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Sharm El-Sheikh Diving Guide by Claudio Cangini
Sharm El-Sheikh Diving Guide by Claudio Cangini
There are two types of guide book: the one you buy to take with you and the one you buy to look at before you go. The Sharm el Sheikh Diving Guide by Claudio Cangini falls into the second category. It's lavishly produced, and burgeoning with beautiful colour photography with informative, descriptions. Dive sites are treated equally comprehensively, with diagrammatic treatments of each location in both plan and profile.
The book's five sections cover the Strait of Tiran, local dives, Ras Mohammed, the Strait of Gubal, and finally identification of marine life, illustrated with artist's impressions.
The major illustrations on the intro page for each dive site are, however, more decorative than informative. I find it hard to believe that artist Cristina Franco has visited the sites herself. And the book continues to peddle good old chestnuts such as Ras Mohammed meaning 'Mohammed's Head', even suggesting that if you look at the headland from a certain angle the cliff face resembles the prophet's features!
And it comes as no surprise to find the wreck of the Kingston on Shag Rock referred to as the Sarah H, the result of a joke involving the wife of a live-aboard skipper which since seems to have passed into fact.
Such errors aside, this book will be well received, especially by souvenir-hunters in Sharm el Sheik. If you buy it at home, save weight in your luggage by not packing it on the way out.
John Bantin
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Sharm El-Sheikh Diving Guide by Claudio Cangini, Swan Hill 01743235651. Softback 168pp, £16.96
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