Deep Into Blue Holes (Paperback)

~ Rob Palmer (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 188 pages
• Publisher: Media Publishing Ltd.; 2 edition (March 1997)
• ISBN-10: 0964378663
• ISBN-13: 978-0964378667
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.7 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,230,383 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Honest history of diving the deep holes and caves of Andros, June 2, 1999

By	Dennis R. Letendre (Boulder, CO) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Palmer uses a fine documentative approach, weaving the evolution and aspects of technical diving with the biology and history of the Andros Island blue holes and caves. The challenging, sometimes fatal experiences of diving these beautiful caves is described in a smooth almost conversational style. A great read for divers, and anyone interested in the Caribbean.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars FANTASTIC for the adventurist diver!, October 16, 1998

By A Customer

I once had a copy of this book; sadly, no longer. I loaned it to a friend who moved to higher places and well, I never got my book back.

Although not a caver or a cave diver myself (I am too scared of tight little dark holes), this book is very appealing for that very fact - the "squeezes" that the divers go through to find the "ultimate" cave makes for terrific reading. So much so that it could (almost) make me take to cave diving. The book has numerous full colour plates showing the terrific underwater scenery of the Blue Holes (of Andros Island in the Bahamas). If you're into diving pictures, they alone are worth the book.

Rob Palmer is one of cave diving's greats. He's dived with pretty much the who's who in the world of cave and 'extreme' (depth) divers. While the book tells in detail hopw each dive is conquered, sobering thoughts jump to mind when a story relates how the divers turn a bend in the channel they think they are the first to discover, and find the body of a previous explorer who got lost and couldn't find his way out.....

Gripping stuff. Wish I still had my copy.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rob Palmer's Legacy, September 26, 2004

By	lucaya "FJL" (Florida) - See all my reviews

Deep Into Blue Holes is a great read if for nothing more than the adventure of going where no man had gone before. It is much more than that if the readers involve themselves in understanding the technology used in Palmer's efforts to explore deep and stay long. Cutting edge at the time and very expensive, it's now available to all cave divers. As an aside, Palmer, now deceased, is rolling over in his watery grave if he can see the ecological damage done (and still being done) to those beautiful Bahamian inner spaces. Having dived some of these myself and seen their mysterious beauty, cave divers and ecologists everywhere should unite in their efforts to prevent similar abuses to resources like these wherever they may be.