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Having now written about the greatest shipwrecks around the UK, as I brainstormed for a way of writing professionally about a subject other than shipwrecks, I came up with the idea of writing a book that charted the highs and lows of my diving career, which had begun back in the early 1980s as a novice diver and progressed through the development of our sport up until the advent of technical diving. The resultant book, Into the Abyss – Diving to Adventure in the Liquid World, was published in 2003 and was a collection of true life stories of my diving adventures, such as diving into the heart of the Corryvreckan Whirlpool off Jura, in western Scotland – a dive that seemed to resonate and attract a lot of attention. Diving like this was just what my group of divers did. We didn’t think it was anything special – but some of the stories seemed to have had readers breaking out in cold sweats if the reviews, which were unanimously positive, were to be believed. The review I liked best featured in Diver magazine in 2004 and ran: