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Ashton East - Shipwreck Decoder, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

Shipwreck Decoder

A Handbook for Divers and Maritime Enthusiasts

Av Ashton East

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Transform your understanding of the underwater world with The Shipwreck Decoder. This essential illustrated guide helps you understand the silent stories told by submerged vessels. This insightful handbook delves into the features of shipwrecks, placing them in their rich historical context. It teaches you how to interpret your observations. Spanning different eras of maritime technology, it covers details from hull construction and propulsion systems to armaments and navigation instruments. As a result, it will help maritime enthusiasts - including divers - to truly 'read' these underwater time capsules.For Divers: This book enhances the experience and understanding of shipwreck divers. You'll learn how to orient yourself on a wreck using engine components or understand construction methods. These practical details are directly valuable for divers. It helps you explore more confidently and make better sense of every dive.For Maritime Enthusiasts: The book deeply explores marine engineering, historical timelines of technology, and the evolution of ship design and equipment. It covers ancient vessels to Cold War era ships. Therefore, it provides rich content for anyone passionate about the subject, archaeology, and naval architecture. The knowledge you gain will significantly enhance your appreciation of the topic. This includes, for example, dives, maps, charts, logs, museum displays, and even documentaries.Featuring 400+ original illustrations.A practical guide and reference book.A primer and briefing aid for understanding what to look for and how to interpret findings.NOTE ON THE 2026 REPRINT: The revised 2026 reprint incorporates technical corrections to the original 2025 text. Owners of the original printing can download a free Errata/Updates list at https://www.divedup.com/updates/shipwreck-decoder
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2025-09-30
  • Mått: 229 x 12 x 146 mm
  • Vikt: 385 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Dived Up Guides
  • Antal sidor: 208
  • Förlag: Dived Up Publications
  • ISBN: 9781909455429
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Ashton East's passion for the underwater world began long before he could join his parents' diving adventures at age twelve. Over the decades, he has become an accomplished underwater photographer and technical diver, exploring shipwrecks globally. His desire to truly understand these submerged time capsules led him to study nautical archaeology courses, review literature and visit museums, approaching the subject with the keen, analytical eye developed during his extensive legal career. What started as a Covid lockdown project documenting these explorations is now published as a must-have guide for enthusiasts of all sunken vessels.

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'The more you know about ship features, the better equipped you are to use components to navigate or "decode" a wreck... Strongly recommended.'- SCUBA Magazine'I would recommend it to any casual recreational wreck-diver, to budding archaeological divers and, I reckon, it could fill many a gap even in experienced wreck-divers' knowledge. You won't spend a better GBP20 for a dive-related book.'- Divernet.com'A wonderfully useful book, and I cannot recommend it too highly.'- David Gibbins, Maritime Archaeologist, New York Times and London Sunday Times Bestselling Author.'I'm amazed how much information Ashton has managed to cram into several hundred pages - I've certainly learned a lot!'- Dominic Robinson, Deep Wreck Diver.'I wish this book had been available 30 years ago when I learnt to dive. I have loved diving on and investigating shipwrecks since those very first open water dives in Portland Harbour, but for years never really knew what it was I was looking at. Now all new divers can. There are few books that are specifically targeted at helping divers get a better understanding of what lies on the seabed in such a clear way so this should become a mainstay in every diver's library.'- Mark Beattie-Edwards, CEO, Nautical Archaeology Society.'This is a fantastic book.'- Giles Richardson, COO, Maritime Archaeology Sea Trust.'Thanks to this little gem of a book, that confusing pile of scrap on the sea bed will just make a lot more sense - you’ll know where to look for stuff, how to interpret what you see and maybe even find that illusive ship’s bell! For me, that makes The Shipwreck Decoder an essential and invaluable resource for any diver.'-- Jason Brown, Bardo Photographic.

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