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Dive England's Greatest Wrecks by Rod Macdonald
Dive England's Greatest Wrecks by Rod Macdonald
One of the hardest things about writing a book on wrecks is deciding which wrecks to put in it. Rod Macdonald has made the seabed selection even more difficult for himself by entitling his latest book Dive England's Greatest Wrecks.
This is a sequel to his 1993 book about diving Scotland's greatest wrecks - easier, because the 10 he chose almost named themselves. They were close together in Sounds, Firths and Flow. England's greatest were less obliging and were miles apart.
Macdonald writes in his introduction: 'Rashly I gave myself only one year to research and dive 10 of the greatest shipwrecks in English waters and to complete the manuscript...'
His chosen year of 2002 was a bad one for diving weather, too, but he pulled his project off in style. The book is first class and the wreck stories well told. In particular it benefits, as did the Scotland book, from the work of Rob Ward, a non-diver but a fine artist who has turned MacDonald's diving observations into stunning paintings of the wrecks on the seabed today.
These, together with many photographs and line-drawings and maps, and much diving detail, will urge many divers into visiting or revisiting the wrecks.
England's Greatest, according to Rod Macdonald, are: the Salsette (Lyme Bay); HMS Hood (Portland Harbour); HMS M2 (Lyme Bay); Kyarra (Swanage); Maine (Bolt Head); Bretagne (Babbacombe Bay); James Eagan Layne (Whitsand Bay); Moldavia (Littlehampton); Alaunia (Hastings); and Mongolian (Filey Bay).
Kendall McDonald (no relation!)
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Dive England's Greatest Wrecks by Rod Macdonald (Mainstream Publishing, ISBN 1840185708). Hardback,169pp, £14.99
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