Movies now media Rum Runners, U-Boats & Hurricanes on DVD By Bryan Galecki Books Film DVDs CDs Perfect bound softcover: 310 pages Edited by Peter Symes Publisher: Pine Belt Publishing & Gunild Pak Symes ISBN 0-9769223-0-4 Price US$19.95 POINT & CLICK A complete history of the 125-ft (42m) Coast ON BOLD LINKS Guard Cutters Bedloe and Jackson lost in the Great Atlantic Hurricane of 1944 off the coast of North Carolina, USA, while attempting to rescue the passengers of a liberty ship. Includes previously Diver Down unpublished illustrations and photographs as well By Michael R. Ange as a thoroughly researched history of these vessels Paperback: 192 pages by former diver and author, Bryan Galecki, who Publisher: International Marine/ recounts the vessels’ harrowing three-day struggle Ragged Mountain Press. 2006 for survival and loss of 48 crewmen, record setting ISBN: 0071445722 dive expeditions in the Great Lakes, the perils of U- Price: US$15.95 boat warfare at the end of World War II from the Real life true stories of divers in danger- Chesapeake Bay to the Caribbean, the vessels’ roles IMAX Movie: ous situations such as running out of air, in confronting smugglers in the 1920s off the New Volcanoes of the Deep Sea paralysis and being towed by powerful England coast and rum running days of Prohibition. Directed by Stephen Low currents is covered in this book which www.pinebeltpublishing.com Narrated by Ed Harris analysises each tale, how the things Written by Alex and Stephen Low went wrong, what to see, avoid and how Executive Producer: J. Cameron to respond to underwater emergencies. Studio: Image Entertainment It is a survival guide for both recreational Run Time: 60 minutes divers and technical divers exploring wrecks, Genre: Short / Documentary caves and deep depths. Covers inspection Few places on Earth remain veiled and maintenance of dear, safety protocols, in mystery like the depths of the training and practice of emergency response ocean where very few have seen under duress. books.mcgraw-hill.com life and even fewer visited the depths. Now, you can be there, 12,000 feet (4,000m) below the Ironclad: Loss of the USS Monitor surface with Alvin, a deep-sea By Paul Clancy submersible, which makes a voy- Hardcover: 288 pages Fishy Friends age to the Azores to explore Publisher: International Marine Childrens Book the ever-erupting volcanic rift Publishing Company. 2005 By Michael Patrick O’Neill between North America and ISBN: 0071431322 Hardcover: 64 pages Europe. Visit a strange undersea Price: US$16.47 Publisher: Batfish Books. 2003 world once thought not to support On December 31st, 1862, The USS Monitor went down off ISBN: 0972865306 life, now revealed to be team- Cape Hatteras, Virginia. Sixteen men died that day. By Reading level: Ages 9-12 ing with life... strange creatures investigating salvaging accounts of the revolving gun turret Price: US$13.57 and dramatic landscapes. State 140 years later, author Paul Clancy raises questions about Sure to please young readers, of the art lighting technology the captain’s statement that there were only three men Fishy Friends is an entertaining and gives the film visual superiority to left on the ailing vessel—those that refused to come down well-humoured tale of marine life brought to you by Charlie the Crab, anything shot before. Now play- from the gun turret, the ship’s highest point. After search- the endearing narrator of a book by award winning photographer and ing in an IMAX theatre near you, ing through newpaper accounts and interviewing experts writer Michael Patrick O’Neill. The book has been given strong endorse- or buy the DVD. Features include in coastal oceanography, Clancy adds new details and ments by the editors of Ranger Rick, Smithsonian and BBC Wildlife various language tracks in English insights into the final voyage of the Monitor whose great Magazine. www.amazon.com and French, educational video, battle with the Virginia ended in a draw and changed behind-the-scenes video film naval warfare by making wooden warships obsolete. facts and trivia quiz. DVD Price: www.amazon.com or www.amazon.co.uk US$19.99 www.amazon.com 82 X-RAY MAG : 9 : 2006 EDITORIAL FEATURES TRAVEL NEWS EQUIPMENT BOOKS SCIENCE & ECOLOGY EDUCATION PROFILES PORTFOLIO CLASSIFIED review Movies Coming Soon... By Peter Symes media Books Film DVDs CDs Underwater Digital Video Made Easy By Steven M. Barsky, Lance Milbrand, and Mark Thurlow Paperback: 192 pages, over 150 photographs and illustrations ISBN Number: 0-9674305-5-0 Price: US$23.95 Dive Destinations DVD Price GB£6.95 I am not an underwater videographer, but What a package deal: The Ultimate Dive this book made me want to become one, Destinations guide book and Red Sea and that speaks volumes of its qualities. It Odyssey: The Ultimate Red Sea Guide DVD really is a high art form to write a clear, yet together, brought to you by BBC news- comprehensive “How-to” guide book with- man John McIntyre in conjunction with out resorting to complex language or Sport Diver UK magazine with contributions a huge volume of intricate words and from colleagues Miranda Krestiovnikoff of technical phrases. This book is a good Wreck Detectives and renowned under- example of how well it can be done. water photographers Tony White and There is sufficient detail, precisely bal- IMAX Movie: Lawson Wood. This year’s edition covers 56 anced with brevity, presented in a pleas- Deep Sea 3D of the world’s best dive sites with amaing ant flow with ease of navigation. packed into the book’s 190 pages including Director by Howard Hall 3D graphics and the best dive locations in the Egyptian This guide starts at the beginning with the all those very valuable small tips that only Narrated by Johnny Depp and Red Sea including Ras Mohamed, The Brothers, Zabargad, considerations that surround the purchase come from working many years in the field. Kate Winslet Rocky Island, Daedelus, St John’s and Elphinstone. The guide of a camera and housing, then takes the From selecting your equipment, making a Score by Danny Elfman captures the dramatic walls, diverse and prolific marine life, reader through a natural progression of story board to topside shooting, travelling Producers: T. Myers, M. Hall glorious turtles, rays and sharks. www.divedestinations.co.uk chapters leading up to the last chapter, tips, setting up your gear and performing a Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures which addresses what you do with your fin- shoot with available light or setting up your Genre: Documentary ished masterpiece when you are ready to own lighting, to maintenance of equipment Release Date: March 3, 2006 distribute it. The nine other chapters that and editing and distribution… everything Loaded with breathtaking shots of lie in between could almost pass for a self you will need is here and then some. I don’t the underwater world designed study course textbook in underwater pho- quite know if I fully agree with the title of the specifically for the IMAX theater, DVD tography, or at least serve as a very handy book. Videography, it seems, as is the case Deep Sea 3D, is a spectacular reference. with u/w photography, requires a fair bit of underwater adventure from the Authored by the accomplished writer, diligence and dedication, so can it really filmmakers behind the first IMAX Return of the Plankton: videographer and commercial diver, Steve be made ‘easy’? In any case, semantics 3D film, Nascar, which grossed The Seasons Underwater Barsky, who is the main author, with fel- aside, this book on underwater digital video nearly US$23 million around the in Puget Sound DVD low dive professionals Lance Milbrand and certainly lowers the bar. ■ world. It is the first IMAX movie to Produced by Still Hope Mark Thurlow, decades of experience are www.hammerheadpress.com be co-narrated by Johnny Depp Productions and Kate Winslet with a score Price US$30.00 by award-winning composer Discover and identify creatures Danny Elfman (Spiderman, Men of the Pacific Northwest marine in Black, Chicago). Directed by ecosystems with this 27 minute world-renowned underwater cin- video and over 150 photo- ematographer, Howard Hall, the graphs of each creature in film will take you down below the the film, labeled with common ocean surface to swim with some name, scientific name, habitat amazing creatures ranging from and diet. Includes supplementa- the rainbow nudibranch to the ry study aids for instructional use. giant Pacific octupus. Witness store.nauiservicesgroup.com their often humorous, threatening or peculiar ways of survival. www.imax.com 83 X-RAY MAG : 9 : 2006 EDITORIAL FEATURES TRAVEL NEWS EQUIPMENT BOOKS SCIENCE & ECOLOGY EDUCATION PROFILES PORTFOLIO CLASSIFIED Sneed B Collards books for kids media on life and research in the seas Book Reviews Reviewed by Michael Arvedlund, PhD The Deep Sea Floor The American author Sneed B. Collard has written more than fifty Publisher: Charlesbridge books for young people, on subjects of the sea, animals and animals Publishing. MA, USA. 2003 in the sea and how life science researchers work. His books The Forest Hardcover: 32 Pages in the Clouds and Beaks! Were both named Teacher’s Choices by the Reading level: Ages 6-12 international Reading Association. In the spring of 2005, Sneed was Booklist wrote the following about awarded the prestigious Lud Browman Award from the Friends of the Collard’s book about the deep Fathoming The Ocean University of Montana library for his lifetime achievement in science sea: “One of the great frontiers of writing. Sneed is unique in his work by his research methods, which also scientific discovery in recent years The Discovery & Exploration of the Deep Sea ensures a very high level of quality in his books.