Rod MacDonald - Force Z Shipwrecks of the South China Sea - Feb 8th 8pm @ DMYC

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Force Z Shipwrecks of the South China Sea - HMS Prince of Wales and Repulse
by Rod MacDonald
Friday Feb 8th (Doors open 7.00pm, talk starts at 8pm)
Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club, Co. Dublin (map here: http://goo.gl/maps/yVYrn)



Rod is a well known Scottish technical diver and diving author specialising in shipwreck - with 5 books to his name to date and two more on the way. He lives in Stonehaven, a small historic Scottish fishing town nestling in a sheltered bay just to the south of Aberdeen, a coastline littered with wartime wrecks.



After diving the scuttled German WWI High Seas Fleet wrecks at Scapa Flow - and falling in love with Orkney - he wrote his first book, 'Dive Scapa Flow' which was published by Mainstream, Edinburgh in 1990 and is now in its 4th edition with sales of more than 25000. A few years his next book, 'Dive Scotland's Greatest Wrecks' was published and is now in its 2nd edition.

After a break from writing to raise a family Rod got back into print in 2003 with 'Dive England's Greatest Wrecks' and then 'Into the Abyss: Diving to adventure in the Liquid World' which charted his diving career from novice through to deep trimix wreck diving.

His latest book The Darkness Below was released in October 2011 to critical acclaim. It follows on from Into the Abyss charting his progression from open circuit trimix diving to CCR mix diving.

Rod has been involved in the making of the Dive Scapa Flow, Truk Lagoon and Palau videos and has also featured in several TV programmes including Timewatch, The Death of the Battleship and Equinox, Lethal Seas, Maelstrom. He has written for most major dive magazines and newspapers on wreck diving. His scariest ever dive - the Corrywreckan Whirlpool, off Jura - the 3rd largest whirlpool in the world.



He is a keen big boat sailor and an RYA Powerboat Instructor.

His latest book, Great British Shipwrecks - A Personal Adventure covers in detail almost 40 of the major shipwrecks around the UK including HMS Pathfinder, the first Royal Navy warship sunk by torpedo during WWI, HMS Audacious, the first British battleship lost in WWI and the White Star liner Justicia.

If everything goes to plan, Rod will be launching a further book, Force Z Shipwrecks of the South China Sea, HMS Repulse & HMS Prince of Wales at OZTeK2013 in Australia in March 2013.


TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW FOR €5: https://www.eventelephant.com/rodmacdonald

More details here: http://forum.technicaldiving.ie/index.php/topic,4206.0.html

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