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DEEPER INTO THE DARKNESS
Published by
Whittles Publishing Ltd.,
Dunbeath,
Caithness, KW6 6EG,
Scotland, UK
© 2018 Rod Macdonald
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ISBN 978-184995-360-3
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Also by Rod Macdonald:
Dive and history guides:
Dive Scapa Flow
Dive Scotland’s Greatest Wrecks
Dive England’s Greatest Wrecks
Great British Shipwrecks — a Personal Adventure
Force Z Shipwrecks of the South China Sea — HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse
Dive Truk Lagoon —the Japanese World War II Pacific Shipwrecks
Dive Palau — the Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks of Truk Lagoon
The Technical Diving Trilogy: diving adventures, from novice diver to mixed-gas closed-circuit rebreather technical diver
1. Into the Abyss — Diving to Adventure in the Liquid World
2. The Darkness Below
3. Deeper Into the Darkness
http://www.whittlespublishing.com/Rod_Macdonald
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rod-Macdonald
CONTENTS
Book one World War I Naval Wrecks around the UK
4 Explorers Club Flag No 192 expedition to survey HMS Hampshire
6 The Battle of May Island 31 January 1918
10 Diving the shipwrecks of Truk Lagoon
11 IJN Kamikaze-class destroyer Oite
Book Three Latest Developments
17 The desecration of naval war graves in the South China Sea, Java Sea and Jutland
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
As ever, I am grateful to my long time (and long-suffering) dive buddies, Paul Haynes, Gary Petrie and Greg Booth, for taking part in my adventures in the UK and around the world in such far-flung places as Truk and Palau.
For providing some wonderful underwater shots, I am grateful to Bob Anderson of the Scapa Flow-based dive boat MV Halton, and Ewan Rowell, Barry McGill and Richard Barnden.
I am also grateful to those in the many dive centres and dive boats who have gone out of their way to accommodate my unusual requests when out of the blue I pitch up on their doorsteps with an idea for another book, determined to dive only metal, and avoid at all costs fish, fauna and wet rock:
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
