The Art Of Diving

I am the proud owner of the first purchased copy, signed by Alex and Nick.

Now I just need the cover signed !

Oh, and by the way, I'm happy to sign page 14 if anyone is interested in the gorgeous hunk on the photo.

You scare me frog boy!

Good work, JP!

I finally got to see a copy last night, after JP!

I must say that I am incredibly pleased with how it looks, and I think it offers excellent value for money. I also read it today - cover to cover - well I was on a plane - and I forgot how many cool people are featured in it. There are quotes from (to name drop a few) JC, J-M C, other Cousteaus, Hans Hass, Howard Hall, Lou Feed, Ned DeLoach, Helmut Debelius, Cathy Church, Zena Holloway, Tanya Streeter + lots of other freedivers, plus several esteemed members of this forum. Also everyone around me on the flights was asking about it - and I just had to drop into the conversation that it just happened to be my book!

The weird thing is seeing a book with pictures of all your friends in. Quite surreal.

Anyway I am stuck in Palm Beach Airport (very tired as I am still on UK time where it is 02:45am) waiting for young Mr Cheng to arrive. Unbeknown to him, I have the first copy of The Art Of Diving to make it into the states, waiting here for him.

Alex

I am away with the gang here in Palm Beach, but I have just heard that the British Diving magazines, for those who get the chance to see them, are running features on The Art Of Diving this month:

http://www.divemagazine.co.uk/ is out now, and will be followed in a few days by

http://www.divernet.com/index.shtml

Alex

You can also order it at amazon.de (for all of my fellow germans on wetpixel) for 31,90 € (which I did).

The german edition is currently being printed - at the moment amazon.de is supplying the English edition. The german one will be out soon.

Also the book is now available on the high street in the UK.

Alex

Hi all,

Just recieved my copies of Diver and dive. I haven't had a chance to read up yet but being described as the best thing since Cousteau's 'silent world' by David Doubilet is a honour in itself..ell done Alex and Nick..

Also in 'DIVER' is Mike's super artical on sharks in Rangiroa.. Looks good.

Although I would complain about the (ment to be) photo of him at the start of the mag... They've used a shot of a 'Mr potato head' promotion

Good on ya girls..

Dive safe

DeanB

Here are examples of the coverage in the UK diving magazines:

DIVE:

Diver:

Dive Magazine has also put this virtual preview of the book online:

http://mag1.olivesoftware.com/ActiveMagazi...VM/DVM-2006.asp

Which gives a nice idea of the product.

Alex

Alex:

I got my copy a couple of days ago.

I have to say this is the best Diving Book I ever had in my hands. The Pictures are spectacular and the texts are really worth reading!

Simon

Thank you so much for the kind words Simon. It really means a lot to me.

The German language version will be on sale in about two weeks:

Price 26.50 Euros for pre-orders before the official release on the 16th April. Once released the price will be 29.90 Euros.

http://www.taucher.net/aktuell_Der_Traum_v...iegen_1713.html

Alex

so much cooler than

'photography: Alex Mustard'

'Fotos: Alex Mustard'

us english should adopt the word fotos

got the book. definately more non-traditional, which I love! very cool.

The only excuse I can come up with for not having a copy yet is ... hey i lived it ... i don't need to read about it.

it is on my amazon wishlist ... it will be mine !!

Has Alex even got his own copy yet ?

When will it be available in the USA?

I don't know the answer to that, Dave.

The publishing company behind the book are currently negotiating the US edition/US distribution rights. I would expect a pre-Christmas release of a US edition.

In the meantime there is nothing to stop individual US shops ordering the UK Edition.

http://www.artofdiving.com/Ultimate_Sports/Sales/index.html

Also I finally got some copies myself this week that I am happy to send out signed. Unfortunately the postage costs to the States is about £13 - which kind of negates the effort we made in trying to get this book out at such a cheap price (£20). Obviously if you get them from me you can get signed ones.

To put that price in perspective The Art Of Diving costs 50% of the price of Paul Humann's popular Caribbean Reef Fish ID book here in the UK (which usually sells for £39.95). http://www.aquapress.co.uk/bookDetail.asp?id=154&cat=24

Early sales have been strong - fingers crossed they continue...

Alex

HI Alex & Nick,

the book is exellent & it should fly off the shelves for a very long

time, if I could only take fotos half as well I would be very happy

Counting down to July. i can't wait

well done. BTW is their anything you cannot do?

Andy

My brother and sister in law just got back from England. Don't know why I didn't think of having them pick up a copy.

You can order from amazon.co.uk and have it sent to the USA can you not ?

I have done it to Cayman with books in the past.

I just ordered one to be shipped to U.S from the link Alex posted above:

http://www.artofdiving.com/Ultimate_Sports/Sales/index.html

Delivery estimate is 25-27 April.

You can order from amazon.co.uk and have it sent to the USA can you not ?

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Amazon UK also have the book on sale for a reduced price - which will help offset the shipping costs if you are not a UK person. For UK people it is a bit of a false economy, because the book would ship for free if it was on sale at its recommended price!

The book has been doing fantastically well at Amazon.co.uk - it is regularly in the top 1000 best sellers and occassionally dips into the top 500 of all books (at time of writing it is at 778 - this updates all the time). This is amazing for an UW book - as most diving books have a Sales Rank of somewhere between 10,000 and 30,000!

Also if anyone has time to write a review on Amazon I would be very grateful. They can be very short - the idea is just to be helpful to other customers.

Alex