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Dive: The Ultimate Guide to 60 of the World's Top Dive Locations (Ultimate Sports Guide)

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If scuba diving is your passion, make Monty Halls' Dive: The Ultimate Guide To 60 Of The Worlds Top Dive Locations your passionate reference to the best scuba dive locations in the world. Over 300 scuba dives in 60 popular destinations are rated along with visa requirements, insights on local culture and customs, marine life, geographic information and website references. Packed with color photos, each description includes a difficulty rating, water temperature chart, and sidebars of at-a-glance detail on getting there and local dive centers.

This book has beautiful photography and covers most of the world's great dive destinations. Considering that it is primarily a picture book, it also offers a good deal of information on the classic dives at each location. I liked that it included information on water temperature, weather and seasons, dive difficulty, and local travel tips. While it doesn't provide enough information to plan a complete trip, I feel it does provide the right kind of depth to choose a destination. Another reviewer complained that the maps left a little to be desired. In my opinion, that level of detail is more appropriate for a destination travel planning book, such as Lonely Planet or Frommers. I don't know of another book that offers as much information on dive destinations on the world scale.

Actually, an "ultimate guide" would have a greater variety of more detailed information for planning a trip. That said, it is a gorgeous book. Gave it as a gift to my dive buddy/husband, and he loved it. Great ideas for places to go that are off the beaten path.

While the book does not "dive" too deep into any location, it does a great job of giving you a brief on what to expect. The quick reference areas that provide quick reference are great.

While the book will offer limited details if you know where you are going, if you doing a general search for your next dive it is perfect.

This book has great descriptions of the selected dive sites and excellent pictures. It is however one man's opinion of the best dive sites and it doesn't specify exactly where the dive sites are so it serves only as a planning guide and does not help locate the dive site.

This is a great introduction to dive destinations around the world. The only thing I would add is more detail to the different destinations. Each site typically covers around 2-3 pages of information and the "top sites" at the locations. It has opened my eyes to many places I will visit in the future.

The Ultimate Guide is well written and the pictures are nice and sharp so the book is very beautiful to look at, but its weakness rests on VERY uninformative maps! All in all the book is worth getting, IMO.