Book & Film Reviews

Peter Rowlands · Issue 29, Mar/Apr 2006 · pp. 54–55

Products mentioned: The Art of Diving (book), IMAX Deep Sea 3D (film), Reef, Wreck & Critter Tulamben (book), Olympus digital compact cameras

Book & Film Reviews The Art of Diving By Nick Hanna and Alexander Mustard When a book arrives on your desk with a quote from David Doubilet saying “This is the best book about diving since Jacques Cousteau’s The Silent World”, you stop what you’re doing and pay attention. The Art of Diving and adventure in the underwater world (to give it it’s far too long a title) is a collaboration between experienced journalist Nick Hanna and excellent underwater photographer Alexander Mustard. Not to put too fine a point on it, this is a publishing marriage made in heaven. The Art of Diving is a 272 page visual and textual celebration of our world and is laid out with excellent visual punctuation held together by Hanna’s easy but comprehensive style of prose and illustrated with Mustard’s consistently imaginative images. A book about diving is a daunting prospect to pull off as it is such an all enco…