This is the latest of these diving guides/ logbooks, sets of cards that fit into the standard PADI ring-bound logbook and cover many, if not all, of the most-visited dive sites in the Red Sea.
Each pack contains 16 highly detailed site guides, with proposed routes and background information. Each one features a fairly primitive coloured sketch of the site, too, and there is space for a diver to add individual notes relative to a particular dive.
A dive-site overview gives basic information that can add to one's enjoyment of the dive.
I showed a Travelling Diver pack to several dive guides out in the Red Sea. They could see no use for them, because they said they offered no information over and above that which they dispensed before each dive.
However, that's just the professional view. Visiting divers to whom I spoke had quite another opinion. I could see that those who kept comprehensive records of what
they do would find them very appealing, because Rik Vercoe, the author, has done most of the work for them.
So these packs make great souvenirs for your logbook and, what's more, they are accurate, which is more than can be said for some of the interpretations of dives that I've seen divers enter into their logs.
Sets are tied into regular liveaboard diving safari routes, such as Northern Wrecks & Reefs, and North Red Sea Wrecks, while day-boat divers are equally well served by guides to the sites around El Gouna, Hurghada, Safaga, Sharm el Sheikh and Marsa Alam. Blank logbook refill packs are also available.
John Bantin
Travelling Diver
www.travellingdiver.com
Set of 16 cards, £12.50
