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A Guide To Shore Diving The Maltese Islands, by Peter G Lemon
A Guide To Shore Diving The Maltese Islands, by Peter G Lemon
When I heard that yet another guide was to hit the dive centres and bookshops on diving the Maltese islands, my first reaction was to ask: why? Malta is a mere 26 miles by nine. Do we really need number four in a line of Malta diving guides!
Thinking about it, the answer I came to was - yes. Even with the addition of Peter G Lemon's Guide to Shore Diving the Maltese Islands, there is still a need for a comprehensive guide to all the Maltese dive sites. Not one of the guides so far published has even touched the edge of this iceberg.
My reactions to the latest offering are mixed. When I first scoured the pages I felt that far too much information on the history and background of the islands was included (about 28 pages of it) in what is, after all, a 'diving guide'. Both Ned Middleton's and Lawson Wood's earlier publications had got the proportions about right.
However, from page 31 on, this book becomes a true guide. I consider the underwater pictures to be of only average quality, but the aerial photographs, three-dimensional dive plans and directions on planning each individual dive are exceptional.
This publication was wholly written by a Brit, so I wanted to know what some of the Maltese diving instructors and dive-centre owners thought of it, and of the accuracy of its dive plans? The answer was a surprising thumbs-up - they loved it!
This is a book written by a diver for those divers who just want to dive the Maltese Islands from the shore. It's a book I can recommend, albeit with those few niggles.
David Oldale
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A Guide To Shore Diving The Maltese Islands, by Peter G Lemon (AquaPress, 01702 462466). Softback, 208p. £16.95
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