Into the Abyss, the first volume in The Diving Trilogy, is a fascinating collection of true life diving adventures from Rod’s long and varied diving career. It follows his progression from novice diver in the 1980s through the dangers of the deep air diving era and on to trimix diving in the 1990s where divers began to use commercial mixed breathing gases as the sport of technical diving was born. This opened up vast, previously inaccessible, swathes of the seabed, ushering in a great era of discovery of virgin shipwrecks, lost in time.
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Rod MacDonald. Into the Abyss
Contents
The Pinnacle, Corryvreckan Whirlpool,West Scotland
The Beckoning Depths
Learning Curve
Kyle of Lochalsh and HMS Port Napier
Circles within Circles
Scapa Flow
Ceilidh on Hoy
Truk Lagoon – Micronesia
Palau – Micronesia
Blackout on the SS Fram
Coll, Tiree and the SS Labrador
The San Tiburcio and the yellow helicopter
Trimix – the Door opens
Evolution is a Slow Process
Submerged
At last – RMS Remuera
HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse
Into the Corryvreckan whirlpool
Post Script
GLOSSARY
Plate Section
Plate Section 2
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INTO THE ABYSS
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
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Looking upwards, I could see the silhouette of the upper most 4-inch gun - but it lies in much shallower water nearer the surface where the kelp is thick and strong and so it was partially obscured by a carpet of kelp fronds.
Just forward of the 4-inch guns, anchor chains rose out of spurling pipes from a chain locker below decks and ran to an anchor windlass before snaking off in great suspended loops to the anchor hawse pipes. Beyond the hawse pipes, the hull started to sweep together and narrow as we headed to the very tip of the bow itself.
