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As much as people try to portray diving as adventurous, very often these days it isn’t. You board a charter boat with 20 other people and get taken to a dive site that’s been visited a million times before, and picked clean by everyone before you. And that’s while you’re being led by a divemaster who still uses acne cream.

In short, diving these days is a little tame. We need a lesson or two from those who started when George Michael was still in Wham and Frankie Goes to Hollywood were telling everyone to relax.

Enter wreck guru Rod Macdonald, and his book Into the Abyss. For divers who started diving when BSAC clubs were full of men with more facial hair than Dave Lee Travis, when RIBs were actually Zodiacs and, if you hired a hardboat, it came with a lovely smell of fish from the morning’s catch; this book is a trip down memory lane.

For those of you who didn’t know a time before mandatory life-rafts, back-lifts, wing systems and nitrox, this will be a revelation. Six months’ pre-training before getting in the water, panic stricken first boat dives, awe-inspiring virgin wreck dives – this book has the lot. Macdonald really was on a voyage of discovery, and he shares it in intricate detail, as if he was sitting beside you, telling the story in person.