Down Under Magic - US edition

ISBN: 1477575804

Author: Silvester, Bill

Condition: New

Product DescriptionDown Under Magic is a fascinating story of one mans love of the ocean and how it led to the foundation of the Black Rock Underwater Diving Group - one of the first SCUBA clubs in Australias history. From this band of friends came the Associated Divers Academy. The struggles, the temptations, the risks taken with limited knowledge of the consequences of breathing underwater, make for absorbing reading. This book documents for the first time the early history of skin and SCUBA diving in Victoria and Southern NSW. It shares too, how the first single-hose regulators in the world were constructed near the same time, by the talents of two Australians Lionel Martin and Ted Eldridge. Bill has inside information on how Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared. Down Under Magic contains photos of Bill with the Pime Minister before his disappearance off Cheviot Beach on December 17, 1967.About the AuthorBill's life has been diving and and filming underwater, especially around the Julian Rocks in Byron Bay. He wrote and has had published" The Down Under SCUBA Diver" and "The Magic of SCUBA" as well as many diving articles in national publications. He has owned and operated diving schools and was one of the founders of SCUBA diving training organisations in Australia. He was instrumental in having the Julian Rocks declared a Marine Reserve in 1981.