Dive Atlas of the World, Revised and Expanded Edition: An Illustrated Reference to the Best Sites (IMM Lifestyle Books) Wrecks, Walls, Caves, and Blue Holes from the Red Sea to the Great Barrier Reef

Take an inspirational tour of top dive sites around the world — based on first-hand experience and photographed by experts!

• 300+ page fully updated global guide to the world's top diving sites
• Written by experienced divers, local experts, leading writers, and award-winning underwater photographers
• Inspirational reference for divers who wish to personally or vicariously experience the best diving the planet has to offer
• Helps you select and locate the type of diving experience you are looking for
• Superb underwater photography shows famous wrecks, a wide range of marine habitats, and a huge diversity of species
• Appendix features lists of travel and dive information, climate, best time to go, contacts, dive operators, and emergency facilities
• Updated edition includes new facts, figures, maps, and diving standards, new dive sites, and best practices

From the Ocean Blue Hole in North Andros and the wreck of the Umbria in the Red Sea to Michaelmas on the Great Barrier Reef, Dive Atlas of the World, Revised and Expanded Edition offers a global tour of top dive sites!

More than 300 pages and 300 stunning photos will help you select and locate the type of diving experience you're looking for. From well-known classics to sites that have only recently been discovered, this huge selection offers the discerning diver a feast of locations to choose from. Explore the best places in the Atlantic, Mediterranean, Red Sea, Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, and the Caribbean, with contributions from local experts, leading writers, and award-winning photographers including the late Jack Jackson and Lawson Wood.

This expanded edition features newly updated facts, figures, maps, and diving standards, plus new dive sites, favorable travel destinations, and best practices. You'll find an emphasis on conservation projects and issues as well as descriptions of what you might find at the dive site (wrecks, sea life, conditions, etc.) and how you can best protect the area when you dive.

Lending his vast diving knowledge to this edition is Technical Editor, Nick Lucey. Nick is an industry expert and among the world's foremost scuba diving travel journalists, as well as the former Editor at Large for Scuba Diving magazine.

Whether you favor muck diving and macro photography, wrecks, walls, reefs, caves, blue holes, or the adrenaline rush of a high-speed drift dive in a strong current (or all the above!), you will find well-written, clearly mapped accounts of the top places where you can enjoy these dives inside this gorgeous dive book that'll look great on your coffee table!

Editor Jack Jackson is an advanced BS-AC diver who ran a sport diving operation in the Sudanese Red Sea for 12 years. He has been diving exotic locations around the world ever since. An award winning author and photographer, Jack has written and contributed to numerous books including Diving with Sharks, Top Dive Sites of the World, two scuba diving manuals and three Dive Guides.