DIVING OFF THE BEATEN TRACK: Best of the Caribbean

DIVING OFF THE BEATEN TRACK: Best of the Caribbean       DIVING OFF THE BEATEN TRACK: Best of the Caribbean By Bob Burgess, 128 pages, 7x10 inches, paperback, Color photos, Maps, Index, Appendices     With 19 books and decades of diving to his credit, the author takes you off the beaten track to some of the very best dive resorts and compact liveaboards in the Caribbean and Bahamas. Often remote and rustic, where amenities seldom exist, these operations are for the discriminating diver. In most cases their clientele is small in number, their operations low key, and their business based on word of mouth and not glitzy advertisements. Includes areas of the Bahamas, Belize, Bay Islands and Cayman Islands. Table of Contents The Bahamas Sampling the Secrets of Cay Sal Bermuda Triangle: 8 Divers Down, 9 Return Boat Diving: Dish Wrecks to Dolphins Walls, Wrecks and Super Reefs The Caymans Grand Cayman: Beyond the Crowd Pirates Point: Unforgettable Feast The Bay Islands Earthquake Cracks to Unpicked Bones Think You Are In Hog Heaven? You Are Belize The Pied Pier of St. George's Cay Dive Off Dutchman's Elbow and Find Glory Blue Hole, Booby Birds and Beyond Stalking Stingrays Where Mantas Meet Fanta-Sea Rendezvous to the Black Hole About the Author Bob Burgess has been diving for over fifty years, and is a veteran journalist with 19 books and hundreds of magazine articles to his credit, most about sharks, shipwrecks, treasure hunting, marine biology and underwater archaeology. After serving with U.S. ski troops in Italy at the end of World War II, Bob finished his education in journalism. As a correspondent, his assignments included covering the French Foreign Legion, backpacking through the mountains of northern Africa and interviewing Ernest Hemingway at his last Pamplona Fiesta. Bob is an avid diver, underwater photographer, sportfisherman and sailor. He resides in Chattahoochee, Florida. Reviews "...an engaging travelogue showcasing superb diving locations in the Bahamas, the Caymans, Belize, and the Bay Islands. Full-color photographs wonderfully enhance Burgess' engaging narration making Diving Off The Beaten Track superbly fascinating reading for armchair travelers as well as an invalable Caribbean travel planning guide for avid divers."—Jim Cox, Midwest Book Reviews