The ocean is one of the last remaining wildernesses on our planet. It is also a wilderness where anyone can go. In this wilderness, we find animals that did not evolve along with humankind, and therefore allow a kind of proximity that terrestrial animals have instinctively learned to avoid. This book is about how my love for this wilderness awakened on my very first saltwater dive, and how it continues to grow with every dive I make.

This book is for those who love nature, love animals, and love adventure. It is for those who have an interest in the sea, or for those who have an interest in SCUBA diving, either because they are divers, or would like to be divers, or would just like to know what it is like to be a diver.
All the stories in this book are true, but they are not all typical dive stories.