El. knyga: Diver: A Royal Navy and Commercial Diver's Journey Through Life, and Around the World

Anyone who has ever been affiliated with a military underwater demolition team or had the desire to enlist in one will not be able to put down Diver by Tony Groom. . . . Much of his first-person narrative is a candid look at adventures, relationships, personal triumphs and failures of a man whose job is to install or defuse explosives in cold dark waters. It demands nerves of steel, since one slight error would be the last error. * Northeast Dive News * Diver is the story of Tony Groom, a man who enlisted at the age of seventeen to become a diver for the Royal Navy. Serving countless years under extremely dangerous conditions, he speaks on his past career and his current career as a commercial diver. A tale of a man who truly loves what he does when no one else would think of doing it, Diver is an enthusiastically recommended tale. * Bookwatch * Wide-ranging, illuminating and sympathetic ... This tale fills a massive gap and is long overdue. -- Commodore Michael C. Clapp The Royal Navy Clearance Divers, not the SAS, are the British mystery unit of the Falklands War. -- Major General Julian Thompson Epitomises the esprit de corps of the Royal Navy's Clearance Diving branch, as well as the close-knit camaraderie of the commercial offshore diver. -- Mick Fellows