Growing up in the 70's I remember seeing many Jacques Cousteau films and being amazed not just by the undersea footage but the technological marvels that enabled it, from the scuba diving gear to the underwater camera housings and lights, etc. Hugh Edwards must have used a fair amount of research and knowledge to know which areas to look as well as being able to recognise man made objects that had potentially been subject to centuries or erosion, encrustation and sediment bulid up obscuring rhem. Even as one of the pioneers of wreck diving its amazing he discovered so many. It sounds like an amazing book to read on a fascinating person who iId never heard of until your review.
It is and I can't recommend it enough. Edwards mentions Cousteau and Hess as being inspirations to him and his mates. He describes the first underwater camera they ever dived with too. The story of the ship wreaks in WA (West Australia) is an absolutly fascinating one.
Growing up in the 70's I remember seeing many Jacques Cousteau films and being amazed not just by the undersea footage but the technological marvels that enabled it, from the scuba diving gear to the underwater camera housings and lights, etc. Hugh Edwards must have used a fair amount of research and knowledge to know which areas to look as well as being able to recognise man made objects that had potentially been subject to centuries or erosion, encrustation and sediment bulid up obscuring rhem. Even as one of the pioneers of wreck diving its amazing he discovered so many. It sounds like an amazing book to read on a fascinating person who iId never heard of until your review.
It is and I can't recommend it enough. Edwards mentions Cousteau and Hess as being inspirations to him and his mates. He describes the first underwater camera they ever dived with too. The story of the ship wreaks in WA (West Australia) is an absolutly fascinating one.