Diving magazines - Meaningless drivel? March 31, 2006
Posted by onthetrain in : a good old rant , 2commentsGod, Is it just me or What?
Test reports on dive reels.
Cornish dive sites, 5 GB sites to get your teeth into.
A red sea special! Untouched red sea.
Big fish in big numbers, Big blue shark special
Computors on test
God it’s all such repetitive bullshit. I’m so sick of reading the same old rehashed crap in Dive & Diver. Once you have been diving for more than 5 minutes it’s all repeated. Now I get Dive for ‘free’ with my BSAC membership, but I actually subscribed to Diver. Thank god the subscription runs out soon. It won’t be renewed.
I recently bought my first copy of Ron mahony’s ‘Beyond The Blue’. I don’t know about you, but I found it really refreshing. OK, its not as well packaged. OK, it’s got a lot of typo’s and spelling errors, but I found it a fascinating read. It’s obvious the writers are amatuers, but for me this adds rather than detracts from the product.
These are guys who know about the type of diving I want to do. I get to read about real divers diving deep wrecks and hear about the planning and logistics that went into the dive. Great stuff.
Oh, and another thing, it’s about one third of the thickness of the other two, and guess what? A few discreet pages of adverts. Thats it. A great magazine in my opinion. Guess where my subscription cash will be going?
TTFN. Alan
