faced with photographs of a blurred buddy, a fish giving us the arse or a blast of backscatter sneering back at us. Despite the desire to capture the magical moments we are privy to each time we submerge ourselves in the ocean, for most, underwater photography is nothing but a cruel joke. That is until Michael Aw and
Mathieu Meur came together to reveal the secrets of their success
in producing this complete how-to guide to underwater digital
photography. The guide includes well thought-out modules, tutorials,
tips and hints on topics such as exposure, light manipulation,
shooting techniques, macro and wide angle imagery, color correction,
file management and most importantly what to do in that moment
of terror when water gurgles into your camera! |
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Our Price: £12.99 Pages : 132 pages |
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Based on methods employed by professional
underwater photographers, the ADVANCED guide for Digital Underwater
Photography is packaged with practical techniques and useful
information. Whether you are a novice or a serious shooter, this
state-of-the-art guide will take your digital imaging proficiency
to the next level. Expanding beyond the basic and essential aspects
of digital underwater photography, the content is organised into
five modules encapsulating advanced digital imaging knowledge,
photographic skills, asset management, and workflow to post production.
For the photographer who wishes to appreciate and embrace the
art of underwater imagery, techniques for successful pictures
are revealed in detail. The structured modules give comprehensive
descriptions about the composition and methods for ambient light
photography, macro and super macro, wide-angle imagery with and
without a model to shooting with filters, over and under images
to shooting with HID lights. Advance yourself with tutorials
for the digital darkroom photo editing, colour and exposure
correction. This guide also includes information on digital asset
management systems adopted by professional photographers. A generous
number of images are used to illustrate the varied form of underwater
imaging. A special section features images and secrets from some
of the worlds top underwater photographers David
Doubilet, Doug Perrine, Alex Mustard & Stephen Frink. This
is the most definitive advanced guide available for digital underwater
photography; a must have essential for any aspiring digital photographer. |
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Red
Sea Our Price: £20.00 Pages : 350 pages |
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Recent years have seen the discovery
of new shipwrecks, reefs and animal gatherings in the Red Sea.
Now they are featured in this important new guide book complemented
by the best modern photography, high quality mapping and graphic
illustrations. Simon Rogerson and John McIntyre take you on a
guided tour of classic dives throughout the region. |
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UK Marine
Life Our Price: £17.95 Pages : 216 pages |
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Revised, updated and expanded to
cover more species in greater detail, this new edition of British
Sea Fishes is devoted entirely to the fish found around the coasts
of the British Isles - and most of the 100-plus species described
are illustrated with colour photographs of the fishes in their
natural environment. |
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Submarines
and Wrecks
Our Price: £7.99 Pages : 372 pages |
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The inside story of the SBS from
the Second World War to Special Operations in the Gulf War. Based
on dramatic personal accounts from former members, the result
is the most comprehensive and authoritative documentary on the
SBS. |
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RRP: £19.95 Pages : 288 pages |
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This is the fully revised and updated
edition of the first comphrensive account of every peacetime
submarine disaster from 1774 to the present day. By examining
many of the sinkings in considerable detail, analysing what went
wrong and describing the attempts made to rescue the crew and
the vessel, Edwyn Gray traces the development of the submarine
from the earliest experimental submersibles of the late 18th
century, to the nuclear powered monsters of today. The appendices
include the most comprehensive and accurate list of submarine
disasters ever printed, in the compilation of which the author
has had the cooperation of the US, French, Italian, Danish and
Japanese Navies, as well as the RN Submarine Museum and the German
U-Boat Archive. |
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Our Price: £19.95 Pages : 212 pages |
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The Last Patrol is an operational
history of the fifty-two American submarines lost during the
Second World War. |
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Our Price: £7.99 Pages : 186 pages |
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The story of Otto Kretschmer Germany's
top U-Boat ace. 'The Wolf of the Atlantic' was the name given
to Otto Kretschner, Germany's brilliant U-boat commander. It
was a title Kretschmer fully earned by almost legendary exploits
during the early days of the war, when he accounted for a high
tonnage of Allied shipping. |
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Our Price: £14.99 Pages : 16 pages CONTAINS:- DVD INDENTIFICATION DIRECTORY
move quickly to any species of your choice |
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Our Price: £12.99 Publication Date : Apr 2005 |
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With the fusion of spectacular underwater scenes and amazing music, this DVD gives you the ultimate in audio visual. The essential information on each shipwreck is also provided without the usual documentary format. This is the first insallment
in the H2ocean series. In this primary episode you are taken
to the Mediterranean island of Malta. This strategically positioned
island played a pivotal role during the conflicts of WW2. The
beautiful blue waters of Malta's shores are littered with an
abundance of interesting wreck sites, many of them in their final
resting positions as a result of wartime conflicts. |
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Our Price: £149.99 Publication Date : May 2007 |
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EXCLUSIVE OFFER Rediscover the World is a special
3 disc documentary set. The Cousteau team look at some of the
fragile ecosystems in our planet and suggest ways to protect
it. Their journeys took place in the Philippines, The Mekong,
Africa & China. |