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Snorkeling Guide to Marine Life: Florida Caribbean Bahamas

Snorkeling Guide to Marine Life: Florida Caribbean BahamasAuthors: Paul Humann, Ned DeLoach
Brand: New World Publications
Category: Book

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 reviews
Sales Rank: 147067

Media: Paperback
Pages: 80
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.1 x 0.5

MPN: B05
ISBN: 1878348108
Dewey Decimal Number: 574.9759
EAN: 9781878348104

Publication Date: April 1995
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Product Description
The latest of the excellent underwater field guides by Humann and company. It illustrates all the fishes, corals, invertebrates and plants you are most likely to encounter in less than 15 feet of water in the Caribbean. Humann's photographs are among the best we've seen for identification -- and its handy size makes it perfect to take along in the boat or to the beach.


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5 out of 5 stars A great overview book of what you will see on the reef   May 31, 2010
Daniel Morrow
We were planning a diving trip to the Florida keys. There are a series of books that cover reef fish, Coral, and other reef animals. They have beautiful photography, and very detailed information. The same writers put this snorkeling guide. This snorkeling guide has many great pictures. The information is not as detailed as the series of reef books, but for less than the cost of one of the larger books, this guide will help you to understand and enjoy the wonderful reef life.
We did go on the diving trip, and having a level of understanding of the reef life that we were seeing, made the experience even more enjoyable. We did get two of the three reef books in the series (Used), but I would recommend the snorkelers guide. It is a fun book with great pictures, and an appropriate level of information for the casual diver, or snorkeler, and the price is great.



5 out of 5 stars Awesome guide for a novice snorkeler!   January 29, 2010
J. Merchant (Seattle, WA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

After reading the other reviews about this book here on Amazon, I opted to purchase it to accompany me on a 3-week kayaking trip of the outer islands of Belize. I am more or less a novice at tropical snorkeling and at the beginning of the trip, I had no idea who I was sharing my underwater adventures with, but after consulting this book before and after every dive, by the end of the trip I could say "oh, there's a stoplight parrotfish in the intermediate stage" as if I'd known my whole life. Beautiful full-color photos helped greatly with identifying my finned friends and the corals and other creatures they live with. Brief explanations of each of the groups of critters were interesting and educational too. This is definitely not a fully-encompassing guide and probably not for folks who already know most of the plants and animals they are snorkeling with in the Caribbean, but for those who are starting off completely clueless, I *HIGHLY* recommend this book. Both I and my kayaking partner (who grew up in Panama and had been diving with these guys all his life, but never knew who they were!) thoroughly enjoyed learning from this book. I'm back here on Amazon now to purchase the more comprehensive books for our next Caribbean kayaking trip! :) Two thumbs up!


4 out of 5 stars Nice book BUT!. . .   August 5, 2009
Michigan Rifleman (Lansing, MI)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

Yes this is a very nice book for identifying marine life. This is from the series of wonderful books by Paul Humann and Ned DeLoach. They did the much more informative Reef Fish ID, Reef Creature ID, and Reef Coral ID. This Snorkeling Guide has many of the same great photos and is very useful if you are satisfied with simply knowing the name of the creature. What is missing are the more extensive notes from the fuller editions; those missing notes tell WHERE the creature is found (e.g., only in the Bahamas, on the Gulf side of Florida, etc.). Also missing is the Reaction to Divers section and the more informative introductions to groups (like Angel Fish, or Wrasses). So, although this is a nice book, it really is a much simplified book for identification. It does not function as a Field Guide (the information on individual creatures is very slight). If you want a comprehensive field guide, this is not the book.


5 out of 5 stars Excellent pictures and detailed description of marine life, fish, etc   February 6, 2009
T. Bender (KS)
I am impressed with the great color pictures of the different forms of undersea life and the detailed information on characteristics of each. It is a very informative book and lightweight too. Very happy I purchased this product.


4 out of 5 stars Great book.   January 4, 2009
Jeremy L. Smelski (New York)
Great book. Has most of what you will see in real life in and the pictures make IDing things easy. Very helpful!

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