Fred Lockwood
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Fred Lockwood
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Book Review: Erebus – The story of a ship (2019)
In a title of six words, Erebus: The story of a ship, Michael Palin tells us precisely what his book is all about. Through a...
Book Review: The Boys in the Cave – Deep inside the impossible rescue in Thailand (2018)
On the 23rd June 2018 twelve members of the Thai Wild Boars youth football team, and their coach, strolled into the Tham Luang Cave in...
Book Review: Fire in the Night – The Piper Alpha Disaster (2008)
At 10.00 pm on 6th July 1988 liquid gases, under high pressure, exploded in a fireball on the Piper Alpha oil production platform. All in...
Book Review – Submerged: Adventures of America’s Most Elite Underwater Archeology Team
Some of us will have dived in Chuuk Lagoon, Federated States of Micronesia, and marvelled at the remains of massive WWII warships. Others may have...
Book Review: Deep Water By Watt Key
A deep dive, to almost thirty metres, thirty miles off the coast of Alabama, USA goes horribly wrong. In strong current, their anchor line –...
Book Review: Blind Descent by James M. Tabor
Blind Descent by James M. Tabor takes the reader into the world of super caves, to perpetual night and the remarkable men and women who...
Book Review: Fatally Flawed by Verna van Schaik
Fatally Flawed describes the journey from novice diver to World Record Holder for the deepest cave dive for a woman. However, the book is more...
Book Review: Goldfinder by Keith Jessop and Neil Hanson
It was hailed as “The Salvage of the Century”. A British consortium, with an international team of divers, working on the fringe of deep diving...
Book Review: Raising the Dead by Phillip Finch
Sometimes a dramatic story, coupled with a skilled and perceptive narrative can take us to another world. Raising the Dead, by Phillip Finch does just...
Book Review: Death in Dahab by Avi Bernstein
Death in Dahab, Avi Bernstein’s debut novel, has all the ingredients of a crime-based thriller: The drowning of a trainee scuba diver in mysterious circumstances...
