Ocean
Gladiator
Mark Ellyatt
Ocean
Gladiator is a collection of scuba stories from Mark Ellyatt. Starting diving
'properly' in 1991 saw
Mark getting lost at sea during his open water course and then suffering a
serious case of the bends on
his fourth dive. Surprisingly he was not put off.
Becoming a diving instructor 3 years later Mark embarked
on an underwater odyssey with a penchant for deep water and sometimes deep
trouble.
Throughout the book Mark focuses on life as a diving instructor and particularly
the evolution of
technical diving during the last 12 years. He reveals the ups and downs
experienced during some
of the most adventurous scuba dives ever conducted.
Chapter
1: All At Sea…Recreational horror stories
Chapter
2. First Break In The Business...New Instructor in the Caribbean
Chapter
3. Deeper Interest...Deep Air and Deep Trouble
Chapter
4: Clarity Beckons...Trimix in the early days
Chapter
5: Overhead Ineptitude...Bahamas and some Cave Cowboys
Chapter
6. Hurds Deep - Hurts Deep...Woman's Depth Record 180 metres
Chapter
7: SMS BADEN meets the Ocean Terrorist...Deepest Wreck Dive 180 metres
Chapter
8: A Youth-in-Asia story...Tech Diving Thai Style
Chapter
9: Coniston Copper Mine…Entrance to Hell - 170 metres/21 minutes
Chapter
10: The Deepest Dive - An Ocean of Problems...260 metres + 3 hours Deco...Ouch!
Chapter
11: 313 metres - My Own 18.12 Overture...Deepest Scuba Dive - 1032
feet of fun
Chapter
12: Victoria’s Secret...The ultimate wreck diving project
Includes
a Glossary of Terms and Slang - plus 8 photographs - total 352
pages