The Northwest Dive Guide by Mike Hughes

UntitledThis book is subtitled A Scuba Handbook For BC, Washington and Oregon, so if you ever plan to do some of the exciting coldwater diving available in the Pacific North-west, it would come in useful. It contains guides to more than 150 sites from Nigel Island in Canada to Coos Bay in the USA, though this is more than padded out by the authors' reflections on everything from BCs for women to nitrogen narcosis, taking up half of the book. It's not uninformative, just a slightly odd balance in a regional guide-book.
Steve Weinman

Harbour Publishing / Gazelle
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ISBN: 9781550174762
Softback, 272pp, £24.99