Leopard Seal: Scuba Diving in TheAntarctic

How does it feel to dive without a cage in the freezing Antarctic Southern Ocean with a Leopard Seal, a fierce and inquisitive predator?Brian Clargo has been a diver for over fifty years and with his wife Yolanda, has dived more than 1,300 times in the world’s best dive sites including the Antarctic, the Red Sea, the South Pacific, the Mediterranean, South Africa, Iceland and the temperate waters around the UK. He has dived with most varieties of sharks and other aggressive marine creatures as an underwater photographer and has many photographs published in his books and diving magazines. This book is a photographic record of an expedition to the Antarctic in 2008 specifically undertaken to dive with Leopard Seals and describes in detail the issues encountered when diving in sub-zero oceans and the interactions with large, agile and fearless predators when survival itself plays a part in managing the extreme cold. Taking photographs in this environment is extremely challenging.This book shows what occurred in great detail:· The expedition with 140 photographs including 50 underwater, showing every activity· Leopard Sealswith 25 original photographs taken by the author during the dives.· 12 maps showing the route taken by the expedition ship MV Grigorij Mikheef around the Antarctic peninsula.· The details and locations of the 7 dives with log detailsThe reader will find out what it is like to undertake such a venture from firsthand experience. Read more