Deep Into Blue Holes: The Story of the Andros Project

by Rob Palmer

Book Overview

Book by Palmer, Rob This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0964378663
• ISBN13: 9780964378667
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: Media Publishing Ltd.
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Telling it like it is.

As I have already said in another review of this man's work, for those who knew the late Rob Palmer, as I once did, I think most would agree he was difficult to like but easy to respect for his work. In life he always sought to be different - and in many ways that was from where his great gift of being a diving pioneer came. Until his early death just a few short years ago (already!) Rob Palmer was the one man who knew more about true Blue Holes than any other person on earth. In 1985 I was appointed Chief Diver for Operation Raleigh and Rob was one of the Diving Officer's responsible for a specific diving project out in the field. Because of his own particular skills and experience, I was aware that he at least "knew what he was doing." Today, all divers who call themselves "Technical Diver" because of their use of mixed gases, Nitrox etc, owe something to the Rob Palmers of this world for their pioneering work in testing different gases to different extents - so that we who follow may dive ever deeper and ever further - in greater safety. This book puts into perspective his work with regard to the Blue Holes over many years. It explains the successes, the disappointments and the excitement that went hand in glove with this particular sphere of exploration. It is well written and tells a very important story. Whether or not you personally get to dive the Blue Holes of the Caribbean - this is a book which every scuba diver should read. Having personally "been there, done that and got the T-shirt" (Really!) I fully recommend the Blue Holes if only because they offer a different type of diving from anywhere else in the world. Should you feel the same way and want to learn more about these incredible phenomena - especially the Blue Holes of the Bahamas, then this book becomes essential reading. NM

Rob Palmer's Legacy

Deep Into Blue Holes is a great read if for nothing more than the adventure of going where no man had gone before. It is much more than that if the readers involve themselves in understanding the technology used in Palmer's efforts to explore deep and stay long. Cutting edge at the time and very expensive, it's now available to all cave divers. As an aside, Palmer, now deceased, is rolling over in his watery grave if he can see the ecological damage done (and still being done) to those beautiful Bahamian inner spaces. Having dived some of these myself and seen their mysterious beauty, cave divers and ecologists everywhere should unite in their efforts to prevent similar abuses to resources like these wherever they may be.

Honest history of diving the deep holes and caves of Andros

Palmer uses a fine documentative approach, weaving the evolution and aspects of technical diving with the biology and history of the Andros Island blue holes and caves. The challenging, sometimes fatal experiences of diving these beautiful caves is described in a smooth almost conversational style. A great read for divers, and anyone interested in the Caribbean.

FANTASTIC for the adventurist diver!

I once had a copy of this book; sadly, no longer. I loaned it to a friend who moved to higher places and well, I never got my book back.Although not a caver or a cave diver myself (I am too scared of tight little dark holes), this book is very appealing for that very fact - the "squeezes" that the divers go through to find the "ultimate" cave makes for terrific reading. So much so that it could (almost) make me take to cave diving. The book has numerous full colour plates showing the terrific underwater scenery of the Blue Holes (of Andros Island in the Bahamas). If you're into diving pictures, they alone are worth the book.Rob Palmer is one of cave diving's greats. He's dived with pretty much the who's who in the world of cave and 'extreme' (depth) divers. While the book tells in detail hopw each dive is conquered, sobering thoughts jump to mind when a story relates how the divers turn a bend in the channel they think they are the first to discover, and find the body of a previous explorer who got lost and couldn't find his way out.....Gripping stuff. Wish I still had my copy.