Customer Reviews

Dive Atlas of the World: An Illustrated Reference to the Best Sites

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Coffee table book. Nicely illustrated and informative listing and overview of dive sites of the world. Lots of vacation ideas, including some I wasn't aware of before.
Good motivation for new divers as well.

Then, once you're inspired to take your next dive vacation, consult one of the travel guides:

Aqua Quest Diving series
Globetrotter Dive guides
Lonely Planet Pisces Diving & Snorkeling Guides
Periplus Action Guides (Asia/Pacific)

This is a really big coffee table size book that is stocked with information about dive sites throughout the world, Some parts of the world (Asia) are given more space than others (Carribbean), but overall, it touches all the bases. I like the way it took individual divesites and broke down the dives with temps, currents, difficultly status, and photos. The maps of the areas profiled is worth the price of the book alone (which is reasonably priced.) If you get one book to get an overview of what's out there, this is agood place to start.

Definitely not enough coverage of the Caribbean and Atlantic sites. This book should be named the Pacific and Indian Ocean Dive Atlas. It is a quality written book however that covers the included sites thoroughly. Would recommend it but not for Caribbean reference!

You could spend a lifetime doing all the dive sites in this book. Your life would be vastly enriched if you did too. Definately a great text to have for planning vacations and dive trips any where in the world. Two thumbs up. Go Pro this year!!!

This was purchased as a gift for my husband. It was delivered in a very timely manner (the day before I needed it, which was fabulous!!) I haven't really spent much time reading it, but the pictures are amazing!