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DIVER IS NOW IN STOCK, AND IS STILL SELLING FAST. Click on the book left to purchase.

The "third" print run has now arrived and should be appearing on the bookshelves around the country NOW!

So, you may now order again in the full knowledge that they will be posted out (usually) the next day.

To Purchase "A signed copy of DIVER" please click on the book to the left to be taken to the secure payment site. You can also purchase an unsigned copy, go to Amazon.co.uk Tony Groom.

If you would like it dedicated to someone, please make the name or message clear at the time of ordering in the box provided.

DIVER is a fully illustrated 336 page book. It is filled with colour and B&W pictures, Charts, cartoons etc.

It has extracts from the diary, stories from other divers that were involved in famous, and not so famous incidents. There are the less attractive body jobs, the Piper Alpha, and near misses.

One such story is from Mick O'Leary who was turned nearly upside down in a diving bell at over 500 feet, and survived to tell me about it!

Nominated for the Maritime Foundations Literary Award 2008.

These are just some of the Falklands based pages. Many of these shots have never been in the public eye before as they are mine.

Right is just one of the many illustrations. This one is charting the area at Bluff Cove that we swam as part as a 'Covert' underwater, night time opperation never written about before. Below is an extract from the book:

It was approximately 23:00 on the night of 4/5 June 1982. If only my loved ones could see me now, I thought. We swam up and down designated courses, using a combination of underwater compasses, depth gauges and swim lines. I had been in the water possibly an hour and covered a huge distance back and forth, back and forth, to the enemy bank and back.

While I guess I was about 50 metres south of the boathouse, I swam into something which made me jump. It was about a metre and a half long, cylindrical and metal!

It was too large a diameter to be a ground mine. Unless it was ‘improvised’? It had two ridges running round the casing. I moved to one end and ‘gently’ examined that. We are taught and trained to memorise the lengths of various parts of our bodies (stop it!).

From my fingertips to my opposite shoulder was 1 m 10 cm, which was how long it was, and from fingertips to armpit was 60 cm, which was the circumference of the object. The picture I was building in my mind was of a huge bean-can shape. I was just considering whether to signal Billy to come over and have a look, when I found two caps at one end: one large and one small. Mines have caps like this for the fuses.

I tried to swallow – I say tried, because I realised I had no moisture left in my mouth. It felt like it was stuffed with cotton wool.

Published by Seafarer Books, you can now see the author read extracts from the book at: http://www.seafarerbooks.com/new/NB_diver.htm

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