Diver: A Royal Navy and Commercial Diver's Journey Through Life, and Around the World
Anyone who has ever been affiliated with a military underwater demolition team or had the desire to enlist in one will not be able to put downDiverby Tony Groom. . . . Much of his first-person narrative is a candid look at adventures, relationships, personal triumphs and failures of a man whose job is to install or defuse explosives in cold dark waters. It demands nerves of steel, since one slight error would be the last error.(Northeast Dive News)Diveris the story of Tony Groom, a man who enlisted at the age of seventeen to become a diver for the Royal Navy. Serving countless years under extremely dangerous conditions, he speaks on his past career and his current career as a commercial diver.A tale of a man who truly loves what he does when no one else would think of doing it,Diveris an enthusiastically recommended tale.(Bookwatch2009-02-01)Wide-ranging, illuminating and sympathetic ... This tale fills a massive gap and is long overdue.(Commodore Michael C. Clapp)The Royal Navy Clearance Divers, not the SAS, are the British mystery unit of the Falklands War.(Major General Julian Thompson)Epitomises theesprit de corpsof the Royal Navy's Clearance Diving branch, as well as the close-knit camaraderie of the commercial offshore diver.(Mick Fellows)