Into
the Abyss
Rod Macdonald
To many people, simply leaving the comforting security of dry land and stepping onto a boat can be a terrifying ordeal. Therefore, to deliberatly journey 10-20 miles offshore into hostile, powerfull seas before diving down into those waters seeking untouched, virgin shipwrekcs - often in the pitch blackness of deep water - seems incomprehensible. For Rod Macdonald, however, it has ben an all-consuming passion since he first started diving in 1982.
Into the Abyss charts the dramatic highs and lows of Macdonald's diving career - once that has been packed full of incident, drama and excitment and has taken him to all of the great shipwreck sites of the world. From the sunken Japanese Fleet at the bottom of Truk Lagoon and Palau in the Pacific to diving into the third largest whirlpool in the world - the Corryveckan Whirlpool off the west coast of Scotland - Macdonald's work has taken him on a spell-binding journey beneath the seas. Macdonald reflects upon the excitement, the successes and the near-tragic failures of his diving career so far and urges readers to overcome some of Man's deepest fears as he takes them on a journey into the abyss in search of long-lost shipwrecks around the world.
Pages: 208 Hardback
ISBN:1 84018 718 2
Price: € 27.50
Available November 2003