Review: Interesting and informative
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 17, 2013
The story reflecting the title was excellent and this author’s respect for the sunken ship Thistlegorm is worth the price of admission.  He’s not the best writer or the best story teller, but there is nothing as intriguing as true stories and this author delivers.  This book is a disjointed but entertaining collection of happenings and musings while also loosely observing his typical group of diving students.  He lets slip predictable arrogant contempt for newbies and, well, many others.  And while he aims to allay fears of sharks/diving/Egypt, his own accounts defy this.  As a non-diver, there was enough detail that I could understand and enjoy what was going on without glazing over with TMI.  As an American, sometimes the British references and jargon caused me to miss some amusement, but figuring it out was part of the fun.  I was also unfamiliar with the setting and was compelled to spend some time there on Google Earth!  There are a lot of punctuation errors here and the book is self-indulgent but is overall a very good read.  I still don’t get “diving the wall”;  what wall?  There are walls down there?