Book Review: Glass and Water by Mark Harris

Peter Rowlands · Issue 85, Jul/Aug 2015 · pp. 66–67

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Book Review Glass and Water by Mark Harris Reviewed by Peter Rowlands A section on the creatures you can encounter whilst freediving is very informative in terms of how to approach and work with them. They have included most subjects you are likely to come across whilst freediving and even though the list is not comprehensive, the techniques imparted can be applied equally well to those subjects not covered. The nicest surprise for me was the ‘Virtual Dive” chapter. As the name implies it takes you on a hypothetical trip to the Hebrides on the remote NW coast of Scotland. The delivery is as if you are being watched from above and guided as to how to conduct yourself and make your decisions in order to get the best images from the trip. The result is a subtle body of information which will prove invaluable and I suspect will live in the minds of those emerging freedivers, on location, kee…