Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Amazing Diving Stories by John Bantin - 276 pages




This is a collection of exactly what the title says - Amazing Dive Stories.  Each story being only 5-6 pages long,  anyone remotely interested in diving will move quickly through the fascinating stories of underwater creature encounters (both friendly and not-so friendly), wreck dives, discovered treasure, triumph, and tragedy.  My only two critiques are: (1) the writing is a bit off, perhaps because of the British colloquialisms of the author, but I think it extends beyond this a bit.  (2) for whatever reason the stories got progressively macabre as the book progressed. This made for interesting reading but I think gave the book and diving in general an unfairly dark outlook.