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Book Review: Wild and Temperate Seas

Published 5 years agoon January 5, 2021

Wild and Temperate Seas by Will Appleyard

A review by Jeff Goodman.

During these times of Covid-19 and travel being greatly restricted, it’s timely to be looking at dive sites in your own country. You will probably be very surprised at the diversity and wealth of wildlife and wrecks that your own patch has to offer. For those of us in the UK there is a perfect guide to fifty of those sites by Will Appleyard called ‘Wild and Temperate Seas’.

The first thing I usually do when looking at a new book is flip casually through to see what the images are like and was very pleased to see that the photos in this book were of a very high standard, not only in terms of quality but also content. That established, I could now comfortably settle down to read the book properly.

‘Wild and Temperate Seas’ guides us to fifty stunning dive sites in the UK. From wrecks to reefs, sea caves, lochs and other spectacular habitats and destinations. The dive sites are beautifully photographed and described with the help of Kirsty Andrews, Dan Bolt, Jason Brown, Jake Davies, Alex Gibson, Stuart Philpott and Elaine Whiteford. The journey starts in South West England and finishes up in North Roba and Sula Sgeir, north west of the Orkney Islands.

Each site is meticulously described and researched, and showcases not only the exciting dives available in the UK but also the abundance and variety of marine life held by our shores. Next time you are planning a UK dive adventure, do plan it with the help of this book. Even if you are diving somewhere local that you have visited many times, it is quite probable that this guide will reveal more to the area than you previously knew.

About the author

Will Appleyard communicates his passion for adventure through his photography and writing. The author of Discover UK Diving and Dorset Dives, he is regularly commissioned for magazines, adventure-based platforms, adventure outfitting and travel brands – www.willappleyard.com.

Wild and Temperate Seas by Will Appleyard is available now in paperback from Divedup.com, online and from retailers. ISBN 978-1-909455-34-4 | 176 pages | 234 × 156 × 10 mm

Jeff Goodman

Jeff is a multiple award winning, freelance TV cameraman/film maker and author. Having made both terrestrial and marine films, it is the world's oceans and their conservation that hold his passion with over 10.000 dives in his career. Having filmed for international television companies around the world and author of two books on underwater filming, Jeff is Author/Programme Specialist for the 'Underwater Action Camera' course for the RAID training agency. Jeff has experienced the rapid advances in technology for diving as well as camera equipment and has also experienced much of our planet’s marine life, witnessing, first hand, many of the changes that have occurred to the wildlife and environment during that time. Jeff runs bespoke underwater video and editing workshops for the complete beginner up to the budding professional.