Book Reviews

An extract from Czech photographer Michal Štros’ new book Underwater Magic, exploring macro dive sites, collages and vintage lenses

Issue # 43: Alternative perspectives DIVE’s Autumn ’26 magazine is here! Packed as always with great writing and fantastic underwater…

Issue # 42: The magic touch DIVE’s Summer ’26 magazine is here! Packed with some of the best underwater photographers…

Howard Rosenstein’s personal history of his journey as a Red Sea scuba diving pioneer, as told in his fantastic book…

Physicist, oceanographer and author Helen Czerski talks to Jo Caird about Blue Machine, her award-winning book about the physics of…

A review of The Adriatic Affair: A Maritime Hit-and-Run off the Coast of Nantucket By Jennifer N Sellitti, published by…

A review of Treasures, Shipwrecks and the Dawn of Red Sea Diving, by Howard Rosenstein, published by Dived Up –…

The Coral Triangle in the western Pacific Ocean is home to the greatest variety of marine life on the planet.…

Mark ‘Crowley’ Russell reviews the amazing story that is The Diver and the Cook by Lasse Spang Olsen, published by Dived Up.…

Ten books about diving and other ocean-related themes that make the ideal gifts for scuba divers and their favourite dive…

An extract from the book Treasures, Shipwrecks And The Dawn Of Red Sea Diving, in which Red Sea scuba diving…

Alex Mustard’s latest book 52 Assignments: Underwater Photography is packed with great tips to improve your technique. Here are three…

Ideas to get your creative juices flowing – Jenny Stock reviews 52 Assignments – Underwater Photography by Alex Mustard; Ammonite…

A pocket-size treat for shark lovers – a review of Sharkpedia, A Brief Compendium of Shark Lore by Daniel C…

Wayne B Brown, CEO of one of the world’s largest and most successful liveaboard operators, Aggressor Adventures, has published his…

Dived Up Publications, a leading publisher of scuba diving and dive-related books, has announced a new partnership with the UK’s…

High crimes on the High Seas – a review of The High Seas; Ambition, Power and Greed on the Unclaimed…

Paul Humann, best known as the co-founder of New World Publications – which printed the internationally renowned Reef Fish Identificaton…

Helen Scales’ beautifully illustrated new book, Around the Ocean in 80 Fish & Other Sea Life, reveals much about the…

A review of Many Things Under a Rock – The Mysteries of Octopuses, by David Scheel In recent years we…

A review of The Bathysphere Book, Effects of Luminous Ocean Depths by Brad Fox – an extraordinary book about an…

A review of Britain’s Living Seas, Our Coastal Wildlife and How We Can Save It, by Hannah Rudd This 160-page…

In A Diver’s Guide to the World, Carrie Miller and Chris Taylor explore 50 of the world’s top dive spots…

Ray Nayler’s The Mountain in the Sea is a stunning work of science fiction, which – unlike other underwater adventures…

Marine biologist and published poet Fiona Gell grew up on the Isle of Man and later returned to help set…

A review of Spring Tides, Exploring Marine Life on the Isle of Man by Fiona Gell £16.98, W&N The literary…

A powerful polemic calling for action to save our blue planet When it comes to saving the planet, forget green…

A moving story by Julie Berwald which intertwines a personal drama with the global crisis of coral conservation Life on…

Culbert McFinn, also known as ‘The Captain’, is a grizzled old lighthouse keeper based on the Fijian island of Maloto.…

Rosemary E Lunn reviews the Global Underwater Explorers’ (GUE) recently updated manual Doing It Right: The Fundamentals of Better Diving…