Beneath Irish Seas: The Hidden Wonders of Ireland's Amazing Marine Life

Peter Rowlands · Issue 147, Nov/Dec 2025 · pp. 78–79

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We tend only to review books about underwater photography - techniques, equipment and so on - but this new book by Nigel Motyer breaks the trend and deserves special treatment. I think it’s fair to say that this review will probably not encourage too many sales within the underwater photography community; an underwater photographer rarely relishes receiving a book of another underwater photographers images so this review is to encourage present seekers to buy this book for non divers to show them just how stunning the underwater world is and especially in Irish waters. Captured over 4 decades, this collection of images is a celebration of the extraordinary depth and variety of subjects and environments from this isle in the North Atlantic, little visited by travelling underwater photographers. 225 hard back pages, 23cm x 22cm in size, full to bursting with high quality images of the the …