Читать книгу Deeper into the Darkness онлайн

3 страница из 184

In Scapa Flow, I inflict myself on Bob Anderson and the MV Halton, and Ben Wade and Emily Turton of the MV Huskyan.

In Truk Lagoon, Truk Stop Dive Center & Hotel on Weno are particularly accommodating of my needy requests, kindly assigning a private boat to my team where needed.

In Palau, I use Sam’s Tours based in Koror, where they have a great setup and location. Without exception, Sam’s is staffed by lovely people who also go out of their way to accommodate my requests to dive the World War II shipwrecks, which are mainly overlooked by visiting divers in favour of the stunning reef and wall diving, truly some of the best in the world.

In Guadalcanal, I used Tulagi Dive based at the Point Cruz Yacht Club in Honiara, where Neil Yates and Troy effortlessly and expertly sorted me out.

For archive photographs, I am grateful to the Imperial War Museum (IWM), Orkney Library and the U.S. National Archives.

Finally I’d like to say thank you to my editor, Caroline Petherick, for all her hard work bringing this book together. Over the years I’ve struggled with some editors of my books due to the technical nature of diving, ships and the nautical terminology involved. But Caroline has worked with me on my last three books – and seems to be all things to all people. As well as being a gifted wordsmith, she dives, has a pilot’s licence, and has a good grasp of the sea and all things nautical. It has been a pleasure dealing with her again.