This global guide to the world's top dive sites is a useful reference source for divers who wish to experience the best diving the planet has to offer. In addition to comprehensive mapping, it features underwater photography showing famous wrecks, a wide range of marine habitats and more.

This global guide to the world's top dive sites is a useful reference source for divers who wish to experience, personally or vicariously, the best diving the planet has to offer. Descriptive text, written by experienced dive authors, is based on first-hand experience. Conservation is an important theme and the text is sensitive to conservation projects and issues.;In addition to comprehensive mapping, the book features underwater photography showing famous wrecks, a wide range of marine habitats and a huge diversity of species ranging from whale sharks to nudibranchs.;Coverage starts with the Atlantic, from the west coast of north America and proceeds west to east and north to south. Structured by oceans and seas - Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Caribbean Sea - each section starts with a general overview of diving-related features and conditions in the ocean/sea. A large-scale map shows the basic ocean topography and locates the featured dive regions to follow.;Regional maps feature specific dive sites (like the Umbria Wreck), to help divers select and locate the type of diving experience they are looking for. Icons identify wreck dives, d

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