NATURAL RESOURCES UNDER THE SEA.``A Diver's Guide to Monterey County, California'' By Bruce Watkins, (California Diving News, $19.95) The Pacific Ocean off Monterey County is a feast for scuba divers, and Bruce Watkins' book is the menu. Covering 46 sites, his book tells you what you'll see, as well as providing access, entry, and hazard information. The 31 beach dive sites are rated from novice to expert, a useful feature, as some dives require getting past rocks and heavy surf. Dive sites are clearly illustrated by maps of each area. The book includes local highlights like squid diving, wrecks, nudibranchs, sea otters and diving offshore with sharks. The squid section tells you how to attract them with a light so you can see mating rituals. Watkins said the most exciting diving is offshore to see basking, blue, shortfin mako Noun 1. shortfin mako - very swift active bluish shark found worldwide in warm waters; important game fish Isurus oxyrhincus mako, mako shark - powerful mackerel shark of the Atlantic and Pacific and the occasional great white shark great white shark or white shark Large, aggressive shark (Carcharodon carcharias, family Lamnidae), considered the species most dangerous to humans. It is found in tropical and temperate regions of all oceans and is noted for its voracious appetite. . He advises against diving near large concentrations of shark food like seals and sea lions. Diving in Monterey is governed by a myriad of local access ordinances and marine regulations, which are well explained in the book. Some boat-accessible sites are included, but unfortunately no GPS coordinates are given. The author is a skilled underwater photographer, and this book is profusely pro·fuse adj. 1. Plentiful; copious. 2. Giving or given freely and abundantly; extravagant: were profuse in their compliments. illustrated with his brilliant color photographs. Get your tanks filled, get this book and head north for some great dives. - Bill Becher FISHING DOWN UNDER Paul Hogan
Paul Hogan AM (born October 8, 1939 in Lightning Ridge, New South Wales) is an Australian actor and comedian. is nowhere in sight, but Crocodile crocodile, large, carnivorous reptile of the order Crocodilia, found in tropical and subtropical regions. Crocodiles live in swamps or on river banks and catch their prey in the water. They have flattened bodies and tails, short legs, and powerful jaws. Dundee himself would approve of the Coarse Fishing Coarse fishing is an angling method, mostly popular throughout the United Kingdom and mainland Europe. The main target species for this type of angling include:
Fortunately, one of the first questions we had - what is coarse fishing? - was answered quickly. It's basically bait fishing, but with a 15th-century medieval British flavor to it. This style of fishing was popular with the land's common serfs, who weren't allowed to bring in trout and salmon ``which were felt to be too good for the commoners. They had to settle for fish whose flesh was considered too coarse for the table.'' In these parts, coarse species probably would include catfish catfish, common name applied to members of the freshwater fish families constituting the suborder Nematognathi. The catfish is related to the sucker and the minnow, and like them has a complex set of bones forming a sensitive hearing apparatus. , carp and Northern pike. In Australia, the coarse-fishing set catches roach, tench and English perch. And if you're still not really sure whether coarse fishing is for you, there's always ``The Complete Book of Coarse Fishing'' on sale. --What dreams may come: Purely for its peaceful name alone, check out www.fishdreams.com. There are lots of links to other sites and bass and walleye walleye, in medicine walleye: see strabismus. walleye, in zoology walleye or walleyed pike: see perch. tournament information, and the Fish Dreams online store has some nifty Christmas gift items. - Chris Cocoles CAPTION(S): photo, box Photo: (color) no caption (book: ``A Diver's Guide to Monterey County, California'') Box: TUNE IN |
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