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Mediterranean and Atlantic Fish Guide and Indian Ocean Reef Guide by Helmut Debelius
Mediterranean and Atlantic Fish Guide and Indian Ocean Reef Guide by Helmut Debelius
The thing about fish and reef guides is that there are hundreds of them out there. Most use an old and simple recipe - collect vast numbers of photographs, stir in some convincing scientific words, add a sprinkling of why you'll rarely see the species concerned (often coinciding with a badly taken photograph) and there you have it -a marine guide book.
Helmut Debelius has developed his own recipe, fresh from the school of diving around the world for 25 years. Each of his two new hardback guidebooks, Mediterranean and Atlantic Fish Guide and Indian Ocean Reef Guide, contains more than 800 high-quality colour photographs with descriptions of the species described.
Now here's the difference that makes the difference. Wherever possible, Helmut has added flavour to his guide book by adding small pinches of his own experience. As well as describing interesting marine behaviour such as the sex life of blennies and why flatworms are 'absolutely fabulous', Helmut also explains how you should go about finding the subject concerned on a dive.
Interspersed within each of the books are about 20 short pictorial stories covering a number of subjects: descriptions of unheard-of dive sites and islands; unusual marine-life behaviour; wrecks; weather patterns and accounts of various expeditions to new locations.
Helmut has got the marine guide recipe right. Although these books are expensive at £29.95, each of them will help to add flavour to your future diving trips. |
Mediterranean and Atlantic Fish Guide and Indian Ocean Reef Guide by Helmut Debelius, AquaPress (01702 462466). Hardback, 306/322pp, £29.95
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