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Lonely Planet Diving & Snorkeling Bahamas (Diving and Snorkeling Guides) | 
 enlarge | Author: Mike Lawrence
Brand: Lonely Planet
Category: Book
Buy Used: $18.20
Used (7) from $18.20
Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 702980
Media: Paperback
Pages: 175
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6 x 0.5
MPN: 1864501812
ISBN: 1864501812
Dewey Decimal Number: 917
EAN: 9781864501810
ASIN: 1864501812
Publication Date: May 2001
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Condition: Not ex-library. Pages clean; binding tight. Water-wrinkled; some initial pages stuck together. Good reading copy. All items shipped within 2 business days and are guaranteed. Proceeds benefit the Pima Co. Public Library, serving the greater Tucson area.
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| Features:
| | dive site depth range and conditions | | | common and hazardous marine life | | | topside practicalities | | | diving services and environmental organizations | | | 15 easy-to-read maps |
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Product Description
With 25 island groups strewn across miles of transparent blue seas, the Bahamas offers an extensive variety of marine adventures. Dive with sharks, swim with dolphins, and explore sunlit reefs, mysterious blue holes, natural wrecks and vertigo-inducing walls. Highlights include Shark Rodeo at Walkers Cay, wild dolphins at Little Bahama Bank and New Providences movie-set wrecks. Topside, indulge in great dining and nightlife on the main islands, or take off for the pristine beaches and rich culture of the Out Islands. This guide describes 108 of the archipelagos top sites, with full color photos throughout.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Pretty, but too shallow... May 28, 2001
Simon Conant (Muenchen, Bayern Germany)
17 out of 18 found this review helpful
There's some good things about this book: in typical Lonely Planet style you've got great general travel information for the area (which if I really wanted, I'd buy a general travel book).It does also cover a large number of sites - though is still far from comprehensive. And it has some nice additional information occasionally through the book. Two main peeves though. And they're killers: - Each description is a paragraph, or two at most. You can't tell me very much about a dive site in so few words. - There are no maps / diagrams for specific dive sites (just area overview maps) - a dive guide fails totally without these. It's a pretty book, but to be any use you need to include maps and more detail per site (if this was done it could be forgiven for not being totally comprehensive). In short, it's nice, but it's no use as a tool for researching a dive holiday. What'S further is I now own two of these (Red Sea and Bahamas) - I certainly will not buy another.
 Well organized and thorough July 3, 2001
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I've just used the new dive guide by Lonely Planet on my recent dive trip to the Bahamas (Eleuthera). It was an excellent resource - solid dive site descriptions of 108 sites, which were organized by dive region. For someone not familiar with the Bahamas prior to going there, I found the book an invaluable tool for helping me plan where to go.The sidebars were entertaining to read as well (and useful), and the color photos are pretty inspiring too. Recommended highly!
and where might I find these dive sites? September 18, 2001
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Agree with the "pretty but shallow" assessment below. On a recent trip to the Abacos, found it completely useless without map coordinates. There must be a market out there for dive guides without maps or GPS coordinates (people who don't actually want to dive? the clairvoyant?) but...
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