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.
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