SCUBA News - #211 - Top 10 Diving Bestsellers

SCUBA News ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SCUBA News (ISSN 1476-8011) Issue 211 - December 2017 http://www.scubatravel.co.uk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Thanks very much for subscribing to SCUBA News. Our compliments of the season to you all. You can download a pdf version of SCUBA News here. Contents: What's new at SCUBA Travel? Revealed: The Diving Bestsellers of 2017 Liveaboard Deals Diving news from around the World What's New at SCUBA Travel? Gifts for Divers Stuck for ideas for presents for scuba diving friends? We've some ideas that might help Find One… Incredible Diving in Mozambique Find dugongs, dolphins, whales, turtles, whale sharks and manta rays. Learn Where… Opening-up - Diving Timor-Leste Another for the more adventurous divers, Timor-Leste or East Timor has pristine coral, sharks, six of the world's seven marine turtle species and more than 2000 species of reef fish. Read More… Revealed: The Diving Bestsellers of 2017 We're pleased to release the list of the best selling SCUBA books and DVDs in 2017. Fifty Places to Dive Before You Die keeps the top spot for another year, although it was run very close by the perennially popular Dive Atlas of the World. Four new entries prop up the list, including the interesting Deep. A single DVD features - the fascinating Blue Planet II. (If you haven't seen it then watch it - even if you look at none of the other items in the list.) Here are the top ten: figures in brackets show the previous year's position. 1. Fifty Places to Dive Before You Die: Diving Experts Share the World's Greatest Destinations by Chris Santella The fifth in Santella's bestselling "Fifty Places" series. (1) 2. Dive Atlas of the World: An Illustrated Reference to the Best Sites by Jack Jackson 300 pages detailing some of the world's best dive sites. (4) 3. Coral Reef Fishes: Indo-Pacific and Caribbean by Ewald Lieske, Robert Myers This goes on all my tropical diving holidays. (3) 4. Coral Reef Guide Red Sea by Ewald Lieske, Robert Myers Another from Lieske and Myers, excellent guide to the fish and invertebrates of the Red Sea. (7) 5. Scuba Confidential: An Insider's Guide to Becoming a Better Diver by Simon Pridmore Candid, no-nonsense practical advice from a professional who has been involved over the last three decades with virtually every aspect of the sport. (2) 6. Neutral Buoyancy : Adventures in a Liquid World by Tim Ecott Tales of the characters and episodes in the history of diving: the sponge divers, the second world war saboteurs, the free divers.... (8) 7. Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves by James Nestor Chronicles the world of deep-sea pioneers, underwater athletes, scientists, spear fishermen, billionaires and ordinary men and women who are poised on the brink of some amazing discoveries about the ocean. (-) 8. The Silent World by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Frederic Dumas 50th anniversary of the scuba diving classic (-) 9. Underwater photography masterclass by Alex Mustard Learn all you need to know to photograph the amazing creatures and landscapes that lie beneath the surface. (-) 10. Blue Planet II The DVD of the fabulous Blue Planet II series with David Attenborough (-) We've interviewed several of the authors featured in this list, including Jack Jackson and Tim Ecott. See also our diving book reviews. Liveaboard Deals 20% Off Pearl of Papua Dive Raja Ampat to Wayag Island Valid for selected dates in March Learn More… Diving News From Around the World Our round up of the best underwater news stories of the past month. For breaking news see our Twitter page or RSS feed Fiji Siren Diving Liveaboard Sinks Fji Siren liveaboard holed beneath surface and sinks. All divers safely abandoned ship. Scientists track sharks by sampling seawater New study shows that a sample of seawater can provide the identifiable tracks of numerous species of shark. Much cheaper and faster than current methods. Record for the longest chain of divers in one session 360 divers in Australia formed an underwater human chain for 15 minutes to win a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. Sea urchins help scientists develop super-strong cement A pillar made of the cement could be 8000 m high, and all because of the sea urchin blueprint. North Atlantic right whales on the brink of extinction Fishing nets and lack of food blamed for pushing number of the world's most endangered marine animal to just 450 Guatemala Announces Plan to Clean up Garbage in Caribbean Sea Clean the rivers, clean the beaches, stop throwing the garbage into the rivers and close the clandestine dumps and establish an early warning system. Continuing scourge of microplastics in water to be gauged by new research Bits of plastic under 5 millimeters in size - in cosmetics, cleaning products and clothes - are still polluting the sea and building up in oceans. Critical Habitat Area Proposed for Hawaii's False Killer Whales There are three distinct populations of False Killer Whales in Hawaii: Insular, Pelagic, and Northwestern. SCUBA News is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License. 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